Over the fence

Perth-based Taffyworks invites viewers to peek inside a green world at the Mandurah Performing Arts Centre next month. This is The Fence, a multimedia dance work and installation, created by Kathleen Szalay. Kathleen invites us into the backyard of her home state in Maine, where the grass is indeed very green, and getting greener.

In the Mandurah Performing Arts Centre will be three wooden boxes sitting side by side, with traces of a white picket fence in their design. Peer into these boxes, and in each you will see a tablet screen and Kathleen dancing from one to another. Shot from birds eye view by independent Perth filmmaker Fionn Mulholland, you will feel as though you’re looking in on the three different little worlds the dancer moves between.

Elise Reitze’s music completes this modern music box, intertwining themes of childhood fantasy into haunting reverberations. Follow Kathleen between her boxes as the green becomes greener and both fireflies and shadows try to capture her attention and ours.

The Fence installation will run from 19th September-2nd October in the foyer of Mandurah Performing Arts Centre. Five special interactive performances will bring the installation to life at MPAC’s “A Swell Day Out” on Sunday, 25 September. The installation and performances are free. For more info contact Kathleen: taffyworks@gmail.com