Event information
Darkroom Contemporary Dance Theatre presents its new full-length work, Autoplay.
Staged in a secret location in central Cape Town, patrons are invited into a multi-faceted arena where the performance reimagines itself for every audience. The initial meeting point for patrons is the fountain on Longkloof Square, within Longkloof Studios.
This hybrid work blends dance, live art performance, sound installation, and digital art to bring dance theatre to a range of alternate dimensions. Autoplay is a surreal encounter between human and machine, conjuring a moving landscape that ebbs, shifts, and transforms as it frames the experience, presenting a breathtaking and multi-discipline production.
In this immersive performance, the traditional notions of identity and autonomy in an era where our lives have become intricately woven into the fabric of a digital landscape are challenged.
The performance features a new original score by renowned music artists Brydon Bolton (Benguela) and Njabulo Phungula, with vocalist Inge Beckmann (Lark, Beast).
Combining organic and manufactured soundscapes, the score fuses digital and analogue processing which invites the audience into this surreal game, while experimenting with the viewers' perception.
