"Hooper's aerial straps routine is frantic, astonishingly quick and impossibly dexterous.
To watch it is destroying."
Rebekah Ellerby, A Younger Theatre
Extract of improvisation from initial development, March 2022
Be Subservient to My Ambition
Work in development
Exploring a pursuit of freedom through the ambition to ascend, this work is an intimate, live art project, merging circus and performance art to create a contemporary, durational straps installation for gallery performance contexts.
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.
Experimenting with a cyclical performance structure of 5 chapters (Constraint, Release, Resilience, Liberation, Transcendence) Be Subservient to My Ambition explores ambition as a source of power and solidarity, capable of demanding and achieving change. It is also a rumination on the perpetual challenges working against liberation, the fatigue of resilience and the painful progress towards freedom that can so quickly come undone.
Be Subservient to my Ambition is currently in development for a distilled and intimate audience experience in gallery or museum 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
Sound Design- Kelly Ryall
Producer- Tom Pritchard
Extract of improvisation from initial development, March 2022
Extract of improvisation from initial development, March 2022
Extract of improvisation from initial development, March 2022
This development is supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.
