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Fast Idol
Year of Premiere: 1995
Premiere Season
Credits
Performers
- Narelle Benjamin
- Lea Francis
- Brett Daffy
- Victor Bramich
- Janine Dyjkmiere
- Kathryn Dunn
- Luke Smiles
Creative Personnel
- Choreographer/Director: Gideon
Obarzanek
- Music & Sound: Antony Partos and Andrew
Lancaster
- Lighting Designer: Geoff Cobham
- Costume Designer: Brett Chamberlain
- Designer: Andrew Carter
Production Crew
- Production Manager: Mark Mitchell
- Stage Manager: Annette Dale
Introduction
Chunky Move originally began as a one-off project
of two works in 1995; Spectre in the Covert Memory choreographed by Garry
Stewart (now Artistic Director of Australian Dance Theatre) and Gideon
Obarzanek’s Fast Idol were presented as a double-bill for the 1995
Melbourne Festival. Garry and Gideon were both then based in Sydney, and
this program was the first ‘Chunky Move’ production.
Choreographer’s
Notes
A dance for sublime, pathetic and perverted romantics.
As a child I was addicted to animated cartoons. Now as a choreographer
working with bodies, space and emotions, I have found a renewed interest
in this plastic-colour, slapstick artform. I now appreciate cartoons for
their ability to graphically manifest the exterior of the character’s
body, distorting its form and accentuating movement possibilities to describe
the inner thoughts, emotion and actions of the character. This caricature
of movement is brought more sharply into relief by the juxtaposition of
other more sombre, private devotional acts and vulnerable idiots.
Media Response
“Fast Idol (is) Obarzanek’s nod to televisual
childhood treats. It opens on a solemn note, but then follows a series
of urban characters with the classical slapstick vivacity of the Looney
Tunes… a masterpiece of comedy as well as dance,” HERALD SUN.
“Looking at Fast Idol is not unlike watching The Simpsons on TV
-… the results are extraordinary … quirky as it looks at first
sight, the sense of intelligence behind the fantasies makes Fast Idol
an engrossing as well as an entertaining experience,” SYDNEY MORNING
HERALD.
“Fast Idol seems to originate from and looks like fractured, crazy
television shows or adult porn comics… Obarzanek seems to have a
mountain of ideas here -– it really is a montage and any section
could start a new work,” THE AUSTRALIAN.
“Fast Idol is as iconolclastic and bizarre as just about everything
else (Obarzanek) has done, kowtowing to no-one, least of all choreographic
conventions,” THE AGE.
Performance
History
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