Choreographer Perry's Double Think Examines Illusion of Opposition
21-Sep-2011WORLD PREMIERE
ARTS HOUSE AND FORCE MAJEURE IN ASSOCIATION WITH MELBOURNE FESTIVAL PRESENT
DOUBLE THINK (Australia)
Byron Perry
Prodigious Australian choreographer Byron Perry presents a shifting world of light and shadow with this playful experiment in movement.
Critically acclaimed Australian dancer, director and choreographer,
Byron Perry explores the concept of a performance work in constant flux in his second full-length dance work DOUBLE THINK, making its world premiere at Melbourne Festival.
A rhetorical examination of the illusion of opposition, DOUBLE THINK creates a constantly evolving landscape of relativity – a place where actions and statements serve double functions and characters create and derail trains of thought simultaneously. One tall man and one short woman make imperfect sense as they shed some dark on a light subject in a complex world of simple objects.
"To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them…Even to understand the word ‘doublethink’ involved the use of doublethink." George Orwell, 1984
Created by Byron Perry and performed by Kirstie McCracken and Lee Serle, DOUBLE THINK continues to explore Perry’s fascination with how lighting and sound can become characters in their own right, simply through the choreographed composition of illuminating and supporting actions of the performers. Perry first focused on this particular style of theatrical presentation in his short work A Volume Problem and last year’s full-length work I Like This with co-creator Antony Hamilton.
George Orwell, 1984Byron Perry is a multi award-winning graduate of VCA who has toured internationally, developing and performing roles with Chunky Move, BalletLab, DV8 Physical Theatre, Force Majeure and Kage. Byron was the inaugural Melbourne Festival Harold Mitchell Foundation Fellowship recipient in 2010.
Kirstie McCracken and Lee Serle are also VCA graduates with an extensive list of performance and choreographic work between them. Kirstie is a multi-award nominee who has toured work internationally for the last 12 years, while Lee has most recently undertaken a mentorship with renowned artistic director, Trisha Brown in New York.
DOUBLE THINK has been supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body, the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria, and the City of Melbourne.
"A hilarious satire on technology running amok…I f**king love it." Village Voice (I Like This)Venue: Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall
Dates: Wed 12 – Sat 15 Oct 2011
Arts House, North Melbourne Town HallDuration: 45mins (no interval)
Tickets: Full $30 / Conc $25
Bookings: artshouse.com.au / 03 9322 3713 or melbournefestival.com.au / 1300 723 038
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