Explicit Contents

2022

Dance

Artist/s:

Director and Choreographer Rhiannon Newton
Performer Ivey Wawn
Performer David Huggins
Music and Sound design Peter Lenaerts
Dramaturg Lizzie Thomson 
Lighting Designer Karen Norris
Costume Designer Agnes Choi
Outside Eye Nikki Heywood and Victoria Hunt
Producer Anthea Doropoulos
Assistant Producer Nikoletta Minns

The edge of the body has disappeared; the environment has seeped inside and come to live amongst body parts; the nervous system feels its way far beyond the skin.  

Commissioned by Campbelltown Arts Centre, 'Explicit Contents' is a new dance work from acclaimed Sydney-based choreographer, Rhiannon Newton. Describing visceral transactions between humans and their worlds, the work tells hyper-real stories about the contents of two bodies as they are made and remade by the forces of their surroundings. Burning and cooling, hungering and satiating, incorporating and expelling, the body becomes an explicit site of action and exchange. 

Featuring Sydney-based dancers, Ivey Wawn and David Huggins, and sound design by Peter Lenaerts (Brussels/Sydney), 'Explicit Contents' presents an evocative journey through the body’s entanglement with the environment. Reimagining bodies as watery vessels, techno-chemical conglomerates and thermo-dynamic machines, this new work asks not just what impacts are humans having on their environment, but what do these impacts feel like?