Event | Mutating Roots | |||||||
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Venue | Gluttony, Adelaide, SA | |||||||
Umbrella Event | Adelaide Fringe Festival 2019 | |||||||
First Date | 26 February 2019 | |||||||
Opening Date | 26 February 2019 | |||||||
Last Date | 3 March 2019 | |||||||
Dates Estimated | No | |||||||
Status | Unknown | |||||||
World Premiere | Yes | |||||||
Description | Haunted by ghostly characters, condemned by ancient misdemeanours and outcast to wander the world between the restrained and the outlandish, Mayu explores a Japanese woman's identity away from her cultural home through extreme physical challenges of circus and movement.
She must navigate assumptions and stereotypes, both cultural and gendered, finding herself becoming a cross cultural being, and then, a lost cultural being. Playing with ideas of what it is to be an absent Japanese woman in her cultural home and a Japanese woman in Australia, this strange and otherworldly performance wil |
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Description Source | Website | |||||||
Primary Genre | Other | |||||||
Secondary Genre |
Circus
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Text Nationality | Australia | |||||||
Production Nationality | Australia | |||||||
Event Status | Completed | |||||||
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Event Identifier | 143747 | |||||||
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