"Hooper's aerial straps routine is frantic, astonishingly quick and impossibly dexterous.
To watch it is destroying."
Rebekah Ellerby, A Younger Theatre
Photo: Jessica Connell
Photo: Jessica Connell
Photo: Jessica Connell
Photo: Jessica Connell
Photographs by Jessica Connell
Be Subservient to My Ambition
Work in development
Be Subservient To My Ambition is a pursuit of power, explored through a woman’s ambition to ascend.
Designed for gallery and liminal space, this experimental, live art project intersects circus and sound composition to create a long-form straps performance .
A radical act of endurance navigating a woman’s quest for empowerment, freedom and escape - power becomes a perpetual negotiation. From the moment of suspension the weightless yet distorted body, the straps as both liberator and restrainer and verticality’s endless promises, are held in a fluctuating dialogue of the human desire to ascend.
Be Subservient to My Ambition proffers the body to complex binds, suspended positions and disfigured torsions in a resilient application of effort and endurance, it’s placement in gallery spaces encourages audiences to examine and approach the artist in action- offering a rare proximity to circus and a powerful perception of the tangible efforts of the body.
Currently in development for a distilled and intimate audience experience in gallery or liminal space contexts with potential of adaptation for theatre or public space.
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Currently in development.
CREATIVE TEAM
Lead Artist- Bridie Hooper
Directorial Eye- Susie Dee
Composer- Kelly Ryall
Producer- Tom Pritchard
Be Subservient to My Ambition is supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body. We are grateful to have received additional support from Women's Circus, the National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA) and Circus Oz.
