Cycles is a live and digital performance and VR experience that explores how gendered behaviours are reinforced through habitual, bodily practices. Set around the dining table, a space where patriarchal norms are deeply embedded, it uses dance and immersive technology to expose the invisible structures of control that shape identity. The bodies we bring into virtual spaces carry with them the rules of the material world, influencing how we move and relate. By working with immersive tools, Cycles highlights the need for new technologies to critically address the internalised systems they risk replicating and to countermand their power. The work is created in collaboration with choreographer and dancer Emma Poyer and sound artist Zlata Mechetina.
Ventcislava Nekova
Ventcislava Nekova is an interdisciplinary artist and movement director working across dance, immersive technology, and digital storytelling. During her MA in Digital Direction at the Royal College of Art, her practice focused on how bodies navigate systems of control, using choreographic language to expose power structures in digital and physical space. She has directed immersive works including Echoes of Connection at Shoreditch Arts Centre and contributed movement to theatre, music videos, and live performance. Her latest work, Cycles, created with choreographer Emma Poyer, will be shown at Frameless Gallery in London. Through her work, she reimagines how identity and environment evolve through technologically mediated movement.
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