Love-Bombing the Online Community with Dance Moves

Love-Bombing the Online Community with Dance Moves

This online Fringe Festival project is creating an original dance from scratch over the course of 30 days with the help of Instagram and YouTube. Audience participation will provide the movement inspiration for the dance entitled Love Bomb Movement, which involves anyone and everyone willing to take part.

The premise is simple: record or photograph a movement selfie and post it on Instagram with the hashtag #LoveBombMovement. At the end of each week, a YouTube dance tutorial will demonstrate the movements sculpted into a learnable sequence. Four YouTube videos over the course of the season will build towards a complete dance at the conclusion of the Fringe Festival.

Brigid Costello, the choreographer behind the project, has been involved in the New Zealand Fringe Festival for ten years, but this is the first time she is directing a project that won’t be taking place in a theatre.

“It’s both exciting and a little nerve wracking to make a dance piece which doesn’t follow the usual process and rehearsal format of a live performance”, says Costello, “it will be interesting to see who gets involved and what shape the dance takes with input from a range of different people”.

Due to the online nature of Love Bomb Movement, audience posts may come from the local Wellington community, but may also be posted from around the country or from overseas.

Brigid has worked with both trained and untrained dancers in previous shows; including the multi award-winning 2015 Fringe hit Jingles - The Musical, and the controversial pop dance Gizza Hoon.

This project will explore the idea that everyone is a dancer, and can generate movement that is personally expressive.

“People just need a little reminder of how good it makes them feel”, Costello says. “Everyone who has a body can make interesting shapes and movements and I think it’s fun to be involved in the creation of something original”.

Audiences can watch the project unfold online and get involved from the 5th February until the the 5th March 2016.

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