Perth’s first ever performance improvisation festival is being presented by STRUT dance this November.
Presenting international contemporary improvisation artists from across dance, music and performance, the program includes twelve shows. “There’s a whole smorgasbord of diverse improvisational practice on the table for WA audiences to enjoy,” says STRUT director Paul Selwyn Norton. “From high-brow works to belly laughing shows – our MoveMe Impro Festival artists have a little something for everyone. Works range from intimate studio showings, to stage performances to site-specific works.”
The festival features a range of international and local artists, as well as one unidentified moving object, known as IMP. With his/her face hidden by a full-body, bright red catsuit, the mysterious and mischievious IMP has already made a number of preview appearances around Perth. “Audiences can rub shoulders with our festival IMP (and improvise themselves!), or sit back and enjoy the refined artistry of performers like Ros Warby and Rosalind Crisp,” says Selwyn Norton. “Or they can follow one of the international gurus of improvisation, US choreographer Michael Schumacher around the State Theatre Courtyard as he pied pipers his way out into the Cultural Centre on the waves of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Cello Suites.”
As well as performances, the festival will offer local dancers the chance to participate in improvisation workshops run by festival artists.
For more information about the festival, including the program of events head to:
http://moveme.org.au/impfest/
Below: The festival IMP makes a flash appearance in the foyer of the WA State Theatre Centre.
