Metal (Asia TOPA)
Five dancers and eight metal-heads share the stage in this meeting of cultures, art forms, languages and belief systems.
Melbourne-based dance company Lucy Guerin Inc collaborates with Ensemble Tikoro, a heavy metal choir who come direct from the underground music scene in Bandung for their first appearance outside Indonesia.
Metal was created in both Melbourne and Bandung, a town that sits beneath Tangkuban Perahu. This active volcano embodies the idea of one world spilling into another, where the crust of the earth is thin and what is known and not known converge with explosive energy.
Co-created by Lucy Guerin and Ensemble Tikoro’s Robi Rusdiana, the performance sees heavy metal and traditional throat singing collide with contemporary Australian dance in an encounter that ultimately transforms them both, as the ghosts of tradition merge with music and dance to invent new mythologies for a globalised world.
NOTE: RRP listed is for a double pass
Metal - Development Trailer December 2019 from Lucy Guerin Inc on Vimeo.
Feedback/Comments
Loved every minute. As the final show before lockdown I felt privileged.
Unique and interesting!
Interesting unique show!
Enjoyed some elements of the visual-music enjoyable but others dragging and irratable
Crazy amazing!
You don't get many chances to see Contemporary dance accompanied by an Indonesia accapella death metal choir. Thanks on the house !
Very impressive with the whole present.
Quite something else, the melting of metal music and dance.
I tried to take something positive away from this performance, but all I have is bewilderment.
A considered and complex fusion of styles and ideas.
Loved the whole experience of dance and sounds coming together.
Loved the demonic voices. Set design pretty plain, but a truly unique and memorable production
live music was mesmerising, good variety of contrast between sections
Loved it! Loved the precision movements of the dancers to start with, separate to the throat singing of the musicians, and then slowly change as the two groups overlapped, and finally enmeshed. Love Lucy Guerin's works and this collaboration was so interesting.
very interesting, dance combined with a throat singing style metal vocals
It was wonderful, metal side of our nature, we all have it...
Interesting and unique
Great dance & gutteral sound
Liked the dancers
Interesting at times, a little monotonous but I did enjoy various parts.
Performers had undoubted skills. Did it engage us, no. But that's the wonder of the Arts
Loved it. Very unusual.
Composition is mesmerising.
Fabulous dancers meshed with unusual channting
It took 10 minutes to get into it, but after that it was quite something. The dancing and the accompanying music were quite extraordinary and all in all an experience quite unlike any other. Glad I went.
Not my type of singing