Arcadia

PREMIERE - October 2025 Schwankhalle, Bremen, Germany

CHOREOGRAPHY, DESIGN AND LIGHTING - Matthew William Robinson

CHOREOGRAPHIC ASSISTANT - Mario Manara

DANCERS - Of Curious Nature

Athletic bodies move in glaring artificial light on a catwalk of artificial turf. Boundaries between reality and fiction blur, and where perfection reigns, images optimise, transforming obsessively. Myths emerge and, reinterpreted, shape a shimmering hyperreality.

As they glitch between fantasy and reality the simulated setting returns them to their feeling body. The weight of bones, the rush of blood, the feeling of another persons skin remind them of something lost in their search for Arcadia.