modmove » The Dinner Party https://modmove.com Australian Entertainment and Popular Culture in Review Thu, 14 May 2026 18:10:53 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.4 The Dinner Party Theatre Review https://modmove.com/theatre/the-dinner-party-theatre-review/ https://modmove.com/theatre/the-dinner-party-theatre-review/#comments Mon, 13 May 2019 04:40:08 +0000 http://modmove.com/?p=8594 We’ve all been to dinner parties. When we were kids, we got to watch the adults do the strangest things, then as grownups we got to do the strangest things ourselves. With the Expressions Dance Company’s production of The Dinner Party, we get to experience the party as both, voyeur and participant.

A single spotlight illuminates a party guest as he stands atop a table and attempts to control the festivities. Bowed instruments deliver a toe tapping groove as the party gets underway. The collision of intents from the guests mirror the now avantgarde sounds being produced just off stage. There are politics both sexual and personal at play here.

 

 

Dance as an artistic medium reminds us that there is both grace and turmoil that can be enacted purely by body movement. The Dinner Party’s maelstrom of sound and human motion illustrate the ever changing sense of group dynamics like no other.

Cast: Jake McLarnon, Lizzie Vilmanis, Bernhard Knauer, Jag Popham, Isabella Hood, Josephine Weise
Choreographer: Natalie Weir with the EDC Dancers
Costume Designer: Gail Sorronda
Musical Director: Tania Frazer
Lighting Designer: Ben Hughes
Rehearsal Director: Andrea Briody
Music: Southern Cross Soloists

The Dinner Party is playing at the Cremorne Theatre, QPAC, Brisbane from 10 – 18 May, 2019
www.qpac.com.au

]]> https://modmove.com/theatre/the-dinner-party-theatre-review/feed/ 0 The Dinner Party is coming to QPAC this May! https://modmove.com/theatre/the-dinner-party-is-coming-to-qpac-this-may/ https://modmove.com/theatre/the-dinner-party-is-coming-to-qpac-this-may/#comments Mon, 29 Apr 2019 16:43:48 +0000 http://modmove.com/?p=8428 An elegant dinner party hosted by an influential young man for his manipulative guests is thrown into turmoil when power meets greed, ambition and jealousy. As the evening wears on The Dinner Party exposes society’s insatiable desire for control and status and the power play between the guests intensifies as the accusations start to fly.

Who really holds the power at this sophisticated table? And who will be in control by the time coffee is served?

Premiering to extraordinary reviews in Brisbane in 2015, The Dinner Party (former title The Host), is gripping contemporary dance theatre from Queensland’s award-winning Expressions Dance Company.

 

 

You will be struck by the sublime costumes by acclaimed Australian fashion designer Gail Sorronda, original music recordings from Queensland’s highly acclaimed Southern Cross Soloists and inspiring movement by internationally renowned choreographer, Natalie Weir, in this thrilling ride that exposes the not-so-beautiful in beautiful people.

The Dinner Party
10 – 18 May, 2019
Cremorne Theatre, QPAC, Brisbane
www.qpac.com.au

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