{"id":15499,"date":"2024-08-12T11:38:08","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T09:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/12\/lost-connection-review-dance-quartet-in-thrall-to-their-smartphones\/"},"modified":"2024-08-12T11:38:08","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T09:38:08","slug":"lost-connection-review-dance-quartet-in-thrall-to-their-smartphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/12\/lost-connection-review-dance-quartet-in-thrall-to-their-smartphones\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost Connection review \u2013 dance quartet in thrall to their smartphones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summerhall, Edinburgh<br \/><\/strong>Doom-scrolling and dopamine hits take centre stage in this arresting show in the festival\u2019s Taiwan Season<\/p>\n<p>You may not recognise the word but you will know the behaviour. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collinsdictionary.com\/submission\/754\/Phubbing\">Phubbing<\/a>, currently under consideration for the Collins dictionary, is \u201cto interact with a mobile phone in preference to people in a social setting\u201d. Part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twseason-edfringe.com\/\">Taiwan Season<\/a> at the fringe, Seed Dance Company\u2019s arresting production begins with the familiar image of a figure hunched, barely seeming to breathe, lost in the glow of a smartphone.<\/p>\n<p>Other dancers circulate, drawn to the screen like moths to a flame or performers seeking the spotlight, and there is a sequence seemingly evoking the desperate search for a signal. One of the four lies on the ground, their body sporadically jolting upwards with each hit of dopamine \u2013 or is it something more sinister? \u2013 from social media.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/article\/2024\/aug\/12\/lost-connection-review-summerhall-edinburgh\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/207951cbf4a09995bdb542da0c971cc9e0f5f2df\/0_316_2480_1488\/master\/2480.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=96a071f4f905da6dc61d0a93d4e88594\" title=\"Lost Connection review \u2013 dance quartet in thrall to their smartphones\" \/>Summerhall, EdinburghDoom-scrolling and dopamine hits take centre stage in this arresting show in the festival\u2019s Taiwan Season<br \/>\nYou may not recognise the word but you will know the behaviour. Phubbing, currently under consideration for the Collins dictionary, is \u201cto interact with a mobile phone in preference to people in a social setting\u201d. Part of Taiwan Season at the fringe, Seed Dance Company\u2019s arresting production begins with the familiar image of a figure hunched, barely seeming to breathe, lost in the glow of a smartphone.<br \/>\nOther dancers circulate, drawn to the screen like moths to a flame or performers seeking the spotlight, and there is a sequence seemingly evoking the desperate search for a signal. One of the four lies on the ground, their body sporadically jolting upwards with each hit of dopamine \u2013 or is it something more sinister? \u2013 from social media. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summerhall, EdinburghDoom-scrolling and dopamine hits take centre stage in this arresting show in the festival\u2019s Taiwan Season You may not recognise the word but you will know the behaviour. Phubbing, currently under consideration for the Collins dictionary, is \u201cto interact with a mobile phone in preference to people in a social setting\u201d. Part of Taiwan &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/12\/lost-connection-review-dance-quartet-in-thrall-to-their-smartphones\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lost Connection review \u2013 dance quartet in thrall to their smartphones<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15499"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}