DEEP SOULFUL SWEATS
The beat drives, bass reverberates and bodies hum with energy – a dancefloor, a ritual, an unrelenting hybrid guaranteed to get your heart racing. Deep Soulful Sweats stirs up old ghosts, and unleashes the power and knowledge of sweat, movement and the collective body – creating ecstatic, inclusive, and unrehearsed shared performances with no spectators. Each participant is a vital contributor, stepping together towards the exhilaration of dissolving inhibitions as the collective absorbs the individual.
Deep Soulful Sweats is an open invitation for anyone and everyone to come together. Guided by the zodiac, participants are led through choreography, chanting, absurdity, magic and fantasy – connecting us in an immersive ritual. Part rave, part workshop, all release.
Festival of Dangerous Ideas proudly presents the Sydney premiere of Deep Soulful Sweats.
Image credit: Damien Laing
Sarah Aiken and Rebecca Jensen
Rebecca Jensen and Sarah Aiken create experimental choreography and performance in theatres, galleries, community, film, music and site responsive contexts. Their work has been described as formally reckless, slipping between codified forms and unbridled invention, satirical, sincere, absurd and unapologetic – a freeform maximalist style with no rules. Works include cult classic participatory zodiac dance Deep Soulful Sweats, durational line dance meets hardstyle Crystal Touch, and theatre-based works What Am I Supposed To Do? (Arts Centre Melbourne 2019, Winner Melbourne Festival Discovery Award), Underworld (Darebin Arts 2017) and Overworld (Next Wave 2013, Dance Massive 2014).
Sarah Aiken image credit: Aaron Ashley
We acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation - the custodians of the country on which we meet - and acknowledge their Elders, past and present.
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