BIRTHDAY SUIT
Damien Welch
Birthday Suit demonstrates how clothes affect our personalities, and how personalities affect our clothes. We use fashion to mislead, and to project an image of ourselves. We dress up when we feel low, or dress down to seem cool. Clothes say as much as we wish them to, and sometimes more than we realise. I have my own love-hate relationship with fashion; Birthday Suit comes from my belief that we would all be happier (and colder) if we all just stayed naked.

FOLD
Robert Curran
Our skin protects us from the elements, distinguishes one from another, and serves as a canvas for our own decorations. It is the surface communicating our most intimate messages and holding our deepest secrets. Each fold of fabric pulled over our skin is simply another layer that hides, or defines. I am so grateful to Eugene Ughetti for his fearless flexibility and Ryan Euinton for his grace and vision. Thank you also to South Pacific Fabrics for realising my vision for Fold.

NOCTURNAL PHANTASM
Timothy Brown
The residents of Venice were regularly treated to the spectral apparition of the heiress Marchesa Casati out on her midnight stroll, accompanied by her two cheetahs on jewelled leashes and a live serpent worn as a necklace, her huge feral eyes were blackened with kohl. A brocade cloak covered her nude flesh, bruised by her lover's tooth marks. "To be different is to be alone. I do not like what is average. So I am alone." Marchesa Casati 1881 - 1957

SOUTH OF EDEN
Daniel Gaudiello
South of Eden is inspired by a feature I saw on the ABC about female escorts living in a hotel. Men come and go, and the escorts' only hope is to meet a foreigner with the money to take them out of their situation and build them a brick home in the suburbs. In the documentary, that man never comes. When asked if they had ever been in love, one girl replied: "I don't know what love is ..."

TRACE
Alice Topp
Trace explores the relationship between dance and design. The driving force is the fabric, which is given its own life force and sense of energy. A direct relationship forms between the garment and dance which is not only aesthetic, but functional. In Trace the dancers are like blank canvases; they paint movement with the fabric, as they experience the space between one another. Most of the piece was developed by experimenting with the fabric's possibilities and limitations. Essentially, the fabric created its own dance vocabulary.

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Sydney Theatre at Walsh Bay
22 Hickson Road Walsh Bay

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