Rebecca Evans has created digital dance experiences since 2014 in the UK and abroad with her company Pell Ensemble. Her work uses interactive and immersive technologies combined with dance. Examples of this have looked like audiences on tablets changing the dance, sound, and projection on stage (Upload/Unplug 2017-19), spatial interactive sound and movement work in the round (800 Lifetimes 2021) and live streamed motion capture in augmented reality headset experiences (Hinterlands 2023). Spanning the wide spectrum of interactivity, Rebecca’s practice is a continued exploration of the varied forms digital dance can take. She currently is exploring how digital and movement offers ways to appreciate our mutual dependency as part of a human, environmental and technological ecology to speculate on new futures and ways of being. This is often done through dystopian/utopian worlds that play with time underpinned by a neurodiverse perspective considering different intelligences and ways of sensing. She brings her experience as an embodied practitioner to deploy choreography as a technology within interdisciplinary digital spaces to more deeply consider the interactive potential of performer/participant/digital elements spatially and narratively. She is currently a Studio Wayne McGregor Resident 6 artist, a 2018/2019 Studio Wayne McGregor Questlab Network artist and a The BENCH fellow in 2016/2017. Rebecca recently completed her MA in Virtual and Extended Realities at UWE Bristol (Jan 2023-Dec 2023). Her work has been commissioned by 2Faced Dance, Wilton’s Strike, Spontaneous Combustion Festival, The Vaults, Athens Digital Arts Festival, Art*VR, Digital Bodies Festival, Bedford Creative Arts, DanceEast and London Borough of Culture. She has been a visiting lecturer at University of Bedfordshire, Bath Spa University and University of Bristol.
Bodies of Knowledge
Mocap Dance Practice and Telematic Performance
In Conversation