At the core of the project aurore is interdisciplinary collaboration, between media artist and imaginary scientist Lucy H.G. from Los Angeles, choreographer Emma Nordanfors from Copenhagen and dancer Carolina Bäckman, also from Copenhagen.

Finding Aurora is an experimental stage project combining choreography and new media. The theme for this work is duality – as in double life, double truth, double reality. Our aim is to present the duality inherent in human nature by staging the same physical situations/scenes from different points of view, thereby creating a “multi-experience” of the here-and-now.

We will use the two following quotes as a springboard into the project’s theme:

He lived a double life. Did this make him a liar? He did not feel like a liar. He was a man with two truths. (Iris Murdoch)

In the end everything will be found to be true about everybody – the saint and the villain the same. (Lawrence Durrell)

The working point for our conceptual and physical research is the intersection of reality and representation. Physical expression by the dancer will take place in real time and space as well as in pre-recorded and life-feed video images.  Audience interaction, via hands-on interactive tools, further expands and shifts perspective.  The idea and physicality of reality is manipulated, and representation becomes malleable. In its staging aurore will be a cross between a performance and an installation. The audience is active; viewers can walk around in the space and physically interact with the performance, effectually playing with reality.

Finding Aurora premiered in Tanzfabrik, Berlin as an open rehearsal and will be performed at the Noodle Factory in the United States and at Electrofringe in Australia.  The interactive performance will also be a featured presentation at the Milkbar 2008 Live Film Festival in San Francisco.  In conjunction with performances we will be giving hands-on workshops in interactive media and movement and multimedia collaboration with performance arts.

Finding Aurora is supported by the Danish Art Council.

The duration of the performance is estimated between forty and fifty minutes.