Client: Stompin Youth Dance Company
Budget: $5000
Year: 2006 (Semester 2)
Staff: Ian Clayton, Louise Wallis and Robin Green
The brief required the design and construction of a contemporary dance set within a warehouse setting that mimicked the rooms of a house. The set had to be lightweight in its construction to allow for multiple performances in different locations and pack-up within two shipping containers.
Externally, the set was plain and non-descript hiding the contents within its cardboard walls (2400 x 2400 x 300mm). Inside the set, there was a sequence of rooms (lounge room, dining room, kitchen, bathroom and the bedroom), which the audience was guided through. Each room contained a different dance performance that interpreted the activities and mood of the room, which the students designed. The design of the wall panels was central to the success of this set, as it allowed walls to be located at different angles (45, 90 and 180 degrees) and to house sound, lighting and comply with fire safety requirements. Each wall panel was finished with a 6mm mdf vertical end “cap/connector”. These were cut out using the CNC router and allowed the joints to be pressed together using “Velcro”.
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Newspaper articles published in the Examiner, and a Melbourne paper.
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