So I have not caught up on the last couple of months, as I said I would, oops. In today's post I'm going to share a couple of links. Firstly, I will be performing for the first time in Melbourne in April with Weave Movement Theatre, YAY!! Weave is a fantastic community dance theatre group made up of talented performers. I'm learning a lot about working with diverse range of people and the dance technique employed in warm ups, training and work shopping (I'll blog about this at a later date). Here is the is link to Weave's website, including information about the upcoming show: http://weavemovementtheatre.com.au/?page_id=57.
Secondly, I met Lotus Etrog while ushering at TheatreWorks. Lotus is part of an Israli Theatre Company, Tziporela: http://www.tziporela.com/. The company was in Melbourne for a couple of weeks and performed at TheatreWorks on Sunday 18th, March, 2012. I found myself amongst an audience of people, predominantly Hebrew speaking watching a hilarious show of skits with dialogue predominantly in Hebrew! Although I couldn't follow a lot of skits much of the show incorporated physical theatre and dance so I was able to follow along. The company promotional material explained they combine many theatrical forms in order to translate cross-culturally, and they do this well. The skits explore politics, relationships, love, stereotypes, culture from their own perspectives and personal experiences. I must say my own preconceptions of Israli culture were challenged throughout the show with the inclusion of female nudity and explorations of non-heterosexuality. I have to end this here as my clumsy girl friend cut her finger rather badly and we have to go get her poor finger stitched up!
