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13/06/2025

We had a blast performing Dance Plague with Flanker Origami on UpStage from Cologne, Germany, on the occasion of the International Federation of Theatre Research (IFTR) 2025 conference.🙂

Thanks to the UpStage team and audiences for joining us on another ride of our dopamine dressed danced promenade…

Stay tuned!🩷

07/03/2025

Delighted to share our participation in the programme of ‘And now…! on the UpStage online venue for live performances, which in 2024 celebrated 20 years and was recently revamped to host contemporary, digital and experimental performance work to a global audience.

🔸When: Saturday 8th March 2025, 5-7pm (UK time)
🔸UpStage - link to access the live online event and the performances in the webpage below.

There will be a book launch of the Mobilise/Demobilise project led by the co-founder of UpStage Helen Varley Jamieson, an introduction by Dutch performance artist Annie Abrahams and three cyberformances:

🔹Dance Plague by Organic Theatre
🔹The Backyard of Weird Creatures by Daniela Souza, Natália Macedo and Karina Senise; 🔹Repose by Vicki Smith and collaborators.

8 March is also International Women’s Day, and this event celebrates women’s creativity and women’s engagement in open source software development. UpStage was initiated by and has always been led by women, the platform’s development team is currently led by a woman, and most of the artists in these performances are women.

🗣️ This is a global, free of charge event and you can find your local time on the webpage below.

Looking forward to seeing you there!🫶🫶🫶🫶

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"And Now ... !" we present four cyberformances and the Mobilise/Demobilise book, online and at Cultivation.Space in Berlin, on Saturday 8 March 2025.

27/02/2025

On Saturday 8th March "Dance Plague" is live-streamed on UpStage in the ‘And Now…’ series of digital performances celebrating twenty years of this unique online venue!

Dance Plague is Organic Theatre’s dopamine dressed danced promenade devised and performed between physical and digital stages in collaboration with the amazing dancers of Damn Fine Dance, Pam Woods and Phil Smith.

Captured as a moving selfie through the ‘banal technology’ of a smartphone at Wilton’s Music Hall and at the Barbican Centre in London, the promenade is performed by two extravagant characters – Flanker Origami – coming from a world of digital performance, who, as Smith writes, are trapped in ‘an ontological performance of characters in the face of existential threat; attempting to exist in fiction, emerging from a crisis of liveness in the backwash of a global epidemic’.

They are accompanied by the Interlopers (Damn Fine Dance and Pam Woods), a group of ‘followers’ who assemble themselves with the pulse and rhythms of the dance, as it drifts within the private and public spaces of cultural and theatrical sites.

Stay tuned👀

16/06/2024

Coming soon live online on UpStage⭐️

24/05/2024

London - Dance Plague with Flanker Origami at Wilton’s Music Hall and the Barbican in collaboration with Damn Fine Dance, Pam Woods and Phil Smith

22/05/2024

Thrilled to begin working this week on Dance Plague with Flanker Origami in London, starting in the atmospheric environments of Wilton’s Music Hall - ‘the most important surviving early music hall to be seen anywhere with an outstanding architectural and archaeological significance’.

So grateful for all the amazing collaborations and wonderful people who are making this project possible. Particularly grateful to Damn Fine Dance, Pam Woods, Phil Smith, Chiara Menozzi, Zena Sayers and Ariane Oiticica.

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Dance Plague with Flanker Origami - a dopamine dressed danced promenade - is a hybrid project by Organic Theatre at the intersection of material and immaterial performance-assemblages, which explores new and alternative ways of forming creative alliances and consortia for the regeneration of the arts post-pandemic.

Dance Plague will be presented at PSi #29 ASSEMBLE in hosted by Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in partnership with LIFT (London International Festival of Theatre) in June 2024.

© 2024 Organic Theatre. All rights reserved.

01/02/2024

30/08/2023

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟CLOSING STAGES is a walking performance/assemblage by Organictheatre edited into a short film for social media, which celebrates the joy in the knowledge that everything is temporary while capturing the fading moments of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 in a city saturated with the ephemerality of 3,500 performance acts.

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Flanker, a character from a digital performance in search of a physical stage, assembles to the posters of Fringe performers, and to what remains of their creations as a magnified spectacle in the streets.




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29/08/2023

Stills from Closing Stages, a short film for social media by Organic Theatre celebrating the closing stages of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 through the Japanese feeling of 'Setsunai', which implies something once bright, now faded, and the joy in the knowledge that everything is temporary. COMING SOON 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟FlankerFringe 2023🤩

28/08/2023

Closing Stages is coming soon ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

While you are waiting, we have prepared some FlankerFringe moments for you to enjoy🤩

Stay tuned…🫠

16/05/2023

Today rehearsing the route for Dance Plague with Flanker Origami in costume.

Starting tomorrow, Wednesday 17th at 1.30pm (UK time) live-streaming from Edinburgh’s theatres and streets.

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Come online and join the dance promenade on Facebook Live🤩

Dance Plague with Flanker Origami is a global dopamine dressed, social media danced promenade developed in collaboration with writer, site-specific artist and mythogeographer Phil Smith.

© 2022 Organic Theatre