• Still from Digital Dreams
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Digital Dreams, 2020.

The dance film “Digital Dreams” is a performance supplement to Randall Belyea’s honors thesis entitled “Digital Dreams: Performing Our Fantasies and Modern Media.” In his thesis, Randall explores the connections between media intake and live, expressive performance, particularly as an increasingly technological society challenges our notions of practicing community through performance. The film piece physicalizes this research, by having dancers write about, analyze, and then perform the personal impact of their favorite media. A clash between the real worlds of the dancers and the digital worlds inside their heads unfolds throughout the piece, so that the viewer gets a glimpse of what performing in a hybrid society looks like for beings of perpetual media.

Randall Belyea
B.A. Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, 2020 | UC Berkeley Film Media Performing Arts |
Randall Belyea is an artist whose work focuses on technical management for entertainment, and performance technique and composition. Randall has worked in theater and dance across California and abroad in Ireland, as he hopes to make a difference in the lives of others through meaningful and engaging storytelling. Some highlights at Berkeley include stage managing TDPS's "The Arsonists" and "Berkeley Dance Project 2019," choreographing for "Fall Choreography Showcase 2019," and directing the film "Digital Dreams." Randall will be simultaneously pursuing his MBA in Management and MFA in Theatre Arts at California State University, Long Beach this fall.