STRUT Dance will be presenting William Forsythe’s seminal work One Flat Thing, Reproduced in Perth this week, in the State Theatre Centre’s Courtyard.
While the work may not be new, this performance will be unlike any of the other renditions of this famous Forsythe work. For starters the work has never been performed in an outdoor setting. In addition, the piece is presented as an installation, with the audience free to move around the Courtyard space and into the upper gallery during the 20 minute work.
Performed by 14 independent dance artists from all over Australia and New Zealand, it’s also the first time that One Flat Thing, Reproduced has been presented by a group that isn’t a major dance company.
One Flat Thing, Reproduced is the third part of a larger Forsythe work The Questioning of Robert Scott that takes its inspiration from Scott’s own ill-fated race across the ice to identify the South Pole, which encountered great hardship, eventually costing him his own life. Forsythe’s response to this tragic failure is to create a plane of 20 icy tables in counterpoint to the highly organised human movement above it – a choreographic obstacle course over which Forsythe’s continual fascination for complex structure plays out.
One Flat Thing, Reproduced will be presented at 6.45pm, 29 March – 1 April at the State Theatre Courtyard. The performance is free.