To open the show, an astonishing 3D film with vividly contrasting chapters in which movement and setting transport the viewer into imagined and hybrid worlds.
For the second part, a live performance is captured by multiple cameras onstage; the footage mixed and projected onto a translucent screen, offering various perspectives of the crisp, intricate and innovative choreography.
An ambitious work by choreographic duo Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener and pioneering video artist Charles Atlas – all past collaborators of Merce Cunningham Dance Company – Tesseract is inspired by science fiction and time travel. Experimental in form and technique, it is rich in psychedelic, potent, disorientating and hypnotic images.
Presented by the Barbican. Tesseract (3D film) was commissioned and produced by EMPAC/Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and co-commissioned by Triangle France. Tesseract (live performance) was co-commissioned by EMPAC, Walker Art Center, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, On the Boards and Brooklyn Academy of Music
Made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W Mellon Foundation. Developed, in part, through residencies at EMPAC, The Watermill Center and Walker Art Center
