Production still for "The Plague Dances". Photographer: Jeff Busby
The Plague Dances
By Mat Diafos Sweeney, Sebastian Peters-Lazaro & Jesse Rasmussen
14 April 2012 – 06 May 2012 Tower Theatre
Created by Four Larks and written with Marcel Dorney
Malthouse Theatre, Four Larks,
Theatre Dance Collaboration
The phenomenon of dancing mania has left a mysterious trail through history – entire communities infected with a spontaneous urge to dance until they literally drop. It’s suicide with a backbeat, but what’s behind these lethal outbreaks? The devil’s drumming or religious ecstasy? Neurological decay or otherworldly arrival? A riot of motion and mayhem that spans from medieval rites to modern day marathons of mass movement, The Plague Dances is a dance of death with a contagious undercurrent.
Cast
Creatives
Writer
Lighting Designer
Stage Manager
Set Designer, Costume Designer
Acknowledgements
Presented by Malthouse Theatre & Four Larks.
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