Nightmares. Human-data. Drowning worlds.

TADRA, and other visions is a multi-disciplinary performance work that is located within a collision of multiple futures, blurring the edges and choices between our dreams and nightmares. TADRA, and other visions follows two characters bcoming descendants of mutation, as they wrestle with the digital prophecies of an unstable future for Te Moana Nui a Kiwa (South Pacific). Using real-time motion capture, animation and dance, TADRA, and other visions shapeshifts into different creatures and environments as it contemplates the impending reality of translating land, water, people, relationships and their stories into globally accessible data-banks.

TADRA, and other visions holds a process of world-building and technological interrogation. This work utilises motion capture technology to inhabit virtual creatures and environments, in the process of enhancing and abstracting bodily expression in a live space.

TADRA, and other visions is a show-in-development between core collaborators Jahra Wasasala, Henry Lai-Pyne and Oliva ‘Spewer’ Luki, supported by CONJAH and PSEUDO Studio with it’s seed development showing commissioned by Chunky Move Company as a part of their Activators 10 2023 programme. The TADRA, and other visions showing was presented by Naarm (Melbourne)’s inaugural FRAME: Biennial Dance Festival in 2023.