REAL GAMES by Nicoletta Cappello

The Real Games is a podcast that instead of being listened to is designed to be enacted. The RG Podcast contains 21 Real Games, 21 audio-based performances and theatre games each designed to be done in connection to a daily task or activity. You do the performances and theatre games at home by following step by step the audio-instructions in real time while you listen the podcast. The RG are created to add a spark of imagination and groove to your daily routine, and they can lead to unexpected results. You can do the RG alone or accompanied, here and now, or later. The performances can be only listened to or actively danced.

The Real Games - 21 Days Imagination-in-Motion Challenge

The Real Games - 21 Days Imagination-in-Motion Challenge, is an embodied research exploring the interaction between selected movement-based performing techniques and embodied techniques connected to everyday life routines. Artistic research and movement-based performing dramaturgies are combined into a series of 21 gestural scores providing an artistic experience of different everyday life activities. Coming into the format of a playlist of 21 recorded auto-tutorial or kinetic podcast, the Real Games provide to the user step-by step audio instructions to activate movement based scores in real time while listening to them. Framed into the context of a domestic environment, the Real Games offer gestural experiences for non-arts professional audience to cultivate bodily imagination as an embodied technique and an as everyday practice, with the aim of changing their habitual relationship to movement towards a more creative one. The Real Games respond to the utopian question, “What if dance and performance were as mainstream daily practices as Yoga is?” Through the formula of the 21days challenge, the Real Games engage in the utopian effort of promoting imaginative movement as a creative and critical habit of the everyday.

The research explores the potential of interactive movement scores as an accessible playground for centering the role of the body and imagination in everyday culture. It aims to contribute to a movement towards the building of hermeneutic tools that can make a better sense of everyday experience and possibly change it, provoking interruptions in dominant social choreography and instigating cultural change by means of imaginative movement.

The Real Games are presented as a prototype inside an exposition in physical space of a few samples organized into individual play stations, including props, set-up and audio instructions for the visitors to try-out the games.

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