“MEƎM: A STORY BALLET ABOUT THE INTERNET” by Ryan McNamara (2015)

Ryan McNamara’s MEƎM was an experiment in expanded dance and theatre as a Performa commission at the Kitchen, NYC.  The audience was seated in chairs outfitted with casters which were rolled around different pockets of the theatre in a choreographed fashion, where they were forced to be incredibly close to solo or more complex impromptu and amateurish dance performances.  In doing so it attempts to evoke and mimic the experience one has of the internet as a fragmented, simultaneous and endlessly shifting, linked performative experience.  The audience is forced into close proximity with a variety of choreographed dances that reference the online culture of a person performing for a camera, essentially a real time version of surfing through Youtube.

YouTube / Performa – via Iframely