When the world is unregonisable, strung up and gutted; a rotting carcass of the paradise once known - where will you be standing?

The warning signs were all there, but we chose to ignore them. We turned the volume up to mute the cries. We turned a blind eye. Now it’s eternal darkness. Enter the world of de-generator, where the destitute and desperate battle their post-apocalyptic nightmares to find solace in a world stripped of everything they had once appreciated, loved and desired.

Phluxus2’s dance installation places the audience at the centre of a black hole. The action takes place around us and through us, to activate our fear of the future, the unknown, the end, and consider our accountability to the disintegration.

"Giddying twists, spirals and extensions, sweaty limbs entwining… de-generator seeks out our innermost fears”

“In the act of sharing her anxiety… Nerida Matthaei aims perhaps to bring us all together”

RealTime Arts

Venue Format
Hall, Black Box Venue
Technical Rating
B, The production can be modified to suit most venues
Touring Party
4
Considerations

As the work is an installation it is presented in a black box theatre space (or equivalent) with the seats retracted. There is no seating and the audience moves around the space with the performers.

The award winning Phluxus2 Dance Collective was founded in 2006 as a vehicle for creating socially conscious, boundary bashing and beautifully abstract stories, told through the transforming complexities of contemporary dance.

“I left with an altered view of gravity: the performance awoke in me the ability to defy the odds: the dancers were the metaphor.” – Arts Hub

Phluxus works include the multi-award winning the machine that carries the soul, chinese whisper/broken telephone commissioned by Arts ACT Creative Fellow Nicole Canham, The Opposite of Prompt created in collaboration with Brian Lucas, Boiling Point and most recently de-generator, a post apocalyptic dance installation that is currently available for tour. Phluxus highlights include Artist in Residence at Cairns Centre of Contemporary Arts, Dancenorth, The Firkin Crane (Ireland) and currently at The Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts. Performances at the World Dance Alliance Global Summit and the American Dance Guild Festival.

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Company Website
neridance.com

Unique Selling Point

The show is an interactive dance installation that offers exquisite professional contemporary dance whilst providing a unique theater experience unlike any other. It has sales potential to a number of differing demographics including schools. We have a comprehensive teachers kit and often offer performance and workshop options which often work very well.The work has been nominated for a 2014 Australian Dance Award in the Outstanding Achievement in Independent Dance category, as well as Most Outstanding Performance by a Female for lead dancer, Lucy Ingham.

Community Engagement

This work offers unique engagement with the performance work and with the performers them selves. As the work is an installation the audience travels around the space and the dancers move in and around them. We offer a performance and workshop package for school groups who attend, allowing them to engage in the work then learn from the artists and be taught skills and repetoire from the work itself. A teachers kit is also provided to allow for on-going related work in the classroom. Community workshops can also be held on request.