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Title Fiction / Balletlab
Published [Melbourne] : [Balletlab], [2004]

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Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 MELB  792.80994 Bal/Fic  AVAILABLE
Description 1 videodisc (DVD) (45 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Summary "Fiction is viewed as one complete work by two choreographers. Phillip Adams has purposefully created a magnificent Arabian ballet complete with flying carpet, genie and dialogue. He has translated to stage the cinematic nostalgia of a Hollywood Arabian fantasy romance. The light of dawn illuminates the desert the audience surveys the massive backdrop of a full-blown technicolour sand dunes. And so the journey begins.... As Adams' ballet draws to a close the backdrop is seamlessly flown out revealing a modern day New World of fiction that is blended with the old. Rebecca Hilton's Fiction is now performed in real space. The stage is stripped bare except for a surreal picket fence that divides the stage in half. Hilton's Fiction continues using the modern day family as a structure. The ballet drama is removed and then replaced with a stylised but highly abstracted narrative. There is a sense of deadpan humour in revealing the behavioural nuances and conflict/comfort found in the nuclear family. Fiction is a comment on the way we view our worlds in modern fiction and in retrospect mythology. The imagery of this work is epic, Hollywood technicolour juxtaposed with modern culture that is as intricate and sumptuous as a Persian carpet. " --Website
Notes Performed at Chunky Moves Studios, Southbank, Melbourne, 2004
Credits Choreographers: Phillip Adams and Rebecca Hilton ; Live sound composition by Lynton Carr
Performer Balletlab dancers: Ryan Lowe, Carlee Mellow, , Tim Harvey, Joanne White, Brooke Stamp, Clair Peters
Notes No rating given
DVD. Region unspecified
Available to Deakin staff and students only
Subject Dance -- Australia.
Modern dance -- Australia.
Genre/Form Video recordings.
Author Adams, Phillip, 1965-
Hilton, Rebecca.
Carr, Lynton
Peters, Clair
Lowe, Ryan
Mellow, Carlee
Harvey, Tim.
White, Joanne.
Stamp, Brooke
BalletLab.