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Amplification Jeff Busby & Balletlab 2011

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Amplification

Amplification is a portrait of the body in chaos. Using the car accident as a metaphor for mental/physical disassociation, Amplification examines the thresholds of the human body's response to sound, light and physical impact.

Developed through research conducted at a hospital emergency ward and the Melbourne morgue, Amplification magnifies the 1.6 seconds ‘disassociation' freeze time which occurs at the moment of impact.

Skidding, sliding and crashing into a world of body bags, pain, healing, reality and unreality, Amplification deconstructs and reconstructs the site of impact with scientific fascination and a morbid fascination with the body in chaos.

Amplification is an exploration of densely layered, highly technical and studied partnering; revealing the possibilities of death, ritual, burial and torture within the form of an installation. 

 

"Amplification resonates like a gothic story-ballet, even as it eschews drama and emotion to create a chilling text about bodies near death or killed in car crashes... Possibly the city's best this year." - Lee Christofis, The Australian 

"A raw and powerful work, which at times is confronting to the point of discomfort. Amplification is not for the faint-hearted or the prudish." - Jane Howard, Sunday Herald Sun

"A deeply chilling experience." - Jonathan Marshall, Inpress

"The last ten minutes of Amplification will stay with you forever with such spellbinding power of vision of the Afterlife." - Philipa Rothfield, Real Time Magazine

 

 

 

Performances

NEXT PERFORMANCES:

WHITE BIRD DANCE, USA
23-25 January 2014

 

WORLD PREMIERE
Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne
9 September 1999

DANCE MASSIVE 2011
Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne
22 - 26 March 2011

MONA FOMA 2011
Trilogy (Amplification, Miracle, Above)
Princess Wharf I, Hobard
21 – 23 January 2011

AUSTRALIAN DANCE AWARDS 2009
Amplification Excerpt
Victorian Arts Centre

Experimental Performing Arts Center (EMPAC)
Troy, New York, USA
2007

PS122
New York, USA
2006

ROMANIA SIBIU INTERNATIONAL THEATRE FESTIVAL 2005
Sophia, Bulgaria

VARNA INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL 2005
Sophia, Bulgaria

SEOUL INTERNATIONAL DANCE FESTIVAL 2004
Seoul, Korea

AUSTRALIAN PERFORMING ARTS MARKET 2004
Spotlight Program

Brisbane Powerhouse, Brisbane
2002

GERMANY INDEPENDENCE DAYS FESTIVAL 2001
Kampnagel Theatre, Hamburg, Germany

CONTEMPORARY DANCE FESTIVAL ULAANBAATRA 2000
Mongolia

QUEER UP NORTH FESTIVAL 2000
Green Room Theatre, Manchester, UK

NEW MOVES INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 2000
As part of the Australia Council International Exchange Program
Tron Theatre, Glasgow, Scotland

Seymour Centre, Sydney
C/O One Extra Dance Company
1999