Break free from the codes of expected behaviour and let your naughty out!
A young man sits at a table offering compliments to the audience. A series of affirmations descends into a shouting contest. A woman tears pages from a book, piling up the scrunched pieces of paper. A solitary voice pierces the darkness, chaos erupts, and the binding breaks.
Showing the pleasure and comic beauty of trying to be ourselves when the rules don’t quite fit the way we want to be. Exploring what it feels like to be attempting to fit into a mold that is narrow, outdated, and doesn’t come close to being able to handle the depth of your potential.
Sight Unseen is a playful theatre work, performed and filmed in the PICA Performance Space, that celebrates breaking free of the codes of expected behaviour and the necessity of letting your naughty out. A rabble of eight young performers opens up to the audience and reminds us all that our quirks and difference are what makes us interesting.
Presented by DADAA in association with PICA and Propel Youth Arts WA as part of KickstART Festival
Details
When: Video released on Saturday 16 April at 2pm
Where: YouTube and the KickstART website
About the DADAA Youth Performance Group
DADAA's Youth Performance group is a mixed bunch of young people who meet weekly to come together to create contemporary performance. Now in its third year, the group is made up of people from different backgrounds and different abilities, celebrating all that makes us unique, different, and interesting.
About PICA
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) is one of Australia’s leading centres for the development and presentation of contemporary art. Housed in a large and striking heritage building in the heart of Perth, Western Australia, PICA is the city’s focal point for those wishing to experience the best of Australian and international visual, performing and cross-disciplinary art. PICA is both a producing and presenting institution that runs a year-round program of changing exhibitions, seasons in contemporary dance, theatre and music, live art events and a range of interdisciplinary projects.
For artists, audiences and other communities it serves, PICA is a source of inspiration, a resource, a meeting and gathering place, a provocateur and most importantly a partner in the realisation of big and new ideas.
About the Youth Week WA KickstART Festival
Presented by Propel Youth Arts WA, the KickstART Festival has been the flagship event of Youth Week WA for 12 years running. KickstART offers over 60 free events - including workshops, talks, performances, mentorships, exhibitions, markets, and other special events - between 8 - 16 April, for young people aged 12-26.
Due to growing concerns about COVID-19 and the anticipated continued spread of Omicron across our communities in Boorloo (Perth) and WA, the Propel team has decided to pivot towards digital and hybrid formats for the delivery of the KickstART Festival this April.
The Youth Week WA KickstART Festival 2022 is presented by Propel Youth Arts WA and is funded by the Government of Western Australia through the Department of Communities and the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries. KickstART is also supported by Lotterywest, the City of Perth, the City of Stirling, the City of Fremantle, and the City of Vincent.