Corpus and the Wandering

One dancer, one body, one phone. 

Modern society lives on the grid. Phone screens, conference calls, cubicles, apartment windows. We are systemically divided by a culture that profits from our collective alienation. When the COVID pandemic first hit, director and dancer Jo Roy was inspired to create a world transcending this insidious framework of consumerism and patriarchy. The result: Corpus and the Wandering, an experimental self-portrait that follows one woman’s journey as she rediscovers her inner compass and kinship with nature. Using only her own body and her iPhone, Roy transforms a 100-screen “videomosaic” grid into a wonderland of the Earth and beyond. A mix of technical innovation and creative vulnerability, Corpus and the Wandering dares to ask how we can remove the walls of a fragmented society and repurpose technology to align with an interconnected future.