Dance
Carriageworks to 25 Jul
The first thing that greets you, walking into Carriageworks to see On View: Live Portraits, is Khaled Sabsabi's large-scale media installation Organized Confusion. Two screens play footage of a Western Sydney Wanderers soccer crowd at the height of their barracking. Visceral and immersive, this part of the 24 Frames Per Second exhibition running in conjunction with On View helps the audience arriving to imagine the possibilities of dance as a subject for the screen.
On View pushes that even further. On entering the performance space, the audience is encouraged to walk around the five dancers, each sharing space with a projection of themselves dancing in one form or another. Once the audience takes their seats the dancers, always accompanied by film footage, make the most of the cavernous Bay 20. Despite their differing styles and quite distinct roles in the performance, the dancers meld together well.
Director Sue Healey has found ways to push both mediums, experimenting with costume and aesthetic. A gold lattice top makes a particularly effective prop. The danger in this type of performance is to balance the dynamism of the dancers onstage with the more passive onscreen reflections but Healey has created a work that is captivating and at times, quite stunning.
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