cabaret-circus-workshop for performance artists and amateurs
The Australian Company Finucane & Smith create intimate theatrical spectacles that mine old style entertainment genres including cabaret, burlesque, variety, silent film, vaudeville, and the gothic, to create indelible images of gender, violence, power and desire. This one-day workshop was aimed at investigating provocations, indeed, these artists provoke by addressing issues of submission and freedom, gender and sexuality, power/authority and lust. Azaria Universe, Yumi Umiumare and Maude Davey transportd participants into the world of circus, butoh, melodrama and character drama, winking, as well as masculinity and femininity, to encourage them to research the possibilities of incorporating provocation into their creativity as well as their lives.
