CIVIC MIMIC explores the gathering of people in urban and public spaces, the conditions of belonging and exclusion, ownership and copia. Six individual dancers dressed in white uniform designed by Alexandra Bertaut perform the longstanding discourse on imitation.
CIVIC MIMIC situates the body on the intersection between the individual and the collective. It enacts bodies in their social relation, frustrating the division between spectator and performer in a conditional, transactional space. Within the interdepending systems of crowd, material and gesture the performers negotiate the resulting unpredictable reciprocity.
Generated by Siegal’s choreographic inquiry, If/Then Methodology, a game-based syntactical and notational system by which performers thematize the act of choice, CIVIC MIMIC seeks to bring the public into a shared attitude of the conditional.
