A Tale of Woe
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Like two cicadas advancing, springing instep with each other, Tra Mi Dinh and Rachel Coulson manifest from the shadows of the deep stage of the new Union Theatre. “Seven dances for two people,” the first of three works presented as part of Lucy Guerin Inc’s “Pieces,” in a new collaboration with University of Melbourne Arts and Culture (UMAC), summons a world beyond as the framework of the theatre falls away, or so it feels from my vantage in the stalls on opening night. Lightly, as if winged, in Dinh’s “Seven dances for two people,” there may be two, but it seems a familiar buzzing chorus at the end of a hot day. A loud, buzzing chorus of cicadas to signal a united front to predators; an orchestral deterrent clicking, perhaps there is more.
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