How does your show challenge audience members?
This is a show about the individual audience members. Our intention is to let them focus solely on themselves without being judged by anyone. Without the pressure of themselves, nor the society. The challenge lies within themselves.
What was the rehearsal process like?
We have devised the show together by experimenting with movements and feelings. The rehearsal process consisted mainly of improvised movements, hours of walking with direction, letting our impulses take us to the next step in the development. The music, lyrics and soundscape has helped us to shape and structure the movements into a form that takes the audience on an inner journey. It has been created purely through vocal samples and spoken word, with elements of body percussion, to keep it as organic and human as possible.
What part of contemporary Australian culture does your show engage with?
We live in a modern society where the pressure on ourselves sometimes gets enormous. It’s a place where emotions are seen as weak, and independence as a strength. We all want to be seen as perfect and carefree so we stop asking ourselves how we really are. Through this show we wish to create a moment for the audience to be with themselves and listen to their inner truth.
How does your show explore Fringe’s theme of stepping into the light?
Babelism: Love & Memory is about the individual. The purpose of this performance piece, and the purpose of engaging and involving the audience in the way that we do is the hope that we have asked the right questions to make people feel empowered within themselves, to step into the light of their individual importance. That is why only 12 people will be in the space during each performance. Our show is all about stepping into the light of self.
Venue: Metanoia at The Mechanics Institute, Black Box
Dates: September 28 – October 2
Times: 7pm, 7.45pm, 8.30pm, 9.15pm, 10pm
Tickets: $22
