Human.VPN/someplace_else, 2026, dance-graffiti performance (try out)

 

Human.VPN explores the distinction between a person’s emotional and physical location, offering a critical examination of the politics of digital mapping. Two dancers, Marina Orlova and Asya Deinekina, interact with a projected digital map of the world, tracing physical and digital paths through it as if moving through a comic strip. Described as a ‘collective geography self-study’, the piece suggests that shared geopolitical disorientation — and not-knowing — can become a source of togetherness.

 

Choreographer, performer: Marina Orlova

Performer, collaborator: Valeryia Le

Dramaturgical advisor, performer: Asya Deinekina

Sound designer, performer: Arieh Chrem

Advisor, collaborator: Maria Mavridou

Research collaborator: Xdzunúm Danae Trejo Boles

Bio

Marina Orlova (1987) is an independent dance/theatre maker, tech-dramaturg and AI researcher based in Amsterdam. She received education in sociology in Moscow and in experimental choreography at the Amsterdam Academy of Theatre and Dance. She creates interdisciplinary performances that combine her background in sociology, curiosity for technology, choreographic methodologies and lived knowledge from marginalised communities. In doing so, she mediates between engineering logic and theatrical devices, using technology as both metaphor and mirror to societal issues.