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Nicole Canham and Phluxus Dance Collective present
chinese whispers/broken telephone
THURSDAY 1st NOVEMBER 8pm
CONTEMPORARY DANCE AND MUSIC
pst. Want to play chinese whispers?
Join us for one night only as ACT Creative Arts Fellow Nicole Canham, clarinet with Brisbane’s award winning Phluxus Dance collective create a world of music and movement investigating the familiar party game chinese whispers.
Music and movement morph into a game of gossip and abstraction. Classical clarinet, dance and electronica conjure a world based around communication breakdown and cumulative error. Familiar sounds and movements shift and change.
Will you pass on the message, or choose to distort it?
chinese whispers/broken telephone is a theatrical experiment, taking a familiar concept and looking at the different directions the game can take. A simple phrase becomes unrecognisable through accents, changes of pronunciation and interpretation. The music features warped Gershwin etudes, acoustic treatments of heavy metal anthems by Alchemist, minimalist masterpiece New York Counterpoint by Steve Reich and other works. The choreography explores common themes to the artform alongside the rules of the game – interpretation of an idea and the exploration of ways that we associate meaning to what we see and hear.
Blurring the boundaries between artforms - prepare to join in the experiment you’ll have to come to the show to find out how!
Visit us on the web at www.myspace.com/chinesewhispers07
Chinese whispers/broken telephone is part of an ongoing creative partnership between Nicole Canham and Nerida Matthaei, whose other live music and dance projects include The Memory of Trees exploring conservation/nature and The Laboratory exploring the ethics of human cloning and the emotional impact of a scientific debate. Chinese whispers/broken telephone is part of a body of work being developed in collaboration with other artists by ACT Creative Arts Fellow for 2007, Nicole Canham. This project is supported by the ACT Government through artsACT.
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| Presented by | Nicole Canham and Phluxux Dance Collective |  | | Date | Thu 1 Nov 2007 | | | Time | 8pm (Doors open 7.30) | | | Cost | Unreserved Cabaret & Theatre Seating
Full Price:Web $20, Phone & Door $22
Concession:Web $14, Phone & Door $16
School Groups:
student $14, teacher $22
Concessions accepted: Health care card, full-time student and pensioner.
| | | Venue | Performance Space (Cabaret/Lounge Seating) | | | Enquiries | Box Office: Monday to Friday
12 noon - 4pm. 07 3872 9000 | | | Artforms | Electronic, Experimental Music, Sound Art, Dance, Cabaret | | | Type | Performance |
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