TANGERINE HOUR

CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT //  By NDRNCE

Presented by Metro Arts

Witness this contemporary, physical performance grounded in suburban intimacy, created by emerging performance ensemble, NDRNCE.

Suburbia is set alight and bathed in grapefruit. A town burns in silence, sun slinks into retreat.

Two women lay their bodies beneath a lamppost, taking advantage of fleeting light to spill their hearts to one another, willingly accepting of the pain, gain, love and acceptance true honesty has to offer. Here, they find themselves in the Tangerine Hour. The softest and most powerful time of day, transformation is bound to take place as long as they commit themselves to honesty.

When fear overcomes truth, Mothman finds herself caught in the Tangerine Hour, unable to free herself from the flickering lamplight. Unaware of her trap, she flies in an infinite loop of denial, fixation and warped memories while trying to navigate by the wrong moon. Tangerine Hour is a contemporary, physical performance grounded in soft light and suburban intimacy, created by emerging performance ensemble, NDRNCE.

DATES

SHOWING 1:
7pm, Thu 8 Apr

SHOWING 2:
12pm, Sat 10 Apr

VENUE

Factory Lane + New Benner Theatre
Metro Arts, West End

DURATION

60 mins

AGES + WARNINGS

Suitable for ages 15+. Contains some coarse language, and references to self harm.

MUSIC AND MOTION: PATTERNS IN THE SOIL

CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT //  By Tess King

Presented by Metro Arts

Come and experience music that is more than live, it’s alive. Surround sound and reactive visuals breathe music to life in this immersive experience.

What is alive in the world around you? Would you be surprised at how much people miss every day? Organicism is the idea that everything, when seen as a whole, is alive. A systemic kaleidoscope that reflects itself over and over yet reveals different aspects with every angle. It is cyclical in this way, much like ourselves. We experience cycles as individuals and societies, making our memories and their ever-changing contexts a fluid, living thing.

Music and Motion: Patterns in the Soil places you in the centre of a flowing audio-visual landscape. As if you were travelling through it, or it through you, the landscape morphs around different reflections of organicism. Perhaps it is a solo cellist, a bird on the precipice of flight, or a surge of electricity as a computer starts. These pieces of life feedback and reflect variations of themselves, creating morphing spirals of patterns.

DATES

OPEN STUDIO SESSION 1:
11:30am – 2:30pm, Sat 10 Apr

OPEN STUDIO SESSION 2:
5 – 7pm, Sat 10 Apr

Please note, registrations are not required for these sessions.

VENUE

Factory Lane + New Benner Theatre
Metro Arts, West End

SLUDGE BANK

CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT //  By Chance Collective

Presented by Metro Arts

This camp comedy brings horror genres to meet real-life climate disaster fears in a hyper-stylised performance experience. 

A snarky slime-creature is lurking in the pipes of a newly erected Meanjin (Brisbane) development called Riverbank Towers. This inner-city, upper-class apartment building is rapidly filling with the mysterious, sentient slime that won’t stop until it has consumed every cavoodle in sight. It is up to the residents to put aside their body-corporate bureaucracy, paleo vs vegan diet debates, and Instagram activism to save themselves and everyone else in the face of global disaster.

Featuring an original song by feminist, indie-pop band Bad Sext, Sludge Bank is Chance Collective’s stickiest show yet.

DATES

SHOWING 1:
8:30pm, Fri 9 Apr

SHOWING 2:
7pm, Sat 10 Apr

VENUE

New Benner Theatre
Metro Arts, West End

DURATION

60 mins

AGES + WARNINGS

Suitable for ages 15+. Contains some coarse language, depictions of violence, depictions of death or dying, and references to sex.