EXPLAIN NORMAL
““frenetic...amazingly energetic, Ruby Donohoe...blistering””
BY DANIELE CONSTANCE X AHA ENSEMBLE X PHLUXUS2 DANCE COLLECTIVE
Metro Arts (2019)
Supercell Festival of Contemporary Dance (2019)
There are normal ways to eat, walk, sit, speak and die.
There are also not normals, not normal ways for everything.
Not normal ways to love, to dance, to start a conversation, to cry. There are not normal ways to live.
As we all continually evolve our idea of normal, we ask what makes us part of a society and who is included? OK let’s say it – there is no such thing as normal.
Explain Normal unpacks the concept of “normal” as both survival mechanism and death making, as myth, as someone else’s truth, as a potent provocation for perspectives on society and difference, and how we value otherness.
Explain Normal is a new dance theatre work directed by participatory artist Daniele Constance. It is a new and exciting artistic collaboration between the Aha Ensemble who identify with disability and artists from Phluxus2 Dance Collective. Explain Normal explores how these artists define perceptions of normalcy, through the lens of their diverse experiences.
Daniele Constance – Director
Nerida Matthaei – Choreographer
Ruby Donohoe – Assistant Director & Performing Artist
Allycia Staples – Performing Artist
Megan Louise West – Performing Artist
Rebecca Dostal – Performing Artist
Mitchell Runcie – Performing Artist
Kayah Guenther – Performing Artist
Tara Heard – Performing Artist
Charles Ball – Performing Artist
Nadia Milford – Performing Artist
Joseph Burgess – Sound Design & AV Design
Keith Clarke – Lighting Design
Images by Jorge Serra.