CLARE DYSON PERFORMANCE
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"Dyson cites philosopher Emmamual Levinas to the effect that an encounter with ‘the Other’ is the only way of revealing the truth about ourselves. The interacting subjectivities of the performers—through what I would describe as the naked effrontery (in the sense of a scandal) of their texts, and in movement that comfortably existed in the here and now, in this time spot (however past)—showed us that unsheltering in Levinas’s sense can become a homecoming and a healing. This was ambiguously spoken for in Dyson’s Magdalene-like action of washing Sinatra’s hair, and in Sinatra’s self-absorbed jouissance in a dance to Iggy Pop’s Lust for Life while she sweeps the floor, but could only truly, finally be mediated, in Dyson’s wonderful dispensation, her gift to us, by the despicable voyeur, her audience."

Doug Leonard Real Time

the voyeur
watching from a distance, without being seen		    

 

 

 

 

> images

> reviews

> film

 

brisbane premiere :: november 2009
houston premiere :: january 2010

> Australian review here [RealTime by Doug Leonard]

> Houston US review here [Dance Source Houston by Nancy Wozny]

 

US Pre Press (we caused a bit of a stir!)

> Arts Hound

> Dance Source Houston "A Peek at Company Clare Dyson's Voyeur"

> AACC Australia Week

> Houston Arts Week "Dancing Inside the Box"

> Culture map Houston "Some Houston arts groups take audience participation to a new level"

> Houston Press

> Culture map Houston

 

 

 

  

photographs by
bruce mckinven

 

 

 

 

 

 

created by

performers
clare dyson & jonathan sinatra

lighting designer & production
mark dyson

stage & costume design
bruce mckinven