DANCE MARATHON is an interactive, duration-based performance event inspired by the physically gruelling spectator sport from Depression-Era North America. It’s a genuine endurance contest and staged performance event where hopeful amateurs mix with bluemouth inc. performers under the direction of floor judges and the merciless movement of the clock to shape participation theatre.
DEATH BY WATER is a performance installation which unfolds continuously over three hours outside, beneath the blanket of a winter’s sky. Audiences are transported at regular intervals from a nearby funeral home to the performance site, where they experience the show from inside a heated, plexiglass shed.
HOW SOON IS NOW? (The Memory of Bombs) is an alarming look at group hysteria and scapegoating in the age of terrorism. The audiences are brought together to witness the capture and determine the execution of ‘the big bad wolf’. Inspired by the classic children’s tale Peter And The Wolf and Fritz Lang’s 1931 film M, and Emir Kusturica’s 1995 film Underground, this performance work examines the tensions that form between individual desire and societal demand.
LENZ is a tale of mental illness and murder. Three simultaneous performance installations. Three lives spiralling towards a terrifying collision. A poetic interplay of dance, theatre, music and film performed in three rooms of a downtown hotel.
AMERICAN STANDARD is a one-man, seven character sideshow about the pursuit of happiness in the age of lost innocence as presented in a barbershop.
WHAT THE THUNDER SAID is a performance work that evokes the struggle for acceptance in the calm before the family storm. Originally created in 2002 as the third part of the Dora Award-winning five-hour trilogy entitled Something About a River, WHAT THE THUNDER SAID explores the conditions of ambivalence, utilizing the family as a model to examine the political and emotional contradictions that face today’s society.