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Dancing with Death (Asia TOPA)

March 2, 2017 @ 8:00 pm - March 4, 2017 @ 8:00 pm AEDT

$41.65 – $49

The line between life and death is joyously erased in a physical work of rare intensity.

 

Award-winning Thai choreographer Pichet Klunchun leads you into a space between life and death, where the material and immaterial meet, and where body and spirit exist in a state of kinetic freedom.

 

When Klunchun first visited the Phi Ta Khon ghost festival, he found a place where the living and the dead mingled and death was not to be feared but celebrated. Through vibrant and colourful costumes and masks – and dance that is free, fluid and organic – fertility and mortality were woven together to joyfully honour both.

 

Inspired, Klunchun went on to invent a new physical language marrying the improvisational and intuitive nature of folk expression with his contemporary choreographic system based on classical Thai dance.

 

Step onto the State Theatre stage for an up-close experience that’s out of this world. Fast-rising fashion designer Piyaporn Bhongse-tong (Flynow) provides stunning costumes, while Japanese collaborators Asako Miura and Hiroshi Iguchi create light and sonic landscapes, with music sampled from field recordings of the Phi Ta Khon itself.

 

“Dancing with Death is situated in the spiritual everyday… When the dancers come together they exert a palpable force, the force of common humanity.” – RealTime Arts

Details

Start:
March 2, 2017 @ 8:00 pm AEDT
End:
March 4, 2017 @ 8:00 pm AEDT
Cost:
$41.65 – $49
Event Category:
Website:
https://www.asiatopa.com.au/events/dancing-with-death

Venue

Arts Centre Melbourne
100 St Kilda Rd
Melbourne,Victoria3004Australia
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Website:
ww.artscentremelbourne.com.au

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