Event description
- Pain disrupts the barrier between the concealed and the illuminated. Without pain, this experimental journey risks becoming a mere lifeless digital representation, stripped of emotional depth.
Part of a diptych exploring pain and inner struggle, The Wound is a new work by Tony Yap, in collaboration with dancer Jack Riley and musician Reuben Lewis.
Drawing on ancient South-East Asian traditions of trance practices, this unique performance unfolds within a 3x3 metre space. Within this intimate arena, the artists improvise using movement, sound, text and image, driven by hidden grids to create choreographic and abstract forms.
This showing is the culmination of a two-month working period at Temperance Hall and a week-long research trip to Makassar, Indonesia, where Tony and Jack have been collaborating with Anca, a non-binary Bissu (young shaman) dancer.
Performers: Tony Yap, Jack Riley
Music: Reuben Lewis
Duration: 40 mins, no interval. Post-show Q+A.
Tony Yap is a Temperance Hall Front Studio Resident for 2025.
The Front Studio Residency has been supported by the Neilson Foundation, the City of Port Phillip, the Palais Theatre Community Fund, private donors and the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.
The Wound will be presented alongside Panjat Hujan (Climbing the Rain) in July 2025 in both Indonesia and Australia.
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