PRODUCTION:
The dream index
VENUE:
First performed at PACT Theatre on 24th June 1998. Season of three performances.
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PROGRAM NOTES:
The dream index is a study in image, a prototype for paradox.
How does one create an index of dreams? How can the fluid subjective
fantasy align and be reconciled with the formatted objective? Can
mathematics be surreal? Can dreams be deconstructed in terms of
logic? And how can the dream be represented in the moment of performance,
with the inescapable presence of the real human body? Thus The dream index is an experiment,
a meditation on form and content. It has been realised by
the collated visions
of the version 1.0 network in a short, intensive period.
A whirlwind of dinner parties and arguments. Conceptual and
choreographic maps developed over four weeks and overlayed
onto bodies in four days. A nightmare indeed. That The dream
index has anything resembling coherence and beauty is a tribute
to the tireless dedication of all concerned. I thank you
for your faith and a licence to mine your dreams.
A performance spectacle of haunting beauty, searing
images and operatic dementia. Performative mathematics,
random acts of violence and irrational slippages from pedestrian
routines. Conversations with the collective unconscious
via Freud, Jung, Dali, and Breton, with the Lieberstod
aria from Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde a recurring
leitmotif. German operatic constructions of love, death
and transfiguration collide with a surreal Australian experience
of beauty, pathos and strangeness
“ Version 1.0 is a confident manifestation of
a new initiative springing up despite a limited number
of training grounds for young performing artists.”
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PRODUCTION
CREDITS:
Devised
and performed by:
Angie Macnevin
Chenoeh Miller
Jane Parkin
David Williams
Damon Young
Keith Kempis
Additional
performers:
Mark Byrne
Mark Franklin
Jonathan Guile
Michael Wilkins
Geoff Wilkinson
Renton Wright
Lighting
by:
the Fibre Cement Company
(Craig Anderson and Tony
Walters)
and David Parkin.
Sound
by:
Tania Payne.
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