Join dancers Isabella Hood and Jag Popham for an exploration of Natalya Hughes’s exhibition The Interior. In their twenty-minute performance, they will weave their ways through The Interior exploring the relationship between analyst and patient.
The Interior invites audiences into an exaggerated consultation room playfully furnished for psychoanalysis. Audiences are invited to recline and be enveloped, soothed, and held by the furniture’s womanly forms while taking turns playing analyst and patient. Throughout this bodily encounter, The Interior hopes to create a space where women can be reimagined on different terms in the ‘post-MeToo’ world.
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Isabella Hood is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher. She is a company dancer with Australasian Dance Collective. She has toured nationally and internationally with the company and collaborated with CCDC and Beijing Dance/LDTX in 2018 and 2019. Based in Meanjin/Brisbane, she has had local residencies at the Judith Wright Centre, Mad Dance House, and Studio1. She is currently a guest choreographer for RBCorp Instruction’s triple-bill season of Shadow Works.
Jag Popham is from Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland. He began with ballet at SABA Young Ballet before adding other movement modalities, including contemporary dance, yoga, running, and martial arts. He is also exploring breathwork, Zenthai Shiatsu, and holistic coaching. He trained at New Zealand School of Dance, majoring in contemporary, and graduating in 2015. In 2019 and 2020, he worked with Lloyd Newson on a remount of Enter Achilles, co-produced by Rambert and Sadlers Wells.
Natalya Hughes 'The Interior' 2022. Photo: Joe Ruckli.
