“Mortal Condition”

Part I: Condition Part II: Mortal Condition

Mortal Condition is a dance work for 3 dancers and a robotic screen which takes us from the reality of our human interactions and transports us to a virtual world we might escape to. Who are the avatars and who is playing who?

Partly inspired by a Mike Patton album and partly by observing gamers play for hours on end, Larrissa McGowan’s Mortal Condition explores human interactions and what might materialize from them in a virtual gaming world.

Staged in two distinctive parts, Part I: Condition starts with the guttural and vocal gymnastics of Mike Patton's experimental album "Adult Themes for Voice". Extraordinary human yet violent sounds underpin an expressive and wordless raw dialogue between two bodies.

In direct contrast Part II: Mortal Condition uses the personas of secondary female video game characters to explore virtual worlds where there are no rules. With DJ Tr!p’s score inspired by the cinematic explosions of adventure, Mortal Condition, takes the real and raw emotion of being human and transplants it into a very made up world of video games.

It’s one of those evenings where Lara Croft and Portal’s Anger Sphere play Tetris.

Venue Format
Theatre, Black Box Venue
Technical Rating
B
Touring Party
5

Born in Brisbane, Larissa began training at the Queensland Dance School of Excellence where she won the Queensland Ballet Scholarship, and graduated from the VCA winning the award for ‘Most Outstanding Talent’. Larissa joined Australian Dance Theatre in 2000 and toured extensively nationally and internationally with the company for 11yrs. In 2008, Larissa was named as the ADT Associate Choreographer. Following winning the 2003 Green Room Award for Best Female Dancer, Larissa won multiple awards in 2004, at the Helpmann Awards and the Australian Dance Awards. Her work, Zero-sum, made its world premiere at WOMADelaide 2009. She was a guest choreographer on 2 seasons of So You Think You Can Dance. Her work Slack was part of Sydney Opera House's New Breed season, which Link Dance Company toured internationally. She created Transducer as part of Tasdance’s ‘Voltage’ season, with Co:3 performing it at the companies launch season 2015. Fanatic was choreographed on Sydney Dance Company for Spring Dance and De Novo. Her work Skeleton premiered in 2013 at the Adelaide Festival, Dance Massive & Dublin Dance Festival. She Co-Choreographed Habitus with Garry Stewart for ADT in 2016 & independently created Mortal Condition which also premiered the same year.

Company Website
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Unique Selling Point

This piece takes us from the reality of our human interactions and transports us to a virtual world we might escape to. The work creates an interesting dialogue between the plethora of human emotion that comes with everyday life & interactions, then contrasts it with the intrigue of how we can be absorbed into a fantasy world of virtual reality. This is a conversation not just with the body through dance but also with the honest comprehension of a world that is ever changing. This work has been extremely relevant in our technology driven world & speaks to our needs or desires.

Marketing Materials

As this show has been performed with the Adelaide Festival Centre, all marketing collateral is available, including photos, video.

Community Engagement

Company can present workshops for both young people and adults, and professional development workshops for dance & education professionals.