Fringe Highlights
55 mins with no intermission
Fringe Highlight ● Asian Premiere
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55 mins with no intermission
Fringe Highlight ● Asian Premiere
*Concessions for students, NSFs, senior citizens and PWD card holders
If there’s not dancing at the revolution, I’m not coming is a rich contemporary performance collage of film scripts, pop songs, advertisements, elaborate costumes and dance—all stretched, teased, shattered and reassembled to challenge the treatment of women’s bodies as spectacle in popular culture.
It uncovers the collective fantasies underneath these bodies, unapologetically intervenes, and explodes them into feminist confetti.
This is a party.
This is a poem.
This is a tiny call to arms.
Presented in collaboration with Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay and with support from Creative NZ.
If there’s not dancing at the revolution, I’m not coming is an overtly feminist work investigating the ways in which female bodies are treated in media and popular culture. The work is inspired by feminist film theory, particularly the work of Laura Mulvey who famously coined the term the “male gaze”. The work draws links between representation and violence, how representation can be an act of violence to women’s bodies and the ways in which our looking is a political act.
It directly connects to the theme of Let’s Walk by dealing explicitly with feminist politics of beauty, female bodies, violence, representations and objectification.
Click here to find the route to Esplanade.
If there’s not dancing at the revolution, I’m not coming is a rich contemporary performance collage of film scripts, pop songs, advertisements, elaborate costumes and dance—all stretched, teased, shattered and reassembled to challenge the treatment of women’s bodies as spectacle in popular culture.
It uncovers the collective fantasies underneath these bodies, unapologetically intervenes, and explodes them into feminist confetti.
This is a party.
This is a poem.
This is a tiny call to arms.
Presented in collaboration with Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay and with support from Creative NZ.
RELATION TO THEME
If there’s not dancing at the revolution, I’m not coming is an overtly feminist work investigating the ways in which female bodies are treated in media and popular culture. The work is inspired by feminist film theory, particularly the work of Laura Mulvey who famously coined the term the “male gaze”. The work draws links between representation and violence, how representation can be an act of violence to women’s bodies and the ways in which our looking is a political act.
It directly connects to the theme of Let’s Walk by dealing explicitly with feminist politics of beauty, female bodies, violence, representations and objectification.
“Postmodern performance art meets power pop politics–powerfully delivered. I loved it with a vengeance. I want to join her revolution.” —Dorothy Max Prior, Total Theatre
“Julia Croft's exposé of the Hollywood male gaze is bonkers and inspired” —Lucy Ribchester, The List
“One of the best pieces of theatre I have ever witnessed.... This is my call to arms.... for people in Auckland (for now) to witness this remarkable piece of theatre, and to challenge both themselves and others with the chords it strikes within them.” —Matt Baker, Theatrescenes.co.nz
Getting Here
Click here to find the route to Esplanade.