HertZ, the new creation by Sidney Leoni, is set in a highly porous environment saturated by light and sound phenomena. This region is permeated by a parallel world in which unexpected practical strategies for both sonic and visual orientation become necessary to navigation. In near darkness, the theater space amplifies the emerging micro-ecosystems heightening the relations between sound, light and humans; all barely visible, yet haptically and audibly perceptible. Created together with the artists Frédéric Alstadt, Kjetil Brandsdal, Jan Fedinger, Martin Lervik, Stina Nyberg, Morten J. Olsen, Jonathan Saldanha and Sandy Williams, HertZ is a hybrid choreography of sound and light in which any physical manifestations are temporary and unforeseeable; all invariably converging with the environment’s immersive forces.
Undertone is a choreography that focuses on the potentials of sensory perception of the audience. Stemming from the interest to challenge spectatorship and destabilize the convention of watching performance, Undertone invites the audience to participate in an orchestration of fictional spaces. The performance prioritizes mechanisms of perception other than vision by proposing an immersive experience of different kinds of stimuli. In Undertone, the body of the audience members is considered in all its potentiality to sense and navigate within an environment composed of a large spectrum of sensory movements such as tastes, sounds, smells, temperature fluctuations, touches, and ephemeral scenographies.
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