Anouk van Dijk’s latest creation for Chunky Move, Lucid, opens in Melbourne this May. Featuring Complexity of Belonging’s Lauren Langlois and Stephen Phillips, Lucid is an intimate performance for a dancer, and actor and multiple cameras.
Lucid explores the way in which we form, monitor and edit our own image in response to our heroes and icons, our imagined worlds and censored dreams. In our hyper-conscious times, dreams are available in the palm of a hand, the flick of a thumb. Every gesture, every twitch in our face is critiqued and controlled; private experiences are more publically accessible than ever before. In Lucid, two performers travel to places where they can be all that they desire, fear or censor, shape shifting in and out of other people’s skins, searching for pieces of themselves in the reflection of another. In a world where every private and public moment can be documented, constructed and edited, Lucid interrogates the endless monologue in which we admonish, imagine and reconstruct our identities.
Lucid plays Chunky Move Studios, Southbank, Melbourne from 26 May until 12 June. For more information, including bookings, head to http://chunkymove.com.au/
