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Year of Premiere: 1998
Credits
Performers
Creative Personnel
- Choreographer: Paul Selwyn Norton
- Lighting: Damien Cooper
Introduction
The Rogue Tool was originally commissioned by Batsheva Dance
Company in 1996. Norton re-worked the original with Chunky
Move dancers adding new scenes and material to push it to
greater extremes. The re-worked production premiered in October
1998 as part of a triple-bill entitled Fleshmeet, which also
featured Corrupted 1 & 2.
Concept
In the Rogue Tool, six dancers storm their way through a choreographic
puzzle. A solitary figure finds himself the rogue in a herd
of origami elephants. Limbs are propped up and immobilised,
forty characters bite the dust, and Fred Frith continues to
strum his guitar.
Media
Response
“A bit like Forsythe without the pointe shoes. Norton
pushes his dance vocabulary hard. The work looks angular and
off-centre, and always direct, calculated and uncluttered.
Yet it also has strong balletic resonances with lifts, promenades
and supported turns and dancers landing in clean 5th positions
from what are often very un-balletic jumps and turns in the
air,” DANCE AUSTRALIA.
“Norton goes for pure abstraction, which puts the focus
on the action. In terms of shape and phrasing of movement,
his choreography at times explores in exhilarating breaks
from expectations” SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
“A loosely hung collection of compelling movement sequences
and small narratives… gravity is exploited to superb
effect,” THE ADVERTISER.
“Norton is a choreographer with a fine and clever appreciation
of the unconventional uses to which the human body can be
put and his work has both flow and innovation in equal manner.
Please can we have some more?” THE AUSTRALIAN.
Performance
History
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for details of Rogue Tool’s performance history.
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