Colour-Fool at Dancehouse | 25-28 March 2021
Performance #1 Colour-Fool
25-28 March 2021
Thu - Sat 8:15pm
Sunday 3:30pm
Image: Collage elements by Jacqui Stockdale | Graphic design by Monica Benova | Photo by Mathew Lynn
Colour-Fool is an experimental performance installation work which embraces our colourful acts of ‘foolishness’ to provoke and challenge our perception of ‘what is normal?’
As part of ButohOUT! 2021 (New Ab/Normal), Colour-Fool explores the term ‘new normal’ which contains the paradoxical nuance that an abnormality can become ‘normal’. Colour-Fool brings a smorgasbord of short performances, roving and digital installation works in and around Dancehouse, with a colourful, quirky and illusionary sense of humour.
Colour-Fool will be created by a heterogeneous bunch of established & emerging artists from diverse cultural backgrounds. Drawing on their personal narratives and making use of interdisciplinary practices of poetry, visual arts and body painting — reflecting on interpretations of ‘home,’ ‘connection’ and ‘flesh’ in a post-pandemic Melbourne.
Yumi Umiumare, the international Butoh punkess, is directing and also joining in the fusion as a performer, along with new collaborators, Emma Bathgate (voice), Jacqui Stockdale (Visual arts) and Ai Yamamoto (Sound). Let’s celebrate our unique darkness and the contradictions within ourselves as we face these uncertain times!
Artistic Direction/Choreography
Yumi Umiumare
Producer
Takashi Takiguchi
Lighting design & Operator
Rachel Lee
Sound Design
Ai Yamamoto
Sound Operator
Isao Sano
Graphic Design
Monika Benova
Video works
Justas Pipinis and Yumi Umiumare
Visual arts consultation
Jacqui Stockdale
Publicist
Diana Wolfe
Co-creators & Performers:
Kiki Ando, Emma Bathgate, David Blom, Jessie Ngaio, Pauline Sherlock, Tomoko Yamasaki, Takashi Takiguchi & Yumi Umiumare
WHEN
March 2021
25 (Thu) 8:15pm
26 (Fri) 8:15pm
27 (Sat) 8:15pm
28 (Sun) 3:30pm
DURATION
70 mins
WHERE
Dancehouse
North Carlton
Melbourne
COST
Members & Locals: $20
Concession: $25
Full Price: $30