SXMCV AXN QLP CHERRIE BLAZE GAYTAS GAYNT ACTGAY CANVAS FT EVOLUTION

Media Partners

Scene Pics

LATEST NEWS

Pope’s Christmas gift: anti-gay vilification

Gay activists have condemned Pope Benedict XI’s Christmas reported warning that gays and transgenders are as great a threat to the planet as environmental destruction.

Happy Christmas, marriage is over

The battle over same-sex marriage in California is continuing despite the passage of Proposition Eight, a referendum to ban gay nuptials, on US Election Day last month.

UN split over gay law reform call

The United Nations (UN) General Assembly has split over the issue of decriminalising gay sex worldwide.

Bashed Cairns man to get $40,000 compo

A Cairns gay man who was bashed will receive almost $40,000 in compensation.

Rudd urged to help gays on welfare

Calls for independent advocate in wake of reforms
100%
-
+
7
Show options

Subscribe to Newsletter

Please register on this site to receive the weekly Evolution Online newsletter.
Evolution Newsletter
Please register to the site before you can sign for a list.
No account yet? Register
Blurring the line twixt circus and dance
sophia woods.jpgA piece of the queer underground found it’s way to a Brisbane Powerhouse stage in August, writes Danielle Uhlmann.

Created and performed by Sofia Woods, Blurred Lines is a cutting edge and highly physical, one-woman journey through different persona’s and gender identities.

Woods tells the story of finding solace in multiplicity, bravely straddling the artistic divide between circus and dance.

This gender misfit asks us to consider the fluidity of identity while digging deep into the queer aesthetic.

Bypassing the familiar ‘trick’ based presentation of trapeze, Sofia presents an innovative and complex movement vocabulary. 

The opening sequence, performed in and around this circus apparatus, creates an environment, inviting the audience to view this space as something else, as a world that induces change. 

All the while, the performer moves an extraordinary dancing body that ducks, weaves, spins and seeks comfort in this space. 

Blurred Lines is a visual and sonic feast set against a layered landscape which is slowly stripped away, exposing a series of mirrors revealing projected apparitions and sites for self-reflection.

With a fascinating blend of popular and originally composed music we are taken through many worlds from sassy nightclub to drag king performance and then into the quieter moments of reflection and self-exploration.

Sofia provides a brave and generous performance.  The audience is rewarded with powerful images while watching her visibly morph and embody the butch/femme, masculine/feminine and the space between.

This is indeed a show where the elusive mechanics of transformation appear before your very eyes.

Queer, not queer or not sure – it doesn’t matter. This show reaches everyone – representing the all too familiar struggle with identity and how to present ourselves in this demanding world.

Perhaps the core of this performance communicates that there is no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ way – but many ways, and within this diversity we can find a sense of who we really are.

Blurred Lines appeared at the Brisbane Powerhouse Visy Theatre.
Comments (0)add comment
feedSubscribe to this comment's feed

Write comment
smaller | bigger
password
 

busy