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 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.

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.

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.

CREDITS

Initiated and Proposed by Eleanor Bauer
Created and Performed by Eleanor Bauer, Femke Gyselinck, Manon Santkin
Video: Inneke Van Waeyenberghe
Lighting Design: Peter Fol
Costume Design: Ada Rajszys
Original Music: Gerald Kurdian & Board of Dance

Production: Good Move vzw, Charlotte Vandevyver
Coproduction: Dance Theater Workshop, Hebbel Am Ufer (HAU), Kunstencentrum BUDA, Monty, PACT Zollverein, Vooruit, WorkSpaceBrussels, the DÉPARTS network. Public support from the Flemish Community and the Flemish Commission Brussel.

Extra Thanks: Cherelyn Lavagnino and the NYU Tisch Dance department, Peter Lenaerts, Thibault Lac, and Blair.

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