Project Blah Blah

Choreographers & Performers: Deanne Butterworth & Jo Lloyd

Sound Design: duckjuggler

Premiered: January 2011

Length: 24 minutes

Project Blah Blah focuses on the communication between two people in one room for an extended period of time, exploring behavioural patterns, underlying tension and the effort to sustain a relationship through various ways of communicating.

This duet is a continuation of Jo and Deanne’s interest in the physical behaviour between two people.

Exploring what is kept hidden from one another and what happens when certain behaviour is revealed to one another, exposing ones suppressed desires and instincts through intricate choreography and actions that are saturated with suspicion and meaning.

The work examines various notions of control, dealing with the level of control one has over a particular situation or another person.  Project Blah Blah draws the audiences' attention to what is being witnessed and stirs a feeling of absence, encouraging a sense of questioning of what is occurring in the room, the relationship between the two dancers,  what might have already occurred or is about to occur. Project Blah Blah follows the paradoxical line of enquiry that everything can be planned yet nothing is known.

This duet was created collaboratively by Jo Lloyd and Deanne Butterworth in January and February 2009. Project Blah Blah was supported by the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria.

Shown at Napier Street Theatre, February 2009

Performed at the Hong Kong Fringe Theatre January 2011 and supported by the the Hong Kong Dance Alliance, Strut, Dancehouse & Global Japan Network.

photo credit: Hay Lee