Publicity still for "Anti-Gravity". Photographer: Unknown
Anti-Gravity
17 March 2017 – 26 March 2017 Merlyn Theatre
Co-created and conceputalised with Ho Tzu Nyen
Malthouse Theatre, Chunky Move Dance Company, Dance Massive,
Dance Collaboration Special Event
Anti-Gravity confronts gravity-bound bodies with the ephemeral, ever-changing cloud. Performers transform from celestial creatures to terrestrial warriors. As the clouds swell and dissipate, bodies are caught between monolithic stillness and fleeting elevation, becoming the vessels of our own imagination.
★★★★
"THE THEATRICAL INGENUITY OF THE WORK, AND THE PERFORMERS’ EXECUTION OF DEMANDING CHOREOGRAPHIC SEQUENCES...EXTEND BEYOND THE CAPABILITIES OF MOST PROFESSIONAL DANCERS"
— Time Out
"FEARLESSLY COMPLEX AND VISUALLY ARRESTING"
— The Music
Cast
Creatives
Lighting Designer, Designer
Sound Designer, Composer
Costume Designer
Director, Designer, Creator, Choreographer
Designer, Creator
Acknowledgements
ANTI—GRAVITY is supported by the Sidney Myer Fund and Arts Centre Melbourne for Asia TOPA. Asia TOPA is a joint initiative of the Sidney Myer Fund and Arts Centre Melbourne and is supported by the Australian and Victorian Governments.
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