L I F E S I Z E
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Luke George – choreographer and performer
Kristy Ayre – performer
Luke Smiles – sound
Martyn Coutts – video
Benjamin Cisterne – lighting
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About the piece:
LIFESIZE explores ideas about the substitution of real life with imitation.
Through extreme disclosure of our private selves to a mass audience we seek personal connection and self-expression. The form and approach is a mash-up of dance, sound, light and video which borrows and gleans from popular and media culture. Two people attempt to create new worlds; recreate themselves, and connect with one another.
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Media:
“a dizzying example of form as content.”
Real Time (read review)
“beneath the plastic face and groomed attitude, desperately human.”
Spark Online (read review)
“Bold, brash and provocative, (LIFESIZE) is one of a kind”
Dance Australia
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Performances history:
We started creating LIFESIZE in early 2007. Since then the piece has developed through a process of remixing and performing for audiences in venues like theatres, nightclubs, studios and on virtual screens online….
Development showing at Chunky Move (Maximized)
Outpost – Electronic Audio Visual Jam (Horse Bazaar)
Trough Faggot Party (club party, Melbourne)
180 Seconds in Heaven or Hell (Arts House)
We Like Short Shorts (Dancehouse)
John Cage’s Musicircus (Melbourne International Arts Festival)
Pure Pleasure at The Men’s Gallery (Next Wave festival)
PICA for Dyuetto in the Artrage Silver festival 2008 (Perth, WA)
Graze at Abrons Art Centre New York City (curated by Miguel Gutierrez)
Dance Massive 2009 presented by Dancehouse (Melbourne) 2009
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Photography by Belinda Strodder
dancephotography.net.au
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LIFEsupport
The creation of LIFESIZE has been made possible through the Russell Page Fellowship for Contemporary Dance (2007) and is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body (2008). LIFESIZE is Maximized by Chunky Move (2007-08) and auspiced by Ausdance Victoria. LIFESIZE thanks Dancehouse for inclusion in the Duyetto tour to Perth (2008) and presentation in Dance Massive (2009).
