At Large: The Summary
Pursuing the position of contemporary dance in the world at large, questions of whose dance, which contemporary, and what world come to the fore. The process and products of At Large investigate the existing and potential capacities of dance in a society of increased and horizontal information accessibility and a contemporary culture of over-productivity. When the world is a stage, At Large opens up the agency and perspective of the dancemaker by working in several media, platforms of visibility, and modes of productivity to chart and expand the various territories of dance today.
In collaboration with performing artists Femke Gyselinck and Manon Santkin, videast Inneke Van Waeyenberghe, composer Gerald Kurdian, fashion designer Ada Rajszys, and various infiltrators throughout the process, Eleanor Bauer hosts
At Large, a world inhabited by several perspectives and a field of research materialized in several components.
At Large is a book, a song, a screensaver, a new dance fad, and a series of videos documenting existing social dance fads and phenomena, screened in the lobbies of the live performance.
The live performance is a central node in a sprawling web of observation and production, the site of convergence at which the performers implicate themselves in the questions posed by At Large. Sliding between points of interest, connecting disparate frames of reference, transgressing spheres of relevance, the performers negotiate the persistent tropes of dance as art, entertainment, street culture, pleasure, communication, abstraction, identification, and self-expression. At Large confronts these recombinant histories in order to ask where we stand today, and of course, where to move next.