Watch iT!

Recorded at the CND 8 June 2012, during Danse Hiphop Tanz Festival 2012

Watch iT! is a multi-media dance odyssey which examines the relationship between man and his television and told with a striking mix of dance, theatre, interactive film and animation. Covering the banal to the surreal, it touches on aspects of how TV affects us, and the situations where it can take on more than an inanimate form. Ultimately, it is an intimate social comment about our ever growing dependence on technology.
The story follows one man’s love/hate relationship with his TV as we stumble out of the living room and down the cathode ray tunnel. A TV wonderland ensues with interactive projections, televisions that talk back and ones that want to dance. Watch iT! incorporates a range of styles in one piece, undulating from frenetic sparks of energy to more soft sincere moments. It is black comedy combined with social commentary, ultimately leaving the audience to ponder how they view their own little box in the corner…

Premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2009 to great success, Watch iT! was subsequently toured, alongside Such a Bloke, in 2010 with support from Creative Scotland.

Work showed in June 2012 at the French festival “Danse Hiphop Tanz”, in Pantin.

Updating: October 2012