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By Cora Kangas The stage is dark, abnormally so for the beginning of a dance show. Then the lights come on in the form of phone lights, aided by minimal stage lighting. The dancers look down like people do on The University of Alabama’s campus on any given Friday, phone in hand, not paying attention to the world — even though they are halfway across it, in Scotland. Yonder Contemporary Dance Company, a student dance group from UA’s campus, explores themes of technological distractions in today’s society through a carefully-choreographed routine presented across the globe. The interactive performance featured dancers performing different scenes, all while drawn to their phone. The relationships people have with technology became the central focus for dancers and audience members, who were encouraged to use their phones during the performance. “[IRL found the] sweet spot between interactivity, playfulness and profundity,” said critic Jim Ralley in his four-star review on BroadwayBaby.com. “...The interplay between focus and distraction, togetherness and separation, was neatly executed time and time again.” Students choreographed the entirety of IRL. Drew Martin, a junior studying dance and chemical engineering, spent countless hours with his team perfecting the theme, storyline and steps. “I started to question how much I used my phone and observed how much other people were,” Martin said. “I also began to notice how easy it is to be sucked into trends because of social media and the internet.” When deciding what to do for the choreography, he wanted to show how much easier it is to be controlled by trends because of social media. These ideas then had to be translated into a show. But communication varies in all settings — no two people are going to hear or say something the same way. So in order to make the dances and the show flow, everyone had to be understanding of everyone else. “Everyone had to collaborate on how to make clear transitions,” Martin said. Dancer Maddie Arancibia, a student at The University of Alabama, performed in IRL. She explained that the team worked with two different choreographers: one who wanted to start from nothing and see how the dance developed, while the other had a set vision from the start. “Both let us create our own phrases and incorporate our own ideas,” Arancibia said. “The entire time, it just felt like an open space to be creative.” Martin and Kendra Giles, a UA dance major, both danced in the show and had a similar experience working with the choreographers. They said the pieces were a collaborative effort while retaining the original ideas from the choreographers, making the show more personal. “There were no boundaries to what we could make,” Giles said. Yonder Contemporary Dance Company took this show around the South, from Alabama, Tennessee, and Georgia, then, across the Atlantic to Edinburgh, Scotland. They used audience feedback to mold the show so that when they went to Scotland, it would be as near to perfect as possible. “This offered a very personal experience for both the performers and the audience, since no two shows were exactly the same,” Giles said. <strong>Alice</strong> Spring 2019 85
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