Dance & ballet news

• 'Bodies can go further than you think': Peeping Tom's bamboozling shows about parenthood

  09-01-2018 16:17
  Zombie janitors and living sculptures rattle the nerves in the world of the surrealist Belgian duo who have created a terrifying trilogy from family lifePaintings swallow people whole. Sketches bleed. Sculptures spring to life. On the gallery walls, madonnas routinely disappear, replaced by self-portraits of men. Art has a life of its own.This is the world of Mother, created by Peeping Tom, a company capable of crawling right under your skin. The Belgium-based dance-theatre group, led by real-li
  
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• You Animal, You review – Force Majeure's new work a gladiatorial dance contest with no clear objective

  09-01-2018 03:29
  Carriageworks, Sydney
  World premiere at Sydney festival contains moments of startling beauty but lacks purposeTowards the end of You Animal, You, we witness what seems to be a messy, soiled birth. A washed up matriarch, played by Heather Mitchell, delivers a monologue in which she compares the delivery of her son to drowning on waves. As she does, a male dancer flips and turns inside a giant inflatable plastic bag. Eventually, he tears it open and slides out – naked as a newborn – in
  
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