COMMIT! an interactive dance performance.
Date: Thursday, June 12th at 7pm ET
Location: Lindemann Performing Arts Center
Tickets are Free and Open to the Public!
Q&A the following day on Friday, June 13th at 11:45am.
COMMIT! is an interactive performance in which a performer (Ladenheim) executes hundreds of dramatic falls in an hour, while the audience uses a web app to vote on whether they believe the performer has truly committed. After rounds of falling, an avatar replica of Ladenheim reads the audience's feedback aloud, while the live performer adjusts their actions in response. Throughout, motion capture and custom sensors collect data on each fall in an attempt to discover (and justify) the most "committed" fall there is.
Using gamified interactions to control a durational performance, COMMIT! explores the shifting boundaries between technological control and societal expectations. Through the performer’s repeated attempts to "commit," the piece highlights tensions between physical effort and digital representation, as well as the audience’s role in shaping and judging the performer’s actions. In this way, COMMIT! critiques societal pressures to demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and perfection. The work emphasizes the inexact and often reductive nature of data collection and digital mediation, inviting reflection on how technology distorts and constrains identity and agency.
COMMIT! is led by Kate Ladenheim, and made in collaboration with media artist Mollye Bendell and production technician Timothy Kelly.
COMMIT! is commissioned by the Brown Arts Institute and The Conference for Research on Choreographic Interfaces (CRCI) at Brown University.
This performance is included in registration to The Conference for Research on Choreographic Interfaces. For information and tickets to the conference, click here.