Cloé Fournier

In association with MARCH DANCE

A sound work without a score, a dance piece without steps, theatre without words.

In an abandoned women’s garment factory in Summer Hill, we will use the sound of 5 double basses and the movement of frenzied bodies to challenge audiences to see the world a little differently.

The Foul Of The Air inspired by Charlotte Wood’s award-winning book The Natural Way of Things is a genre bending performance spotlighting the unchecked forms of violence that seep out into the world around us, hidden in plain sight. This extraordinary work – part of March Dance 2021 – celebrates The Living Room Theatre’s 21st anniversary of artmaking, blurring the lines of concert, dance and theatre to inhabit both space and mind to get to the heart of what it is that allows violence to silently pervade the everyday.

The Foul Of The Air is part of the Sites of Violence research project conducted at the Sydney Environment Institute at the University of Sydney. The project explores how scholars across disciplines can work with performance artists to powerfully transmit the realities of violence, so as to build our capacity to stand in the face of the truth of violence and move away from strategies of avoidance and denial.
This performance is supported by the Sydney Environment Institute.