Category: Sara Black

CHAMPIONS, from Form Dance Projects for Sydney Festival. World Premiere, in Bay 17, Carriageworks, Redfern, 17 – 22 January. Martin del Amo, is responsible for Concept and Direction, also, Choreography and Text (along with the Dancers) for CHAMPIONS. He says in the program notes: A commonly held belief is that sport and the arts do not go together. The argument goes that artists often think of athletes as competition-obsessed ‘boofheads’, while in turn, athletes deride artists as self-indulgent ‘wankers’. … CHAMPIONS is a dance piece presented as if it is a sporting event. … The largest of the performing spaces…

    Babka presents PROGRESS AND MELANCHOLY at fortyfive downstairs, Flinders St, Melbourne. PROGRESS AND MELANCHOLY is “A new physical theatre work based on Anton Chekhov’s THE CHERRY ORCHARD. ” Using the skeleton framework of Chekhov’s play and some of the functions of some of his characters, six actors/dancers and a musician: Todd Macdonald, Nadja Kostich, Majid Shokor, Christophe Le Tellier, Paea Leach, Sara Black and Ernie Gruner, under the direction of Bagryana Popov, explore “people’s behaviour during a time of upheaval…. depict(ing) profound social change and disorientation…… to impart a sense of the transience of all things.” The actors…