video game + costume party + music and dance performance + installation built around the desire to revisit how communities gather to play music, dance and tell stories
Digital Folk is an interdisciplinary collaboration between dance artist James Gnam, visual artist Natalie Purschwitz, lighting designer James Proudfoot and 10 dance artists. It explores a generation’s approach to identity, physicality, social dance and performance and lives as a scale model built out of an in-between world that is not quite a home and not quite a theatre. It’s where desire is focused through the lens of video game culture to create an irreverent and interactive world of virtual and physical community, feedback and paradox.
Writing about
SFU Woodward’s Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre
Credits
Concept, creative direction
James GnamScenography, costume design
Natalie PurschwitzLighting design
James ProudfootSound design
Kevin LegereChoreography, performance
Shion Carter, Rachel Helten, Natalie LeFebvre Gnam, James Gnam, Kayla DeVos, Vanessa Goodman, Rachel Maddock, Lexi Vajda, Lorenz SantosProducer, media relations
Natalie LeFebvre GnamAssociate producer
Kayla DevosLighting adaptation, stage management
Jonathan KimSet build
Stuart SprouleSet design assistant
Candy WangGraphic design
Ahmed Khalil & Deanna Peters/Mutable SubjectPast collaborators
Clare Twiddy, Siobhan Sloane-Seale, Rob Abubo, Walter Kubanek, Jane Osborne, Dario Dinuzzi, Bevin Poole Leinweber, Diego Romero, Hannah Jackson, Rachel Silver, Kim PloughReviews
Video
