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Newsworthy

What makes a story worth telling?   

How do stories reach us?   

Do we care? 


Newsworthy is an interdisciplinary piece that deconstructs television news media conventions. It imagines the news as a physical machine positioned between individuals and the stories that define our society. No matter what is actually happening in the world, the news upholds a comforting status quo, balancing more urgent matters with light-hearted ones.  This piece comments on the media’s ability to direct our attention according to its own agenda, and explores the overstimulation that results.  

 

Premiere - Merge 4, Spectral Theatre (Vancouver-2011)


Created during a residency at Mascall Dance's Bloom (2011)


Performers - Jen Aoki, Jenn Edwards, Philippa Myler.

Original Music - Jakob Liljenwall


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