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“Layer” is a dance / physical theatre work co-conceived by Stalker and Box of Birds artists : David Clarkson, Matt Hughes, Boris Bagattini, Margie Breen, Aku Kadogo, Andrew Bluff, composer Peter Kennard and dancers Katina Olsen ,Olympia Kotopoulos & Cloe Fournier.

This team has recently been joined by partners in the Netherlands : SHelfish Productions and WERC in Groningen.

“Layer” had its first development in November 2020, thanks to support from: Epic Games, The Australia Council, The City of Sydney, Brand X and the Prins Bernhard Fonds/ Cultuurmakers (Netherlands) .

 “Layer” dances the story of three woman, each alone and isolated with multiple cultural identities. Indigenous/ non-indigenous/ Australian/ European. They encounter multiple replications (or layers) of themselves in real, virtual, fragmented and augmented selves. It artistically explores notions of replication of self- identity, isolation, play and the pleasures and fears we stumble upon in our socially distanced COVID selves.

 “Layer” developed a number of technical innovations to allow the theatre work to be presented both live as well as online in 3D capture, simultaneously in the Netherlands and Australia.

Program Notes: from the November 2020 season.

Layer is a dance / physical theatre/ filmic work co-conceived by Box of Bird artists (Australia) and dancers Katina Olsen, Cloe Fournier and Olympia Kotopoulos . This team has recently been joined by international partners from Groningen in the Netherlands : Shelfish Productions and WERC. Layer dances the story of three woman, each alone and isolated with multiple cultural identities. Indigenous/ non-indigenous/ Australian/ European. They encounter multiple replications (or layers) of themselves in real, virtual, fragmented and augmented realities. Layer explores notions of replication of self- identity, and the pleasures and fears we stumble upon in our socially distanced COVID selves. Layer will be filmed with 3D LIDAR cameras and will blend live 3D capture with prerecorded volumetric film. The three dancers ,two in Australia , one in the Netherlands, will dance together in an interactive filmic 3D space that is both live, projected, virtual and screen based. www.boxofbirds.net