Blue Horses / Slave / Elektra
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Blue Horses / Slave / Elektra | |||||||
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| Venue | The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW | |||||||
| First Date | 17 November 1987 | |||||||
| Last Date | 29 November 1987 | |||||||
| Dates Estimated | No | |||||||
| Status | Professional | |||||||
| World Premiere | No | |||||||
| Description | Triple bill.
Blue Horses is a dance using blues music as its base and themes of blending, cradling, embracing, supporting, lifting, holding and consoling, as the movement source. The choreography is a tableaux... Slave is satirical. Slave to the work force, slave to the rhythm, slave yearns to escape... Elektra is based on the plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides... An actress delivers various speeches from the Elektra characters of these tragedies. Five dancers translate her mood into movement that weaves sea fashion around her... |
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| Description Source | Programme | |||||||
| Primary Genre | Dance | |||||||
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| Event Status | Completed | |||||||
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| Data Set | AusStage | |||||||
| Event Identifier | 143210 | |||||||
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