DULL BOY
DULL BOY
Choreographer / Alisdair Macindoe in collaboration with the dancers of ADC
Composer / Alisdair Macindoe
Lighting Designer / Ben Hughes
Set & Costume Design / Chloe Greaves & Alisdair Macindoe
COMPANY ARTISTS & performers
Tyrel Dulvarie
Harrison Elliott
Lilly King
Taiga Kita-Leong
Lily Potger
Georgia Van Gils
Photos by David Kelly.
“The work begins slowly, movement underpinned by a mesmerising soundscape (also by Macindoe), building together in intensity and speed, showing Macindoe’s ability to effectively fuse music with dance. Evoking the industrialisation of interaction, the movement is often gestural – mime-like patting, pulling, and tossing sometimes performed almost in unison, building in urgency, but overall remaining grounded.”
– DENISE RICHARDSON https://www.danceaustralia.com.au/reviews/review-adc-s-three
program note
In 2009 after receiving an invitation to join Facebook and reading the entire terms and conditions of the membership, I chose to boycott all social media in perpetuity. At the time the issues that would come from creating a social structure this way were apparent to me, and I found it confounding and confusing that the whole thing took off.
Dull Boy is an intuitive response to what feels like experiencing an increasingly force-fed experience of capitalism, marketing, professionalisation, commercialisation, and commodification of social interaction.
As we move closer and closer to a cultural theology that centres the self, there is an increasing confabulation of our working and personal identities. This in and of itself is not a bad revolution but coupled with large monolithic financial and social power structures, we are leaving ourselves vulnerable to manipulation, dissonance, and increased imbalance.
There is a swelling of emotions that begins to emerge when I meditate on what I feel the world expects me to do in terms of social media and branding myself, and as a creative, there is no relief to that pressure. I have maintained my boycott and am grateful for the indelible mark left by simply clicking the 'I do not accept' button. I hope by reading this that you may feel a little less beholden to these mechanisms.
I also hope there is something inside you that connects to and reflects on these ideas as you experience Dull Boy.
