Home
…is a performance installation by young artists of dance and architecture about the place we live and the living we create. The creation of Home was inspired by artists Luke George and Bec Reid’s dual experiences between their relationship to Tasmania as their original home, and the ever-growing ‘design for living / lifestyle’ culture in a media savvy and mass consuming, contemporary society.We wanted to create a dance work that was an immersive experience where the audience views and engages the performance in a physical and intimate way. By “installation” we mean a performance and set design that is installed in a fixed place in which an audience journeys through over a period of time. We took inspiration from the way you catch a theme park ride for the design and performance concept of Home and the way in which younger people are experiencing and defining a highly mobile and personalised sense of home (ipod, myspace.com…) – Luke George and Bec Reid
Each ride fits up to 10 audience members and a new ride departs every 5 minutes. Audience groups are guided through 5 rooms of separate homes by an individual guiding dancer: living, dining, kitchen, bathroom and bedroom. Each room is a new home and new people, as if audience were walking through the walls between houses in a street or apartment building.
Ideas behind the work and choreography ::: Home and living as a commodity, modern obsession with achieving the ultimate lifestyle, surrounding ourselves with luxury ::: seeking independence, leaving the family home, breaking with tradition but bringing all that history with you and colliding with others’ ideas and values ::: visiting the past, what is our sense of origin and connection to where and whom we come from? histories, memories, heirlooms and traits. as we race forward, are we repeating the past or ignoring it? ::: shutting off and closing up, the individual trapped inside fear of the world beyond the safety of the roofs, walls, fences and borders we put up ::: what would happen if everything we trust, depend on and take for granted is suddenly ripped away, leaving us with nothing but fractured memories, each other and the instinct to start again :::
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Stompin collaborated with 25 students from the University of Tasmania School of Architecture to design, make and install an enormous 40 meter long set made entirely out of recycled cardboard.
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When audiences’ arrive for the performance, their initial contact is with the public lounge – a place to wait for their show to commence. Situated in the centre of the lounge is a group of community members having a dinner party - the Home Recipe Group. The Diners interact with audience members, sharing family recipes that are important to them, samples of food and their sense of home. The dinner party is alive throughout the entire performance duration.
Home was first created in Launceston throughout 2006 with its premiere season Nov 24 to Dec 2 at the Roberts Woolstore. In 2007, Luke and Bec will create the project’s next evolution by making a home by touring the extraordinary set design and Launceston dancers to perform a new version of Home with young dancers and community in Melbourne. don’t miss it!
Home presented by Stompin and Arts House at the Meat Market 12 - 16 Sept 2007.
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