HEAT
Autoplay
Thu, 26 Sept
|Cape Town
Autoplay is a new full-length hybrid work, combining dance, live performance, sound, and digital art. It is staged in an installation setting created especially for this work at the Longkloof Studios. It is created by Louise Coetzer, who will meet HEAT Culture Club members before the performance.
Time & Location
26 Sept 2024, 19:20 – 21:00
Cape Town, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa
About the event
Autoplay is staged in a secret location in central Cape Town, patrons are invited into a multi-faceted arena where the performance reimagines itself for every audience. The initial meeting point for patrons will be the fountain on Longkloof Square, within Longkloof Studios.
This hybrid work blends dance, Live Art performance, sound installation and digital art. autoplay is a surreal encounter between human and machine. The performance conjures a moving landscape that ebbs, shifts and transforms as it frames the experience, presenting a breathtaking and multi-discipline production, with the calibre for which Darkroom Contemporary have become renowned. The performance features a new original score by renowned music artists Brydon Bolton (Benguela) and Njabulo Phungula, with vocalist Inge Beckmann (Lark, Beast). Choreography, direction and set design are by Louise Coetzer. autoplay is performed by Bronwyn Craddock, Darion Adams, Vuyelwa Phota and Gabrielle Fairhead.
HEAT Culture Club members will gain insight into the making and motivations behind this extraordinary new work before we see it when we meet its creator, Louise Coetzer at the fountain at 7.20pm.Meet at La Parade on Kloof Street for a post-performance get together.
Ample secure undercover parking is available at Longkloof Studios.