Choreografie
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Arcadia (Mythology: Idyllic place of beauty and harmony)
Matthew William Robinson
On the edge of what might be a sports field, athletic bodies move in glaring, artificial light as if on a catwalk. Everyone seems absorbed in their own self-expression. And although they are in the same space, they have little to do with each other, serving more as a social backdrop for one another. A strange emptiness spreads.
With the title Arcadia, choreographer Matthew William Robinson refers to a place of longing that everyone strives for, but whose fulfilment remains unattainable. He relates this to the artificially generated images of perfection in a digital present—today’s ideals that drive us. Together with Of Curious Nature,
he looks at the human, narcissistic circling around one’s own image, reproduced a thousand times on social media.
The Choreographic images refer to the obsessive scrolling through the constructed worlds of digital self-staging. Arcadia thus examines the media-amplified variant of an age-old human dilemma: wishing for a beautiful, ideal new world and losing touch with the present.
