#Whitenoise
An evening-length solo exploring information overload
Maker/Performer: Dalton Alexander
Dramaturg: María Sanchez Alonso
Sound: Original Design by Dalton Alexander, Mixing/Mastering by Aaron Gold
Lighting Design: Jessi Barber
Videographer | Robert Mooring GG3D
Editor | Dalton Alexander
Stage Manager for Studio 210 Production | Stephanie Unger
Photography | Hannah Young
Premiered August 9, 2019 in San Francisco, CA, USA
Quick Info
Run time: ~52min | This piece contains nudity.
The Concept
#Whitenosie uses task-based improvisation, subtly promiscuous dancing, and cathartically slow movement to explore information’s effect on my human body. Taking from US-centric media - mainstream & social, and various modes of dispersal - it references the ongoing threat between Trump and N. Korea; longs for a past that was before my time as if something “great" in the US already existed; climaxes with disturbing patriotism; and ends in a visual installation that comments on capitalism, materialism, and how we humans are held suspended by these systems.
#Whitenoise is a form of protest against social media, its false sense of importance to the individual, but sweeping effect on the collective. What becomes of a projected patriotism that is stomped on? Of a pride that has turned to disgust?
PREVIOUS PERFORMANCES
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There are many kinds of love. Don’t be afraid if I say I love you #whitenoise -
Really all I want is peanut butter and chocolate #whitenoise
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People just say yes here #whitenoise
Initially workshopped and presented as a work-in-process for YES to Everything, a festival by Footloose Presents, in 2017. "The term white noise, the 'sh' noise produced by a signal containing all audible frequencies of vibration, is sometimes used as slang (or a neologism) to describe a meaningless commotion or chatter that masks or obliterates underlying information." Wikipedia
Thank You
Deborah Slater, Chris Murchison, Pam Kileen, Michelle & Robert Portillo, Heather M. Kitchen, Jeremy Yee, Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, Raisa Punkki, Chinchin Hsu, Juliet Paramor, Bekka Rosenkrantz, Sophie Melis, Giulia Blasig, & Dounia Mojahid
Copyright: Dalton Alexander 2019 All peripheral recorded music used in this production belongs fully to the owners of those particular songs.