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1 Sling Backs, High Heels and Sensible Shoes Vulcana Women's Circus , 2008 single work drama 'Set in a lost corner of an unnamed hospital 20 performers investigate the dichotomy of patients and carers and the relationships between women in this highly charged place of extreme emotions - illness, recovery, pain, hope, birth and death. Through circus, movement and music they describe a combination of the raw and the fragile, the bloody and the beautiful, the broken and the mended, the passion and the frustration.' Source: www.vulcana.org.au (Sighted 21/11/08)
1 Strange Creatures Vulcana Women's Circus , 2006 single work drama 'Strange Creatures' is the result of the company's latest community project; a collaboration between the company's emerging circus performers and women from Brisbane's Deaf community. The production uses circus and physical theatre to explore advances in reproductive technology and the impact this has had on society's attitudes to conception and childbearing. Source: http://www.theprogram.net.au/featuresSub.asp?id=4335&state=1 (Sighted 13/12/2006)
1 2 Home Fictions Vulcana Women's Circus , Lucinda Shaw (composer), 2004 single work drama 'Home Fictions is a collaborative work exploring the mythologies of home and the elusive idea of "homeland". The performers play with the sensations, memories, and fantasies of home using the extra-ordinary language of circus. As they inhabit suspended living spaces that are the focal points of our lives, the flying kitchen table is a site of domestic dreaming, and the couch that won't remain fixed to the floor is capable of swallowing not just the lost remote but whole lives as well. The billowing curtains of childhood memory are scaled and twisted into new shapes with bodies entwined. Borders are blurred and what exists underneath - the layers of land, memory and history on which our homes are built - emerges from the shadows and is given expression.' http://www.brisbanepowerhouse.com.au/(Sighted 16/12/04)
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