FAR FLUNG is an interactive dance work devised by emerging artists collaborating across regional and metropolitan Victoria and Queensland. An exercise in physicalising the experience of non-physical interaction, FAR FLUNG is created via correspondence: Skype conferencing, social media, recorded video and the written word are fundamental to the development process and group rehearsals are rare.

The performance is an extension of the process: occurring simultaneously in multiple spaces throughout Newcastle, the dancers perform the work to separate audiences, interacting with each other through a network of live video projections. The audience is invited to choose the venue from which they witness the long distance dance as it unfolds, and to influence the performance by sharing their own experiences of “going the distance” via live feeds of social media. Stay alert – the locations and number of performance sites may shift from one performance to the next.

FAR FLUNG combines elements of site specific, durational, interactive and multimedia work with improvisation and risk, instilling personal narratives at the heart of the work with each performance growing out of the previous one.