Event End Date: June 15, 2024 - 06:00 PM
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Commissioned for Vivid LIVE 2024 by Destination NSW and the Sydney Opera House.
As we are taken into the murky realm of Narcissus, denim, hessian, and a sewn and bundled patchwork of leftover material all become our reality. Here, we are left to ponder what it means to really see oneself as we navigate the textural folds of the narrative.
Witness the Sydney Opera House’s renowned sails being covered in large sections of Julia Gutman’s textured artwork for Lighting of the Sails: Retell and reimagine the fable of Narcissus by Roman poet Ovid.
This is not just a reimagining of an old tale, but also a clash between antiquated methods and cutting-edge technology. Donated fabrics have been turned into an animated, timely epic by Julia and Pleasant Company through the digitization of centuries-old fabric production skills. Our protagonist appears to us in a fantasia of materials.
A girl with a face sewed from an old hessian bag, hair created from her mother’s scarf, and a striped t-shirt. She finds herself pulled into a metaphorical pool by her own reflection.
She is thrust into the unknown and has to make her way through perilous denim rivers and stony satin subsoils.
Echo uses dance, music, and puppetry to portray a tale of courage, wonder, and vulnerability. It unites the dark and the light, the imagined and the actual, the public and the private. Echo is a reminder to examine ourselves and confront our shadows. You’ll be thinking about its beauty and weirdness long after the lights go off and the fabric has fallen away.
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