Every 4 minutes

IN BRIEF

Every 4 Minutes uses the language of contemporary dance, acrobatics and dance theatre to examine states of social and bodily paranoia. HeadFeedHands collaborates with the australian choreographers Gavin Webber and Kate Harman.

THE PRODUCTION

“Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.” (David Lynch)

Imagine you take a passport photo and instead of your face what emerges is an inside-out picture of your innermost self, vulnerable and exposed. Just as you realise the person on the bench next to you is the love of your life, he runs from you in panic. You murder a series of people simply so that they will rise from their pools of blood, as if it were nothing. Reality shifts and fuses imperceptibly with visions of your most intimate fears, and now you can’t find the exit in time, and the man in the tie who till now had seemed harmless has infected you with a deadly virus. At the same time a friendly security announcement is played over the loudspeaker for you.

“The work is an exploration of social paranoia, particularly a paranoia of the body.” (Gavin Webber & Kate Harman)