Robin Jonsson 2021

Alone together

Virtual exclusivity that fascinates

It is not the first time that Dansnät Sverige has the great honour to tour Robin Jonsson’s unique performing art. The public had the opportunity to meet his TV- game inspired dance work as early as 2010, and ten years later he visited Swedish towns in the company of his adorable robot Alex. This time we will meet him digitally, through a pair of VR-spectacles, completely unlimited by our own reality.

Recurring themes in Robin Jonsson’s work are senses, movements and popular culture. He has, throughout his career, been focused on the relationship between humans and machines as well as digital developments, and how to include this into performing art scenes. He creates works that are stable, intuitive and innovative and are both amazing and fascinating.

With Alone Together tackles Robin Jonsson Virtual Reality in order to develop a new live format. With cutting-edge technology and with hard-to-beat ingenuity, Jonsson expands a virtual stage space with unreserved possibilities.

Alone Together is an attempt to transfer what is essential in performing arts – presence, intimacy and exclusivity – to the digital environment. Online, with interactive tools and in real time the public gets the opportunity to experience and co-create dance art in the digital world’s almost infinite capacity.

Robin Jonsson

Choreographer

Robin Jonsson has, since his degree at P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels 2008, created and toured number of works. Several of his works were created during his studies and continued to have a life afterwards, among them I Believe I Can see the future, a piece toured by Dansnät Sverige 2010. The work was based on virtual characters and TV-games, which is a recurring theme in Jonsson’s art. A common denominator for all of Robin’s work, earlier as well as later, are the deconstruction of how the human body is represented artificially. During number of years Robin has focused his work on human-shaped robots and what they can add to the performing arts field.

Credits

Concept and choreography: Robin Jonsson
Created and performed by: Robert Malmborg and Anika Edström Kawaji
Music and sound: Julia Giertz and William Rickman
Artistic advisor: Ebba Petren
Producers: Terry Johnson and Sara Bergsmark
Technician: Angela X
VR-development: Dyno Robotics
Origin Photos: Lars Nissen, geralt (pixabay)
Photo montage: Dansnät Sverige
Co-produced by: Dansnät Sverige and Norrlandsoperan
With support by: The City of Stockholm and The Swedish Arts Council

Toured with Dansnät Sverige autumn 2021