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Year of Premiere: 1998
Credits
Performers
Creative Personnel
Introduction
Wet was the first hour-long dance performance film ever commissioned
by the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC). Unlike other
dance films, which have generally been adaptations of theatre-based
productions, Wet was created specifically for television.
A co-production between Chunky Move and ABC TV, Wet screened
on December 2, 1998.
Concept
Wet brought together sensuous, evocative dance imagery with
the energy and brashness of Australian popular culture: surfing,
cars, home videos etc. A surreal tale set mostly in industrial
docklands and the beach, Wet centres on an emotionally trouble
swimmer and her complex fascination with a merman.
Media
Response
“…might not appeal to devotees of the classical
form but should offer plenty to those who prefer modern dance
with faster rhythms, sexy bodies and contemporary subtext…
what follows might well disturb not only hard-core dance conservatives,
but the Minister, Senator Richard Alston, who has already
expressed concern that the ABC has become a cesspit of depravity,”
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
“Wet’s comic charms are its unpredictability,
sense of the ridiculous and its satiric stereotypes,”
COURIER MAIL
For more information about Wet, check out the ABC website
- http://www.abc.net.au/arts/headspace/tv/wet/
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