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Intimate Spectacle presents Whelping Box by Branch Nebula, Matt Prest & Clare Britton
An absurd visceral spectacle, carried off with absolute conviction
Whelping Box is a breeding ground for wild things; for dogs and gods. With ritual, endurance, dancing and fighting, two performers test their limits through a series of tasks that form a darkly humorous attempt to transcend the confines of normality. With the spectators seated around the action inside a giant square whelping box-cum-catwalk, nothing escapes the eye. Glorified acts of machismo, strange rituals and power games are performed with extreme physicality at close proximity, displaying our most primal desires.
Hypnotic and exhilarating, Whelping Box is like a dog fight, a pageant, a rave and a meditation.
Image: Heidrun Lohr
Meet the artist
Branch Nebula, Matt Prest & Clare Britton
Branch Nebula is an independent collaboration between co-artistic directors Lee Wilson and Mirabelle Wouters that create works in a range of (unusual) settings.
Matt Prest and Clare Britton are Sydney based theatre makers who have collaborated together on a number of performance installations. Clare is a founding member of My Darling Patricia.
Intimate Spectacle is an independent performing arts producing company based in Sydney, Australia. It works across genres, from contemporary theatre and dance theatre to live art, interactive performance and events in between the arts and popular culture.
Contact:
- Harley Stumm
- Producer
- Intimate Spectacle
- harley@intimatespectacle.com.au
- +61 411 330 654
- http://www.intimatespectacle.com.au
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