Video Description - Extracts from A/Liveness

Clips from a piece of dance theatre performed via a zoom call. There are two screens side by side, and two performers. Ellie is a white female with long ginger hair, wearing a floral blouse and red starry pyjama bottoms. Pagan is a white female with a brown bob and fringe. wearing a black shirt with blue patterned pyjama bottoms. The first set of clips show Ellie sitting in a living room, wondering why Pagan’s video has frozen, talking to herself and the audience. Partway through, Pagan appears behind her, dancing. Her movement is loose and collapsing, bending from the knees and hips with a feeling of tension in her arms and face. The second set of clips shows Ellie dancing in a bedroom, she is like a deflated balloon, puffing up whenever Pagan’s voice comes over, asking questions. The third section shows both performers against wooden backgrounds; Ellie is looking into the camera with her head and shoulders visible, wearing glasses. Pagan is wearing a yellow hat and performing tangled up movements, slowly folding and unfolding in a confined space. In the final section both performers come together and are visible on both screens. They roll over eachother and move slowly around the living room, staring into each camera with increasingly concerned expressions. End of Video Description.