Organic Theatre presents “Dance Plague with Flanker Origami”
– A Dopamine Dressed Danced Promenade
Friday 13 June 2025, 12:45 CET
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Coming to you this time from Cologne, Germany, where the intrepid duo of Organic Theatre are at the International Federation of Theatre Research conference.
Dance Plague with Flanker Origami is a dopamine dressed danced promenade devised and performed between physical and digital stages by UK-based Organic Theatre, in collaboration with Damn Fine Dance, Pam Woods and Phil Smith.
Captured as a moving selfie through the ‘banal technology’ of a smartphone at Wilton’s Music Hall and at the Barbican Centre in London, the promenade is performed by two extravagant characters – Flanker Origami – coming from a world of digital performance, who are trapped in ‘an ontological performance of characters in the face of existential threat; attempting to exist in fiction, emerging from a crisis of liveness in the backwash of a global epidemic’ (Smith 2023).
They are accompanied by the Interlopers (Damn Fine Dance and Pam Woods), a group of ‘followers’ who assemble themselves with the pulse and rhythms of the dance, as it drifts within the private and public spaces of cultural and theatrical sites.
