Axeman Lullaby
Premiere
August 7th-17th 2008
Melbourne
Choreography: Phillip Adams
Composer: David Chisholm
Film and decor: Phillip Adams
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson and Niklas Pajanti
Costume design and construction: Doyle Barrow
Dancers: Joanne White, Clair Peters, Carlee Mellow and Stuart Shugg
Axeman: Laurence O'Toole
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Synopsis
Axeman Lullaby is an collaborative exploration and reflection on the physical and climatic characteristics of Australian wood chopping and early Victorian bush settlements.
Axeman Lullaby recreates a sense of Australian cinematic landscapes. In the 70's Australian cinema produced a flood of films that captured a raw and experimental identity about suburban and indigenous myth. These films offered a surreal and eerie portrayal about our past and unsettled future.
The disquiet doesn't stop until the final pendulum swing of the axe. Axeman Lullaby is a hypnotic state, shattered.