Watch This Space, a surreal, evocative piece of anti-dance devised by BabyshadS that explores relationships with physical and emotional space while fusing expressionistic and absurd performance styles, is on at BATS 14,15 and 16 September for the Dance Your Socks Off! Festival 2006. The production is joined by collaborators from all over Wellington's art community....Watch This Space, a surreal, evocative piece of anti-dance devised by BabyshadS that explores relationships with physical and emotional space while fusing expressionistic and absurd performance styles, is on at BATS 14,15 and 16 September for the Dance Your Socks Off! Festival 2006. The production is joined by collaborators from all over Wellington's art community....Devised by BabyshadS with international musicians and directed by Hannah Clarke, Watch This Space promises to explore different situations and different relationships often resulting in hilarious physical comedy.

Watch This Space
Devised By BabyshadS
Directed By Hannah Clarke
14,15,16 September BATS Theatre
for Dance Your Socks Off!

Self-professed devisors and 'anti-dancers' the BabyshadS (Milo Haigh, Sherilee Kahui and
Jake Preval) take on a multitude of characters and caricatures placing them in different situations with different relationships and pushing their physical boundaries to explore how the human form changes in each. Director Hannah Clarke says, "The piece evolves with a fluidity and spontaneity that is compelling. The themes are thought provoking without ever becoming didactic. This work resonates with youthful honesty and playful risk."

BabyshadS, most recently seen in silhouette for Branwen Miller's Noisy Shadows earlier this year, devised Watch This Space specifically for the BATS Dance Your Socks Off! Festival 2006. They wanted to create a dance piece that was accessible to all audiences, rather than exclusively for the dance community. Influenced by such dance revolutionaries as Mary Wigman, Anita Berber and DV8 Physical Theatre, BabyshadS have strived to strip dance back to its bare roots: the human form exploring space.

Joined by collaborators from all over Wellington's art community including international musicians, theatre students and graduates and lighting designer Jimmy Sutcliffe (Generator), the BabyshadS have also lured theatre maker Hannah Clarke (Milo's Wake (national tour), everything. now, Theatre Militia's Symposium) back to Wellington to direct this theatrical dance exploration. Devised with live musicians Asami Doko on the traditional Japanese Shamisen, Justin Taulu of bands Talent Quest and Anti-Quest on drums and musical jack-of-all trades Dan Hannah on bass and keyboards, in performance, the soundscape for Watch This Space will be partially improvised and totally unique.

Fusing both expressionistic and absurd performance styles with surreal, stylised design, Watch This Space and expect bold performances, stunning visuals, spectacular sound and plenty of nautical nonsense -
ENDS

What: Watch This Space By BabyshadS
When: 9pm 14, 15, 16 September 2006
Where: BATS Theatre
1 Kent Terrace
Cost: $14/ $12concs
Bookings: (04) 8024175