Awkward Connection

I woke up early again this morning and, as usual, could not get back to sleep. So I went into the office with the best intentions to work productively through this period of exile from my slumber.

But I cant work: I just have to purge myself of my experience of the evening prior.

When my girls were little I used to subject them to intense bouts of classical music at 'full noise' in the car where there was no escape. I'd ask them to close their eyes and listen to the music and tell me of the story that was emerging in their mind's eye. As young as three, four and five years old the stories I would entice out of them affirmed what I, and probably everybody else, already knew; that music speaks to each of us in our own unique language. That is to say, what I see when I hear is not what you see when you hear.

I am certain now, having experienced Awkward Connections at Fringe, that Contemporary Dance is the greatest medium through which artists can translate their own language into one that we can all understand.

From the comical first theatrical opening until they lay motionless in their final exhausted state I was totally captivated by each and everyone of the artists. But at that exact moment that Ezgi Gungor, Sarah Chaffey and Scott Elstermann circled each other with an intensity that could cause climate change and then imploded into an entanglement of bodies that moved with more fluidity than mercury, I knew I was watching something unique; something special.

These amazing artists walk among us every day, not yet famous. I hope that one day they become more so. Then others will get to hear the language I saw last night.

Awkward Connections - Now showing........but only to those who have already purchased a ticket.

For everyone else.....you must beg for an encore performance.

Producers & Choreographers: Rikki Bremner, Sarah Chaffey, Scott Elstermann, Ezgi Gungo // Performers: Rikki Bremner, Sarah Chaffey, Scott Elstermann, Ezgi Gungo, Natalie Kolobaric, Russell Thorpe // Costume Designer: Lea Goodall   (It’s Getting Awkward) // Lighting Designer: Joe Lui // Stage Manager: Georgia Smith  // Composer: Dane Yates