Still from Falling Like A Bird, 2010 by Lisa Businovski
Lisa Businovski
Falling Like A Bird, 2010
Lisa Businovski’s Falling Like A Bird encompasses documentation of the research and development phase of an upcoming contemporary performance of the same name.
A team of Australian artists including Dawn Albinger (QLD), Cathie Travers (WA), Margaret Cameron (VIC), Linsey Pollak (QLD), Annette Tesoreiro (NSW), Julie Robson (WA) and Nikki Heywood (NSW) are developing an original music theatre work for presentation in 2011-2012.
Inspired by the work of French feminist philosopher Hélène Cixous, this contemporary chamber opera is a delicate but charged exploration of preparing to take risk, navigating the unknown, and encountering dis/grace, com/passion and weight/lessness.
The performance features voice, piano accordion, hybrid wind instruments and amplified shock cord. Live and sampled sound is integrated with sensuous imagery derived from the study of Australian birds in their natural habitat and the physical manipulation of lines, flight paths and edges.
The images in Lisa’s work are compiled to show contemporary performance in a different light. The intimate setting of this research and development phase has helped her create photos that show “the breath” of performers as they tackle the dramaturgy of how to fall like a bird and not like a stone.
In addition to In Transit, plans for projecting in other capital cities are underway, and spaces under bridges and alleyways on the east coast are being sought for presentation in 2011.
Still from Falling Like A Bird, 2010 by Lisa Businovski
Still from Falling Like A Bird, 2010 by Lisa Businovski
Still from Falling Like A Bird, 2010 by Lisa Businovski
Still from Falling Like A Bird, 2010 by Lisa Businovski
Still from Falling Like A Bird, 2010 by Lisa Businovski