Disagreeable Object 2009
A pint-sized performance installation with a massive twist, Disagreeable Object was a redevelopment of a truly original work by one of Australia's most intriguing dancers and independent choreographers, Michelle Heaven. Audiences were positioned in a tiny viewing space that afforded skewed glimpses into the bizarrely proportioned interior of an old-fashioned house. Through the clever use of mirrors and lighting, a sense of absurdly exaggerated scale and impossible physics transformed into scenes in which gravity itself began behaving badly. Performed by Heaven and actor Brian Lucas, the effect was of an old silent film that has been warped by the passage of time. Disagreeable Object was the second production for Next Move, a series of performances created by the next generation of Australian dance makers and presented by Chunky Move.
Choreography and Performer Michelle Heaven
Collaborator and Performer Brian Lucas
Design Ben Cobham
Composition Bill McDonald
Costume Design Louise McCarthy
Costumier John R Van Gastel
Artistic Director Gideon Obarzanek
Executive Producer Rachael Azzopardi
Production and Operations Manager Chris Mercer'
Business and Program Manager Hillary Coyne
Project Production Manager Rebecca Anderson
Stage Manager Frog
Stage Management Secondment Blair Hart
Season premiere
21 July 2009 Melbourne
“Bizarre, macabre, hilarious” The Age.
Michelle Heaven Image: Louisa Bailey
