Máté Mészáros: Performative Walk – Mechanics of Distance

During the pandemic, Máté Mészáros came up with an alternative form of his piece Mechanics of Distance that could still be shared and experienced while spaces were closed and gatherings prohibited. He developed a participative walk to enact nine stages of the choreography; participants can follow a route of printed pictograms, on their own or together, and can piece together the choreography of the performance. The result is that participants become quasi-performers themselves, gaining the physical sensation of the changing proximity of bodies in the space – in this case streets of Alserkal Avenue.

This piece is part of the Frontiers dance programme.