L U C I D 2016

Jul 22

Heroes, icons, imagined worlds and censored dreams. We relentlessly create, monitor and edit our own image in response to an abundance of references and influences. In a hyperconscious world, how do we define ourselves?

L U C I D was an intimate work for two performers, multiple cameras and a screen, which interrogated how we imagine and reconstruct our identities. A work by Artistic Director Anouk van Dijk, L U C I D saw performers Lauren Langlois and Stephen Phillips travel to places where they can be all that they desire, fear or censor. Shapeshifting in and out of other people’s skins, they confronted themselves in reflections of others. L U C I D revealed the many faces we present to the world, a culmination of the carefully crafted or those released by fearless abandon.

Creative Team
Concept, Direction & Choreography Anouk van Dijk
Created for and with Performers Lauren Langlois & Stephen Phillips
Set & Lighting Design Ben Cobham/Bluebottle
Composition & Sound Design Jethro Woodward
Dramaturgy Anny Mokotow
Costume Design Chloe Greaves
Video Realisation Blair Hart
Video System Design Pete Brundle & James Sandri/PDA

Original Performers Lauren Langlois, Stephen Phillips

Artistic Director Anouk van Dijk
Executive Director Vanessa Pigrum
Company Producer Hillary Coyne
Production Manager Michael Carr
Stage Manager Chay Moran
Video & Lighting Operation Andre Vanderwert

Rehearsal / Artistic Assistant Tara Jade Samaya
Choreographic Secondment Luigi Vescio
Dance Secondment Kara Burdack

Season Premiere
26 May 2016 Melbourne

Awards
2017 Green Room Award for Visual Design For Ben Cobham for Bluebottle (Set and Lighting Design), Blair Hart (Video Realisation) and James Sandri and Pete Brundle for PDA (Video System Design)
2017 Green Room Award For Concept and Realisation

“Langlois and Phillips are excellent, traversing the demands of movement, text and physical performance in a work that offers beautiful moments ” The Age. Read more

A note from Anouk van Dijk

Interaction is innate in humans. We love company and in today’s plugged in and connected culture, we are in endless conversations with one another. Our screen driven worlds allow us to capture and manipulate how we are perceived to the point which our interactions are increasingly mediated. Outside of the chatter I wondered how, within the frames of the screen as mirror, we find a position for ourselves that corresponds to what is seen and what we allow ourselves to expose.

There is so often a discrepancy between what we see and what is being experienced; the point between understanding and misunderstanding is so narrow. The screen is crucial and seductive to how we as viewers map ourselves in the image of the other. The pose becomes fetish and the screen an icon maker.

The on and off screen space in L U C I D works as the generator for Lauren Langlois and Stephen Phillips to form and then extinguish some of the countless alter-egos they embody. Accessing influences from heroes to antiheroes, they relentlessly create, monitor and charge their imagined worlds. Both performers negotiate and define the boundaries in a continued conversation from within two sides of the self: revulsion and empathy often exist in the same moment.

In L U C I D we explore the attraction of duality, the masculine, the feminine, the exposed and the secret, the clarity and the chaos of impressions and expectations. This inner world is highly energetic, charged with mood swings and impressions as the performers move between public and private selves, portraits and landscapes.