PUFFER - FLING Physical Theatre - Gather 2023

PUFFER
Glorious Metallic Joy
Sometimes all you need is a great beat and a great jacket.
Choreography - Gabrielle Rose in collaboration with the FLING Company
Performers - Jarrah Cattlin, Harry Haggar, Perdita Brydon, Amalia-Grace Thompson, Isha Constable, Jasper Kean, Otis Lauder and Darby Rosenbaum.
Music Credit - Evening Side - Oneohtrix Point Never Edit, Four Set and Oneohtrix Point Never
Boyfriend (Repeat), Confidence Man
Tagged as "Glorious Metallic Joy", FLING presented Gabrielle Rose and dancers’ energetic, entertaining Puffer. This company, based in Bega, NSW, featured eight dancers clad in three-quarter-length hooded puffer jackets lit by stark tangential lighting, bouncing off the metallic silver fabric and shadowing hooded faces. The effect was of an anonymous puffer-puppetry, emphasised by strong unison. Then, smashing the animated feel, the dancers shucked the jackets and revealed themselves in an exuberant finale. -Anthony Plevey, Dance Australia