It Comes In Waves

You are cordially invited to a surprise party. With the guidance of your host and help from the other guests you help get ready for the big surprise – but when it arrives, it’s clear no amount of planning can prepare you for what lies ahead. Accompanied by dance, theatre and music, no two audience experiences are the same in this heartrending exploration of loss, and joyful celebration of life.

It Comes in Waves  is an extraordinary immersive theatrical performance about embracing the unknown.

Presented by bluemouth inc. and Necessary Angel.

CAFE SARAJEVO

An immersive theatrical experience exploring the borders that divide and unite us, within the framework of a live podcast

Café Sarajevo follows protagonist, Lucy Simic, as she travels to her father’s birthplace, Bosnia. Along the way, we explore divided cities and the notion of “human nature”, asking the question: what causes a nation to divide, and begin to hate the very people and culture that it used to see at its own?

With story, dance, game, music, 360° video, and by casting the audience as characters in the story, internationally acclaimed performance makers bluemouth inc. create a fast-paced, intimate, and thoughtful exploration about nationalism, racial bias and war tourism.

Dance Marathon

DANCE MARATHON is an interactive, duration-based performance event inspired by the physically gruelling spectator sport from Depression-Era North America. It’s a genuine endurance contest and staged performance event where hopeful amateurs mix with bluemouth inc. performers under the direction of floor judges and the merciless movement of the clock to shape participation theatre.

“To say that Dance Marathon breaks down the fourth wall is an understatement. It eliminates it.” (Vancouver Sun, February 2010)

DEATH BY WATER

is a performance installation occurring in continuous cycles over the course of three hours. This interdisciplinary performance of film, theatre, music and dance taking place outdoors under the blanket of a winter’s sky. Audiences are transported at regular intervals from a nearby funeral home to the performance site, where they experience the show from inside an insulated plexiglass shed.

HOW SOON IS NOW

(THE MEMORY OF BOMBS) is an alarmingly effective look at group hysteria and scapegoating in the age of terrorism. The audience is drawn together to witness the capture and execution of the big bad wolf. Inspired by the classic children’s tale Peter And The Wolf and Fritz Lang’s 1931 film M, and Emir Kusturica’s 1995 film Underground, this performance work examines the tensions that form between individual desire and societal demand.

LENZ

is a tale of mental illness and murder. Three simultaneous performance installations.Three lives spiralling towards a terrifying collision. A poetic interplay of dance, theatre, music and film performed in three rooms of a downtown hotel.

AMERICAN STANDARD

is a one-man, seven character sideshow about the pursuit of happiness in the age of lost innocence performed in a barbershop.

WHAT THE THUNDER SAID

is a Dora Award winning performance work that evokes the struggle for acceptance in the calm before the family storm. Originally created in 2002 as the third part of a five-hour trilogy entitled Something About a River, What The Thunder Said explores the notion of ambivalence, utilizing the family as a model to examine the political and emotional contradictions that face today’s society.