Trophy

Jasmine Jawato in Monsters section at Human Resources LA
Image by Taso Papadakis

Trophy

Kevin Le's solo in Trophy at Human Resources LA
Image by Taso Papadakis

Trophy

Trophy is an immersive dance-theater project from choreographer Kevin Williamson, experimental composer Jeepneys and video artist Cari Ann Shim Sham*. Created and made adaptable for white box spaces, this 360 degree world of fractured landscapes and psychedelic sounds follows the pursuits of three millenial dancers in a mediatized social world. In the beginning, the dancers splinter fluid movements into still frames, interrogating social media personas with humor and pathos. But as the dance unfolds and quotidian life dissolves into fragments of stop-n-go selfies, our protagonists are forced to contend with a reality governed by media's authority, pervasive isolation, and a gnawing pressure to exhibit their “success”. Shim Sham* integrates manipulations of digital imagery into a live performance of video amongst body through multiple projectors and Jeepneys provides an aural soundscape of odd rhythms and surrealist sounds. Combined with the choreography, the elements highlight a disjointed, but virtuosic display of contemporary bodies in flux with desire, technology, time, and space.

Image by Cari Ann Shim Sham*