DanceArts United is a performing arts academy whose primary purpose is the development of high quality, original and entertaining performance pieces. Our aim is to create unique and interesting performers through drawing upon and developing the individual characteristics and strengths of our students. We foster an artistic environment in which our students feel safe, confident and artistically challenged.

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THE EARTH, THE SEA & THE MOON

 
PREMIERE PERFORMANCE
DATES:
August 12 & 13, 2011
TIME:
8pm
WHERE:
Gasworks Theatre, Gasworks Arts Park, Albert Park

 

Imagine being in a bizarre love triangle – you, the girl of your dreams and your alter ego. And your alter ego is better than you are.

The Earth, the Sea and the Moon is a story about a neurotic and hermitic visual artist (Moon) who lives above a cafe.  Everyday he sits in his apartment and watches the girl of his dreams who works in the cafe beneath him. He is deeply in love with her, even though they have never spoken, nor even met.  Everyday is the same, Moon lost in his imagination, occupied with his unrequited love, and daydreaming of one day building the confidence to approach the object of his affection.

But Moon has become his own worst enemy, creating the ultimate alter ego and rival for Earth’s affection, who unremitting, like the sea, foils his every attempt at love.

Through one imaginative set-piece after another, each more and more outlandish than the last, no matter how beautiful and brilliantly constructed Moon’s fantasies become, he just can’t get the better of his own defeatism, taking him further and further into the dark recesses of his neurosis.