Event | Desert Island Dances | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Venue | Fairfax Studio, Melbourne, VIC | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Umbrella Event | Melbourne Festival 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
First Date | 9 October 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Opening Date | 9 October 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Date | 13 October 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dates Estimated | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Status | Professional | ||||||||||||||||||||||
World Premiere | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Part of a Tour | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Description | Can we imagine or create a perfect place? If we can, what would it look like? What would we throw away? What would we keep? Desert Island Dances is a darkly humorous and incisive performance that tackles notions of absence and presence. Inspired by the popular BBC Radio program, Desert Island Discs, the work incorporates dance and spoken word into a warm-hearted and often funny exploration into the things that make us who we are. Wendy Houstoun, the show?s creator and performer, works with words and movements that have come from diverse situations and people: a dialogue in Düsseldorf, a |
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Description Source | Programme | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Primary Genre | Dance | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Movement-based Theatre
One Person Show |
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Text Nationality | England | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Production Nationality | England | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Event Status | Completed | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Event Identifier | 85598 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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