Evening-Length Dance Theater performance presented by the New York International Fringe Festival. Made possible by the Flushing Town Hall space grant and the artist-in-residence program at Performance Project. 

developed in 2010
Re-worked in 2013
6 performers
Performance length: 60min
Concept: Svea Schneider in collaboration with
Katrin Blantar + Shraddha Borawake
Choreography: Svea Schneider in
collaboration with the dancers
Video: Shraddha Borawake
Photo credit: Jim Moore, James Huelbig

Perfect Prototype is a surreal and comedic comment on the representation of women in media and popular culture in the 21st century. The piece is inspired by a society that crazes for perfect body aesthetics and is marked by celebrity worship and plastic surgery obsession. Perfect Prototype creates an illusion that blurs the lines between reality and artificiality. The piece features live dancers, cameras, display mannequins, plastic body limbs and a wanna-be pop star diva. Dancers and mannequins are indistinguishable as limbs multiply, morph and divide. Inventing new corporeal forms, this piece challenges existing notions about the fragmentation of beauty within society and media

— Performed at: New York International Fringe Festival, Jerry Leibovitz Theater for the Performing Arts, DUMBO Dance Festival, Westfest, Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater, Highline Ballroom

Photo Credit: Jim Moore, James Huelbig, Chirs Nicodemo