LIVE ART:  experimentation, participation, activation
EXHIBITION  ·  PERFORMANCE
From TAP XP installations and Xtravaganzas to theatre art - pooling together diverse media from the DMo creative toolkit and interdisciplinary collaborations such as text, video, sound, painting, movement, choreography and performance - DMo puts together live art shows for exhibition and performance…
​​HMMM?
TAP XTRAVAGANZA MINI (2022)

HMMM?  is a hybrid live art show that acts as a festive get-together to share work from across the DMo creative repetoire, this time with the theme of 'Questioning'. Joined by collaborative efforts from fellow artists, in this Xtravaganza Mini you will find a screening of the movement art video Three Words Project; live movement from the video's dancers; video art projection from DMo's digital art series Questions; release of the standalone artzine Questionmark; and participatory art playground revelling with a magic balloon wall where attendees can hold a question and then 'pop' the answer out from the balloons.

​This Xtravaganza Mini says 'let us creatively question', and encourages the exploring of a whole range of questions including 'have we lost our ability to question?'. Within the festivities comes a creative way to remind us all of our ability and right to question, during a time when both these things feel on the brink of extinction.

Created by Danielle 'DMo' Oke
Movement artists: Monica Brunello, Sara Augieras
Production assistance: Willson Hau
When: Friday May 13, 2022 @ 19:30 (doors open) 20:00 (video screening + live movers)
Venue: CC Bar&Lounge, 3 Chapel Market, Angel, London N1, UK
​​Laugh-o-lution
TAP XP (2020)

Laugh-o-lution is a TAP XP project that invites participants to laugh out loud through a creative exploration, contemplation and sharing of what makes us laugh.

A 2-week residency period is being utilized by DMo and her collaborators to set up the art playground as three participatory activity stations that include: Station 1 featuring a Laughpit for riotous jumping and laughter, accompanied by a rock/techno/metal and laughter soundtrack; Station 2 featuring an installation made from hanging balloon and light strands, accompanied by a moving figure in a morphsuit, that encourages a wander through one’s Laughter Memoirs; and Station 3 featuring a local stand-up comedian and open mic opportunity. 

​The project encourages laughter, as well as the contemplation of laughter in life - how it feels when it’s missing verses how it feels when it’s present; our ability to consciously use it to heal and bring feelings of happiness; awareness of what makes us laugh; and how it feels to make others laugh. As with every TAP XP event, it allows participants to creatively explore and immerse themselves as deeply as they choose to go, as well as create a deeper connection with their inner world, and in this case, hopefully experience a ‘laugh-o-lution’!
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Created by Danielle 'DMo' Oke
Production assistance: Willson Hau
Movement artist: Monica Brunello
Comedian: TBC
Music + Sound Effects courtesy of channels: DivineFreeMusic, SoundLikeTube, usmanalitoo
Laughpit Soundtrack mixed by Danielle 'DMo' Oke
When: Saturday May 30, 2020 @ 19:00-20:00 (CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS)
​Venue: CSC Garage Nardini, Via Bombardini 7, Bassano del Grappa (VI) 36061, Italy
​​Symbology: moving through
TAP XP (2018)
Symbology: moving through is a TAP XP project presenting DMo's exploration of interconnection through specific symbology - elements of communication that allow people to go beyond what is known or seen - at the end of a 3-week residency period.

The art playground is set up as a participatory installation of three activity stations. The first station features local dancer Andonis Kouvalakis, repeating a specific movement phrase that attendees can learn and perform in three different states of awareness. The second station features a video projection and sound installation of binaural beats that participants mimic with their own voices to feel diverse body vibrations. The third station has images of varying symbols, along with activity cards placed in the centre of the studio with corresponding exercise experiments that participants randomly pick and trial.

​The main objective of the presentation is to encourage participants to expand their awareness of subtler energetic exchanges happening in their self, their environment and universal connections via simple and playful means that are adaptable to a person’s personal vibe. In conjunction with the subject's exploration, DMo also presents a public open lab called "Connecting with Symbology".
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Created by Danielle 'DMo' Oke
Dancer: Andonis Kouvalakis
When: Saturday December 1, 2018 @ 21:00 
​Venue: Akropoditi Dance Center, Iroon Polytechneiou 84, 84100 Ermoupoli, Syros, Greece

Open lab "Connecting with Symbology" presented by DMo
When: Sunday November 25, 2018 @ 12:00-14:00
Venue: Akropoditi Dance Center, Iroon Polytechneiou 84, 84100 Ermoupoli, Syros, Greece
Prelude
DANCE THEATRE (2018)

Prelude is a short dance theatre piece that acts as a prelude to the dance performance-in-progress From Earth We Grow by performer/choreographer Monica Brunello. The Prelude presents the beginning of life, using re-worked passages from the bible in spoken word and movement, serving as an introduction to themes of oneness, nature’s importance, having roots, and growing from authenticity, expressed in the main dance performance.
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Written & directed by Danielle 'DMo' Oke
Performed by Monica Brunello, Sara Augieras, Ilaria Campagnolo, Francesca Ferrazzi, Ana Novais, Michela Negro, Ilaria Corsi, Simone Baldo
When: Sunday March 11, 2018 @ 16:00
​Venue: CSC Garage Nardini (performing arts theatre), Via Bombardini 7, Bassano del Grappa (VI) 36061, Italy
Pinkafeld: Urban Provincial
OUTDOOR DANCE THEATRE (2016)

Pinkafeld: Urban Provincial is an outdoor dance performance happening in the main intersection of Pinkafeld in Burgenland, Austria. The performance delivers the culmination of a 2-week residency at D.ID, exploring the creative process in art and life led by DMo. The performance includes spoken word and dance movement, with performers weaving their choreography in an impromptu manner amongst passing traffic, both vehicle and pedestrian. It's an interesting feat to pull off in a town with strong links to Austria's nationalist right-wing.

​Concept & direction by Danielle 'DMo' Oke
Choreographed & performed by Sujin Lee, Verena Herterich, Paul Kofler, Helena Estermann, Marie Schmitz
When: Thursday September 8, 2016 @ 15:00
​Location: intersection of Hauptstraße and Kreuzgasse/Mariengasse, 7423 Pinkafeld, Burgenland, Austria