Photos by Elyse Mertz. Collage by Alex Rodabaugh.
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Tunnel Vision Splintering is a practice of straddling our virtual and real selves. In this movement workshop facilitated by 2024 Artist-in-Residence Alex Rodabaugh, participants will use handheld devices to pilot virtual versions of themselves while collectively engaging their physical bodies together in improvisational movement scores. It is a precarious practice of splintering into two places at the same time, engaging in both selves as equally as we can manage.
Your virtual self may take any form that is most comfortable or interesting to you, including but not limited to: a video game character on a hand-held gaming device, a live social media stream interacting with chat, posting and commenting on social media, video chatting with a friend, playing a smartphone game that requires constant attention, or anything else that you’d like to personally explore. Augmented Reality headsets are okay as long as you can see the people and space around you.
The movement scores will consist of basic movement instructions that are open to interpretation while constantly in motion: moving from standing height to floor height while turning in a circle, pretending you are under water, pretending you are moving through jello, staying connected with a partner by touching elbows, and more that will be devised together at the start of the practice.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Alex Rodabaugh is a choreographer, dancer, and performer from Lima, OH (Shawnee territory), based in NYC (Lenapehoking). Alex's work has been shown at Movement Research at the Judson Church, Draftwork at Danspace Project, Double Plus at Gibney, PRELUDE, American Realness, and Dance and Process at The Kitchen. Alex most recently performed in Rebecca Patek’s Tough Titties. Alex has performed in works by artists such as Moriah Evans, Simone Forti, Tess Dworman, Miguel Gutierrez, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Doug LeCours, Derek Smith, and Bailey Williams, among others, including two Bessie Award-winning performances. Alex is also a Treasurer/Co-Founder of Dance Artists’ National Collective and was a 2024 Artist-in-Residence at CPR – Center for Performance Research. www.alexrodabaugh.work.