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Erotic Dance

Luke George & Collaborators

Presented in Season 1 2016

Presented by Arts House
as part of FOLA 2016

7pm, Wed 2 Mar
7pm, Thu 3 Mar
7pm, Fri 4 Mar
4pm, Sat 5 Mar

Arts House
521 Queensberry St,
North Melbourne

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Breathing, shuddering, shaking and pulsing, Erotic Dance is a sensual duet between dancer, Luke George and sound artist, Nick Roux. Exploring the intimacy between performer and spectator, it suggests an experience of art that is primitive and seductive, arousing and visceral – one that appeals to magic and higher connection.

In 1961, Susan Sontag wrote, “we need an erotics of art”. George flirts with Sontag’s phrase, taking it to the letter to discover what ‘an erotic dance’ might be for audiences today. Clothed or naked, balletic, vibrating or still, George uses his dancing body to undress performance itself – intensely describing how space, knowledge and belief mingle to move us beyond what we see.

Presented by Arts House
as part of FOLA 2016

7pm, Wed 2 Mar
7pm, Thu 3 Mar
7pm, Fri 4 Mar
4pm, Sat 5 Mar

Arts House
521 Queensberry St,
North Melbourne

Concept, Choreography & Performance:
Luke George
Original Sound Creation & Performance:
Nick Roux
Producer:
Alison Halit
Dramaturgy:
Nicola Gunn


Lighting design:
Bosco Shaw
Costume Design:
Justin Kelly & Luke George

Supported by – Erotic Dance first premiered at Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint- Denis / Théâtre Le Colombier-Bagnolet, Paris in May 2015. It has been supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria, and by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body; Lucy Guerin Inc’s Pieces for Small Spaces; CATCH!; Panoply Performance Laboratory; Abrons Arts Center, New York; fieldworks, Brussels; and Théâtre de Vanves, Paris; and the City of Melbourne through Arts House.
Image by – Pierre Grobois