Hiatus was a live performance work propelled by recent and ongoing natural disasters. Assertions that we are now experiencing “the beginnings of a new kind of future in which mega-disasters are going to be more frequent” formed both subject and inspiration for this performance – a guided bus tour to the edge of the earth. This was indeed a bus tour with a difference. Its destination was purposely imprecise.

Season

Artists

Fiona Bryant (Co-Direction, Choreography, Performance)
Lucy Farmer (Co-Direction, Performance, Costumes, Design)
Michael Avery (Composition and Guitar Performance)

Reviews

“Fiona Bryant is undoubtedly one of Melbourne’s most interesting young choreographers. When she and collaborator Lucy Farmer approached the Festival with a simple yet incredibly difficult premise – to be inspired by disaster – I had instant butterflies. The merciless forces of nature have seemed at their most ungenerous in recent years; pummeling us with messages about the urgency of changing our behaviour. Or else. That Fiona and Lucy have been brave enough to tackle these magnitudinous ideas is impressive; that they’re willing to rigorously examine them in the context of performance is something else…”

Emily Sexton, Next Wave’s former Artistic Director

http://2012.nextwave.org.au/event/hiatus/
http://www.artabase.net/exhibition/3631-hiatus