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Be Your Self - Australian Dance Theatre |
Saturday 20 February - Saturday 27 February 2010
Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide
Garry Stewart's world premiere season of Be Your Self reveals the precarious stability of the concept of self as the work steps through the conventions we use to convince ourselves of a singular 'I'.
Collaborating with visionary New York architectural firm Diller, Scofidio + Renfro (MacArthur Foundation 'Genius Award' recipients), Stewart wields dance, spoken text, video graphics and architectural design to collapse the underpinnings of who we think we are. Be Your Self promises to be a formidable new contribution to Australian contemporary dance.
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Untrained - Lucy Guerin Inc. |
Wednesday 24 February - Sunday 28 February
Adelaide Centre for the Arts, Adelaide SA So, you think you can dance? Untrained is a quirky and irreverent theatrical exploration that takes its performers and its audience into a whole new undefined experience.
Four men take to the stage. Two are highly skilled, experienced dancers; two are acclaimed visual artists with no movement training whatsoever. The complex, refined moves one can do with ease, another can only try to approximate.
All are given the same instructions. It's how they execute them that displays an individual portrait of each man's character, as well as an unavoidable comparison between the participants. It's this evolution of information, built up through each unit of action, that shows what they have in common and where their physical histories set them apart.
This humorous and courageous examination of dancers and their art could only come from the highly infuential Adelaide-born, Melbourne-based Lucy Guerin, who has built her reputation on movement invention and choreographic structure. Read more... |
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