KALOUGATA - DRA

Jahra Wasasala x Henry Lai-Pyne

Animation Film and Dance Performance

KALOUGATA - DRA has had two development iterations presented through an online virtual experience with Tempo Dance Festival 2022 (Aotearoa, NZ) and through a live-exhibition space at The Physics Room Gallery (Aotearoa, NZ) that featured an experimental experience between Jahra’s live physical performance, costume design, sculpture and Henry’s multimedia animation.

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Collaborators: Jahra Wasasala @jahra.arieta Henry Lai-Pyne @eek_now Oosh @ooshcon Harrison Hall @infernalfaun Spewer @spewer_os

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KALOUGATA - DRA uses motion capture, animation and dance to explore and reinterpret Fijian mythology, symbology and expressive movement. KALOUGATA - DRA holds a process of world-building and technological interrogation that focuses on the memory and stories of the dancing-body while transmuting Fijian folklore into a digital vision of mutation and distortion. This work in development utilises motion capture technology to inhabit virtual creatures and environments, in the process of enhancing and abstracting bodily expression in a live space.