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a publicity image for The Place Prize 2008
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The Place Prize 2008 Preview 3

Date: 6 September 2008
Time: 8:00 pm

Dam Van Hunyh's trio focuses on the male torso. "The inspiration for the work is based on observations of everyday people and their daily activity. I am inspired by the way every individual approaches an event or a problem with their own unique physical interpretation. As no two people open a door, smoke a cigarette or walk their dog in the same way, I’m aiming to observe and comment on how the body moves to accommodate every situation."

Philine Janssens' piece will be the result of research into the emotions that cause people to have goosebumps. The piece will be a compilation of the emotional, the real and the absurd, telling the ‘story’ not through plot but through a flow of images, actions and reactions drawn from the deepest fears and desires of interdependent performers. Philine is in rehearsal with dancers Katryn Jackson and Anthony Missen.

Darren Johnston presents a hypnotic solo of ensemble proportions. “When the mind is disturbed, the multiplicity of things is produced, but when the mind is quieted the multiplicity of things disappears”  (Fritjof Capra, The Tao of Physics). A collision of sound, video and live performance, this is a journey into the subconscious. A solo performer is joined by multiple simulations of himself, culminating in a strange ensemble performance by the real and the virtual.

The purpose of Kyoung-Shin Kim's Oblivion is to express extreme images of life and death. Shin's starting point was the nature of pain, and how it can overwhelm us in the present yet seem like nothing when we think back to that moment as time goes by. His work for four dancers is inspired by the question of where happiness and tragedy begin and end.

Bettina Strickler's work examines random but significant moments in the life of a fictitious woman - Nora Torrington. The piece looks at the nature of memory and questions what we will remember at the end of our lives? Big, earth shattering events? Births, deaths, divorce? Or the small details: smells, glances, gestures, someone’s laughter, someone’s touch? There will be four performers on stage - one dancer (Elisabetta D’Aloia), one opera singer/dancer (Claudio Girar), one actress (Irene Hardy) and composer Simon Redfern.

A preview performance of new works specially commissioned for The Place Prize 2008, created by:

Dam Van Huynh
Philine Janssens
Darren Johnston
Kyoung-Shin Kim
Bettina Strickler

 

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