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The Seduction of Liberty
| Choreography and direction : |
John Utans |
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Lighting design
conceived by :
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David Whitworth and John Utans |
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Lighting design
realised by :
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Jason Organ |
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| Music : |
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Franz Schubert |
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| Costume design : |
Shaaron Boughen |
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Performed by QUT Creative Industries, Dance.
Brisbane 2001
There are three main streams of thought that take place
in this piece and its creation. Firstly, Winterbranch,
a dance work by Merce Cunningham. I saw this at the
Adelaide Festival of the Arts in 1976. My memories of
it are vivid, falling bodies, the sound, the intense
light and the dark. And the fact that people were outraged
and tore up their programs whilst storming out of the
theatre in disgust. The piece was incredibly inspiring
and liberating for me.
Secondly, the work of Caravaggio (1571-1610) and the
technique of Chiaroscuro. Caravaggio's highly theatrical
use of contrasting light and dark was an inspiration
and liberation for many generations of artists.
Thirdly, something about notions of Totalitarianism,
living under strict orders and definitions and the collapse
of those structures.
Ideas & images: the experience of an oppressive
darkness, the experience and clarity of light. A veil
has been lifted. A desire and release. Liberation.
The ability to see things in a different light, a clearer
light.
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