The urban landscape is a giant playground for Parkour practitioners. If you haven’t come across Parkour before, it’s a physical discipline that is all about moving through an urban environment in the most efficient way possible… traversing buildings and other obstacles, Spider Man style. At the heart of parkour is a mindset of creativity – a notion that the obstacles encountered shouldn’t be avoided but engaged with to find a path. Whilst artistry isn’t the aim of parkour, it is nonetheless exciting to watch.
And that’s why Force Majeure and Powerhouse Youth Theatre have come together to present Jump First, Ask Later, a work that tells the collective stories of six young champions of Western Sydney’s underground parkour and street style community. Jump First, Ask Later is an urban choreographic portrait of the streets of Fairfield, Western Sydney — the most culturally diverse region in Australia. The work uses urban freestyle forms and contemporary dance to creative a physical narrative that explores violence, migration, redemption and ultimately, the collective freeddom that the six young artists found by mapping their city through dance.
Choreographed by Byron Perry and featuring performers Joseph Carbone, Justin Kilic, Jimmy James Pham, Johnny Do, Natalie Siri and Patrick Uy, Jump First, Ask Later will premiere at Powerhouse Youth Theatre (PYT) in Fairfield, 19-29 August 2015. Book at Eventbrite.