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Year of Premiere: 2000
Premiere
Season Credits
Performers
Creative Personnel
- Choreography: Gideon
Obarzanek in collaboration with the premiere season performers
- Sound Design: Hugh Covill and Franc
Tetaz
- Musical Compositions: Jochem Paap (aka Speedy
J), with additional composition material by Hugh Covill and Franc
Tetaz
- Lighting Design: Margie Medlin
- Costume Design: David Anderson, with additional
design by Jane Summers-Eve
Choreographer’s
Notes
Much of the choreography in Crumpled entertains an exaggerated sense of
reality of what the body can withstand at the point of impact. Rigorous
in intent and reckless in manifestation, this work of considered and calculated
collisions continues on relentlessly, like an extended action sequence.
The body's counterfeit resilience is only betrayed when performers of
the work are selectively shut out from the piece together with the audience.
Media Response
“This Australian modern-dance company from Melbourne brought blasts
of choreographic excitement to the Brooklyn Academy of Music Harvey Theatre
when it appeared as part of the 2001 Next Wave Festival.” THE NEW
YORK TIMES
“Obarzanek's vocabulary is also brutally arduous, but in keeping
with the titles of the pieces shown at the BAM Harvey, his dancers seem
damaged, unhinged, and trapped in technological disaster zones.” VILLAGE
VOICE REVIEW (NY)
“Crumpled features choreography that is swift, intricate and often
brutal. In technical skill and sexiness, Chunky Move is in top form,” HERALD
SUN.
“Crumpled offered an astonishingly fresh blend of innovative movement,
taut structures, clever ideas, and truly inventive partnering… Mr
Obarzanek knows what time it is, and where he’s from, it’s
tomorrow already.” GAY & LESBIAN NEW YORK
“Another of Gideon Obarzanek’s slam-dunking numbers…
faster and more furious than usual, the dancers offer their stunning virtuosity
unstintingly.” THE AUSTRALIAN
“Obarzanek's body-slam-and-roll machine positively crackles under
Hugh Covill’s techno/drum ‘n’ bass.” INPRESS
“A thumpingly physical and highly theatrical work,” AUSTRALIAN
FINANICAL REVIEW
Performance History
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details of Crumpled’s performance history.
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