The Shell, A Ghost, The Host & The Lyrebird :Sydney Dance Company
Choreographer Marina Mascarell
Composer Nick Wales
Set & Costume Designers Lauren Brincat and Leah Giblin
Lighting Designer Damien Cooper
Set & Costume: Hybridise the masculine and feminine, person and animal, biology and technology. The set and costumes work simultaneously to replicate, mimic, produce, and reproduce. Drawing with silk instruments, these mossy landscapes capture atmosphere, becoming extensions of the costumes, lichens, fungus, gills, and spinous structures forming complete sequences. Functioning garments perform as second skins, growths or protective shields. These augmentations encourage us to challenge, subvert and remind us of what’s needed to be human, alive. They compel us to consider alternative views, the moving pleats have continuous contours, changing the topography. The sound this set exudes jolts us from our slumber. Strong colour adds strength, instruction and discordant notes. The rope threads act as mycorrhizal networks - weaving and shifting between chaos and deconstructed nature. They form a breathing ever-changing habitat.
