2 -6 AUGUST 2022

DANCE DOUBLE BILL: BEING HERE NOW & UH OH

BEING HERE NOW
Created and performed by Ryuichi Fujimura

“Being Here Now” is made of the first two chapters of HERE NOW Trilogy, a collection of three short dance performances created and performed by Ryuichi Fujimura.

“How did I get here?”(chapter #1) investigates how our perception of time changes as we age, and how we recognize and accept our own mortality as we enter the autumn phase of life. “How I Practice My Religion”(chapter #2) traces back Ryuichi’s personal dance history and unravels what is archived in his dancing body. It asks a fundamental question, “What makes dance?”.


UH OH
Created by Mitchell Christie in collaboration S.X.A.E (Sydney Experimental Arts Ensemble)

uh oh is created and directed by Mitchell Christie in collaboration with artists of Sydney Experimental Arts Ensemble (S.X.A.E). Featuring an original soundtrack composed by S.X.A.E’s in-house dj Mason Peronchik, this multidisciplinary dance-theatre work reveals the awkwardness of very normal human interactions and celebrates everyday absurdity. Deeply theatrical, wildly athletic and a little bit cheeky.

Not your regular dance show, uh oh celebrates the brilliance of human screw-ups and predicaments. Looking at how we navigate conflict with strangers, friends, and within ourselves. uh oh illuminates the habits we try to hide, revealing them in a devilishly perverse way. At what point is something so surreal it seems real again? uh oh asks this question with the physical body in a non-linear series of fantastical happenings.

Creative Team

BEING HERE NOW
Choreographed, Written and Performed By Ryuichi Fujimura
Video Art Laura Turner
Design consultant Tobhiyah Stone Feller
Dramaturg Carlos Gomes
Composer Hamed Sadeghi

UH OH
Created By Mitchell Christie in collaboration S.X.A.E (Sydney Experimental Arts Ensemble)
Performers Maxine Carlisle, Eliza Cooper, Allie Graham, Strickland Young 
Choreography/Direction by Mitchell Christie
Original Musical Composition By Mason Peronchik
Costume/Production Design Kirsten Willis
Special Thanks to Previous Collaborators Cassidy McDermott Smith, Emalyn Knight, Jessica Goodfellow

Dates + Ticketing

Preview 2 August 2022

Season 3 - 6 August 2022

Approximate run time 1 hour 30 mins with interval

Content Note Haze, flashing lights

Supporters
BEING HERE NOW has been developed through the support of Ausdance NSW, Force Majeure and FORM Dance Project. This 2022 Old Fitz season of “Being Here Now” is supported by the Australian Government through Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body, and the NSW Government through Create NSW.

UH OH has been made possible through the support of Ausdance NSW, March Dance and The City of Sydney.