The Rogue Tool 1998
In the Rogue Tool, six dancers stormed their way through a choreographic puzzle: a solitary figure found himself the rogue in a herd of origami elephants, limbs were propped up and immobilised, and forty characters bit the dust. The Rogue Tool began life as a commission for Batsheva Dance Company in 1996, and Selwyn-Norton reworked 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 C.o.r.r.u.p.t.e.d 1 & 2.
Creative Team
Choreography Paul Selwyn Norton
Lighting Design Damien Cooper
Original Performers Fiona Cameron, Brett Daffy, Lisa Griffiths, Kirstie McCracken, Byron Perry, Luke Smiles
Artistic Director Gideon Obarzanek
Executive Producer Angharad Wynne-Jones
World Premiere
September 1998 Sydney
Touring Seasons
1998 Adelaide
1998 Melbourne
“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.
