Darkroom Contemporary Dance Theatre, in partnership with the South African State Theatre, DOCK ART and Future Storytelling Lab, presents e.ID: A Fugue, a new interdisciplinary performance by South African choreographer Louise Coetzer.
e.ID: A Fugue inhabits a suspended reality.
This hybrid performance unfolds as a choreographic meditation on identity, mortality and existence within an increasingly digitised world.
We are living between worlds: between the physical and the digital, the inherited and the constructed, the human and something not yet fully defined. This tension between the tangible - flesh, bone, DNA, memory, instinct - and an endlessly reproducible self is echoed through the work's physical performance, score, live and interactive structures.
Structured as a fugue, e.ID: traces a way of being that is simultaneously flesh and data, instinct and algorithm, contained, suspended and continuously circling within systems it cannot fully perceive. e.ID: dwells within the invisible currents that increasingly shape the world we inhabit, lingering on impermanence.
Created and directed by Louise Coetzer, the production features an original score by South African composers Njabulo Phungula and Inge Beckmann, alongside German composers Heidrun Schramm and Nicolas Wiese, under the musical direction of Brydon Bolton. The production integrates responsive scenography developed in collaboration with Methodlab, with technical direction by Oscar O’Ryan.
Presented in partnership with the South African State Theatre, DOCK ART and Future Storytelling Lab, and performed by the award-winning South African company Darkroom Contemporary Dance Theatre.
e.ID: A Fugue is supported by the National Lotteries Commission of South Africa, the National Arts Council of South Africa, The Christian Ludolph Marais Trust, the Goethe-Institut, DOCK ART (DE), and Future Storytelling Lab (NL).
Performance Schedule:
* 19 August: 19H00 (Opening Night)
* 20 August: 11H00 followed by an Artist Talk
* 21 August: 19H00
* 22 August: 15H00 & 19H00
* 23 August: 15H00
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