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Malmö
Torque Show

Venue: Waterside - 11 Nile St, Port Adelaide (buses provided 28 & 29 Feb, 1 Mar)
When:
- Tue 28 Feb 08:00 PM - 09:20 PM
- Wed 29 Feb 08:00 PM - 09:20 PM
- Thu 1 Mar 08:00 PM - 09:20 PM
- Fri 2 Mar 08:00 PM - 09:20 PM
- Sat 3 Mar 08:00 PM - 09:20 PM
- Sun 4 Mar 06:00 PM - 07:20 PM
Genre: Interdisciplinary / Hybrid Arts
Main Audience: Adults (18+)
No. in touring party: 6

Malmö

Presented by Vitalstatistix Theatre Company in association with Adelaide Festival

“We turn to wallpaper, benches, paintings and streets to staunch the disappearance of our true selves.” - Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness.

The home renovation: it’s the quintessential Australian mid-life crisis. Balinese haven or New York-style warehouse? Duck Egg Blue or Waikiki Sunset?

Malmö is an absurdly humorous glimpse at modern relationships through the eyes of a couple, stuck amidst an unfinished renovation, as they struggle to revitalise and reinvent their relationship while remaking their home. Malmö invites the audience into a shared space with the performers. The usual contract between performers and audience is challenged, as the audience become immersed and complicit in a real estate version of ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’.

Opening their ‘project’ to the audience, the couple gives each audience member a copy of ‘Malmö: Ideal Life’ magazine, within the pages of which their new home is featured. But there is no home, only a floor plan taped to the floor. Combining dance, movement, text and striking imagery to create a performance where Dogville meets The Block, Malmö investigates how we address the constellation and construction of our family. Malmö questions whether we have commercialised our nesting and now no longer recognise our true selves.

Torque Show

Is a company creating work that readdresses the performer/audience relationship. The company consists of long-term collaborators Ross Ganf, Vincent Crowley and Ingrid Weisfelt.

Torque Show has recently been commissioned to create the work Riot which examines Australia’s psychological approach to climate change. The commissioning partners for Riot are TippingPoint Australia, the 2012 National Regional Arts Conference and Festival and Malthouse Theatre.

Torque Show’s maiden dance theatre work Malmö will appear at the Adelaide Festival of Arts 2012. The company is currently developing a verbatim dance theatre work Farrugia with presenting partner Vitalstatistix. These works exemplify Torque Show’s unique approach to theatre/dance that continues a dramaturgical arc of releasing audiences from seating banks while renegotiating the performer/audience contract.

Photo: Justin Bernhaut

80 mins, No interval. http://www.adelaidefestival.com.au/2012/dance/malmo