Quodia is a performing group that brings multi-dimensional works to the modern performance space. These works combine the media of video projection, storytelling and music in a very simple and elegant way that seeks to create a level of participation from the audience that is very rare.

This multi-layered approach to performance doesn't seek to overwhelm, but rather to engage, and even draw on, the audience's own imagination. More akin to an animated children's book than to a modern television/film type of production, these works intentionally leave empty space. Inside these spaces are where the viewer is gently asked to step in.

These works are encoded into several layers. The first layer is musical (both performers have a long history as musician/composers.) Using unorthodox instrumentation and a fully immersive quadraphonic audio system, the musical language is created especially for interacting with other layers within the works.

A second layer is visual, with moving and still imagery gliding across the screen, sometimes reinforcing one of the other layers and sometimes building upon it's own story. Some pieces link the manipulation of the visual imagery, in real-time, to the performers movements and musical instruments. A third layer is the story/text line. This dimension appears sometimes as preformed spoken word, and sometimes as pieces of text that emerge on the screen through, and around, the imagery.

Not all of these dimensions are always present. Since the audience is asked to assimilate many different elements simultaneously, Quodia has craftily used each of these dimensions in their most efficient manner.

The result being that when a purely musical element comes to the forefront, one or more of the other layers retreats, giving way as needed. Each layer, in turn, is given its moment to come forward.

The interplay between elements in each layer and in between the layers themselves creates a unique effect upon audience members. Their experience of these works comes from their own re-combining of the elements, internally.  Ultimately, this process turns the audience's observational mechanism inward, encouraging them to engage their own innate creative being.

Combining sophisticated, high technology with the power of an ancient mythology, Quodia aim to pass on the energy of imagination.