Performing at the interval: Perambulations of the maternal child in an Australian youth-based arts practice. Issue 2 (3rd July 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Trezise, Bryoni
• Is Part Of: Youth theatre journal. Volume 33:Issue 2(2019)
• Page Start: 119
• Page End: 128
• Publication Date: 2019-07-03
• Subjects: Children's theater -- Periodicals; Drama in education -- Periodicals; 792.022605
• DOI: 10.1080/08929092.2019.1688211
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0892-9092

Abstract

ABSTRACT: In this article I consider the performative moving sculpture titled 16 Girls (2015) produced by Australian-based organization St Martins Youth Art Center as a work that plays consciously and actively with the everyday social performativities of the girl-child-figure. It does so by using contemporary performance practices that engage techniques of Invisible Theatre to disrupt site-specific locations with augmented pedestrian choreographies. In this article, I suggest that the work forms choreographies that visually and physically punctuate relationships between urban environments and everyday social practices to invite new apprehensions of the "maternal child" – a figure who appears to own her own means of production and to thereby give birth to herself.