Luke George

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NOW NOW NOW

Choreographer: Luke George
Performers: Kristy Ayre, Timothy Harvey, Luke George
Production/Design: Benjamin Cisterne
Dramaturge: Martyn Coutts
Costumes: Ede Strong and the Cast

Commissioned by Lucy Guerin Inc
Premiered July 2010, Dancehouse Melbourne

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About the piece:

NOW NOW NOW is experiment-as-performance that is exploring energy, time and consciousness. Three performers undertake conceptual live attempts to experience the question: can we be in the now?

“People seek to be in the moment, yet through the pursuit of this, move further and further away from it. I am drawn to the paradox of this notion and how it parallels the act of performance – which is happening, both in real time between the audience and the performer, and yet is highly constructed. In this piece, the performers are not characters representing a greater humanity or society – we are ourselves, and this performance is a genuine attempt at the question: can we be in the now?” – Luke George

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Media Reviews:

“…lean, polished and with unexpected emotional gravitas- Luke George’s second major dance work NOW NOW NOW left a capacity audience tingling with internal animation knowing they had just experienced something as innovative as it was authentic… Like a Speculum vitae humanae, a mirror of the world, NOW NOW NOW has exactly pinned the conditions of our current existence (at least in Melbourne in 2010). Distraction ridden, it’s not exactly a pleasant reality but neither is it hopeless. ” -Arts Hub (read review)

“The effect of all these attacks on the present is an increasing buoyancy and joyousness. George’s explicit intention is the exploration of the present moment, especially the complexities and contradictions of spontaneity when it collides with the consciousness of a structured work of art. In depriving us of narrative, sense or expectation, NOW NOW NOW opens up a glorious sense of liberation. Dadaist post-post-modern dance? I don’t know. Whatever it is, it went by in a flash: it effortlessly engrosses your entire attention. It’s very funny, provoking almost constant ripples of laughter, but underneath that is a sense of generosity and mutual trust that is mysteriously profound. -Alison Croggon/Theatre Notes (read review)

“NOW NOW NOW took off, a bird flying into plate glass time and again. Somewhat episodic, its attempt at the humanly impossible was an attempt to scale the sublime… Sometimes, just sometimes, a performance is infectious. To be in the moment is to die a little death, to let go of the evaluator. For the moment, that’s all there is. Isn’t it awesome?” -Real Time (read review)

…and another review in Real Time for the 2011 season in Dance Massive

The cast of NOW NOW NOW also received a Green Room Award nomination for Best Dance Ensemble for their premiere season.

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Photography

Photos – Jeff Busby

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WATCH an interview with Luke speaking to Real Time’s Keith Gallasch about NOWNOWNOW

RealTime @ Dance Massive – Luke George, Now Now Now from RealTime on Vimeo.

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