Blue Moves
Blue Moves is an entertaining and bumpy ride through the world of the female psyche, exploring the humour, pain and peril of a night on the town. With nods to David Lynch and Alfred Hitchcock, this work subverts female archetypes from the world of film including the femme fatale, the damsel in distress and the paranoid wallflower. It has a soundtrack including the Everly Brothers, a live rendition of Blue Moon, and Kylie Minogue's 'Got To Be Certain'. It also includes original contemporary songs composed by The Screamers, finishing with the suitably suggestive and relevant reworking of 'Paper Doll'. The work is timeless, being evocative of women of ages past whilst being thoroughly current, fresh, and feisty, presenting a new breed of victim and/or heroine. Blue Moves is a darkly comic journey. It is conceptually and formally ambitious exploring notions of being in and out of control, the fine line between laughter and tragedy, poise and disaster, and the sadness underlying humour and bravado.
Blue Moves premiered at The Seymour Centre, Sydney in March 2003, produced by Onextra.
Dramaturgy: Keith Gallasch
Set Design: Imogen Ross
Lighting: Simone Wise
Initial dramaturgical assistance by UK choreographer Wendy Houstoun. Excerpts of this work were performed at the Melbourne International Arts Festival 2003 at the invitation of Robyn Archer.
"An ode to the notion of femme fatales, the sadness underlying humour and the darker side of a girl's night out, The Fondue Set have once again delivered an engaging and riveting piece of dance."
Dylan Behan, Revolver 2003.
"The Fondue Set has the ability to move from frenetic comedy into the slow motion ugly humour of a falling down drunk dance and onto the dark pathos of attempted seemliness, revealing...a winning capacity for complexity supported by precise timing and great presence".
Keith Gallasch, Realtime 2002.
"Through an ensemble of dance, movement and monologue the work steps beyond the archetypes offered by film to present a more contemporary brand of mademoiselle."
Ghita Loebenstein, Realtime 2003.
