(RE)PURPOSE: THE MVMNT | NATALIE ABBOTT
In (re)PURPOSE: the MVMNT, Abbott appropriates the influential ballet solo, The Dying Swan (1905), to examine our expectations of dance performances, female characters and the limits of the body. She takes a lateral, multi-directional approach that both resists and caters to these expectations.
Abbott's work regularly explores the dynamics of disparate bodies in space through experiences of vulnerability—finding comfort in discomfort as a communal experience. (re)PURPOSE: the MVMNT is a duet performed by two bodies that are representative of stages in a lifecycle—navigating linear ideas of birth, life, middle/void and death. Using borrowed and recontexualised signifiers from dance, the horror genre and pop music, Abbott creates a lo-fi, dramatized spectacle that begins with familiarity before unraveling to reveal the ungroundedness of image-consumerism in the Internet Age.
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Early part of show was promising but then deteriorated into self conscious indulgence
Super weird, naturalistic. Loved it but difficult to follow the plot.
It was a great adventure dance performance. First performance was perfect. It will more better if it can adjust second part performance
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