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Tiny Dancer
October 20, 2015 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Tiny projections dance through the Cultural Centre in Taffyworks’s Tiny Dancer. Presented by Drug Aware
Three dancers appear with torch lights from underneath Perth Cultural Centre’s big screen, searching. Slowly their images emerge from the darkness of that big screen, as do their innermost desires – to belong, to be seen.
From Perth dance production company Taffyworks comes a new public dance performance and film project, Tiny Dancer, presented by Drug Aware. Three dancers; Louise Henshall, Tarryn Runkel and Amy Wiseman move to the compelling sounds of Perth composer Elise Reitze. Surreal versions of the dancers come to life through film created by Fionn Mulholland, appearing on tiny projectors manipulated by the dancers, and on the massive screen behind them.
The filmed portrayals of each dancer slowly reveal their complex characters, their relationships to one another and to their audience. What they openly display and choose to hide may have a great impact on who they become both within and outside the frame of the screen.
Taffyworks is the art child of American dance artist Kathleen Szalay. Now based in Perth, Kathleen creates site-specific & film-integrated dance works that have been described as darkly whimsical and richly accessible.
Following a presentation in Newcastle’s Crack Theatre Festival, Tiny Dancer will arrive in the Perth Cultural Centre October 20-23rd at 7:30pm each night. Tiny Dancer is a free public performance.
Tiny Dancer, a Taffyworks production presented by Drug Aware
October 20-23 @ 7:30pm
Perth Cultural Centre – under the big screen
Free public performance
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