Glimmer

As you stroll down the street, just after twilight, your eye is caught by a wash of colour inside an inconspicuous window. Behind the glass, a figure is consumed by other-worldly visions. She moves through landscapes both real and imagined, natural and digital, future meets present, together while alone.

Glimmer is a new dance installation that peeks inside an alternate future-reality, through an embodied reckoning with our physical and virtual selves. Using cutting edge AI technology, dance and music, Glimmer asks; how do we embrace virtual landscapes and digital lives while holding sacred our beautiful, human idiosyncrasies?

Directed by Rachel Ní Bhraonáin & Robyn Byrne

Choreographed in collaboration with Róisín Harten

Dancer: Róisín Harten

Composer & Sound Designer: Robbie Kitt

Creative Producer: Tilly Taylor

Production Manager: Owen Clarke

In collaboration with Algorithm

Art Director: Conor Keogh

Production Coordinator: Molly McAvoy

Screen Install: Lewis Byrne

Screen Technician: Fergus O’Hagan

Digital Companion Software Developer: James Blair

Image credit: Kyle Sven

Supported by: Dublin Theatre Festival’s Futures Fund, Carlow Arts Festival’s Wedge Fund, Live Collision.

With thanks to Ciara Allen, Veronica Foo, Molly O’Cathain, Lucy Dawson, Shane Vaughan, Caitríona Giblin, Sorcha Ní Fhloinn, Claudia Lamantea, Conor Burnell, Anthony Hanley, Gareth Byrne, Kyle Sven, Filmbase, Mullingar Arts Centre, Spraoi Studios and the team at Dublin Theatre Festival