Petite Suite by Brand X is back and bougier than ever with our unmissable, immersive, mini-bar, micro-festival hosted by Ace Hotel Sydney. Don’t miss your invitation to check in and check out 7 unique performances in 7 dazzling suites as 7 artists subvert your reality of a hotel room through contemporary performance… but, choose your adventure wisely as your key won’t unlock every door!
PETITE SUITE HOST:
Annabel Lines
Annabel Lines has eaten razor blades with seminal French circus Archaos, toted green fire as a glamorously dead mermaid, swung a bunch of hula hoops to crowds of thousands, danced her arse off with notorious potty-mouthed queen of queer electro-pop Peaches – generally bitten off more than she can chew and made a gourmet meal out of it. From cemeteries and sick beds to vast arenas and dreamy big tops, Annabel has sprinkled her version of hilarious beauty and uncanny vision across the seas. Now a semi-recluse and as weird and wonderful as ever, she returns to the corridors of Ace Hotel.
ACT I: THE WILL.
Artists: Vashti Hughes & Ross Johnston.
Project Blurb: Sydney prices! Who can even afford a glass of wine? Let alone a mortgage. Time to check in with that distant elderly relative and remind them you exist. What “WILL” your future hold?
ACT II: QUIET REVOLUTIONS
Artists: Lucy Doherty & Hana Truban.
Project Blurb: Step back in time to the 1970s queer liberation movement with ‘Quiet Revolutions’, an intimate dance performance that invites you into the once hidden world of a lesbian couple.
ACT III: SHAMGODDS: DOWNTIME
Artists: Malcolm Whittaker, Nitin vengurlekar & Matt Prest.
Project Blurb: Shamgodds will perform seven-minutes of downtime funk, drawing once again on sports rituals, quotidian choreographic riffs, and a consideration of the ways in which our rest periods are continually commodified. In the overdetermined rest-space of a hotel room, the Shamgodds inhabit and move between images of repose, restlessness, fever dream, perversion and tedium.
ACT IV: THE INTERRUPTION.
Artists: Caroline Mooney, Dorothea Csutkai, Robyn Simpson
Project Blurb: What happens in your hotel room when you’re not there? Indulge your curiosities as Suspended Reality Dance Theatre reveals some secrets…
ACT V: TWO BODIES ONE MIND.
Artists: Keila Terencio de Paula, Renata Commisso & Rudolf Hendrikx
Project Blurb: “I wrote about it the next morning after that dream, and the morning after that, and each day after each dream… Am I actually awake? If it is not real, please wake me up, or stop manipulating me, let me find my body again”.
ACT VI: THE WETNESS.
Artist: Rose Kingdom-Barron.
Project Blurb: The wetness in you sees the wetness in me. Together we’ll tap into water, unblock ourselves and flow more freely within and to other bodies of water. Bring your clam-squad, it’s time to get wet.
ACT VII: ATTENTION IS ALL YOU NEED.
Artist: hosting
Project Blurb: An intimate AI encounter that challenges perceptions of contemporary machine learning. A familiar computer interface, an unfamiliar procedure. Isn’t it nice to have a computer that can talk to you…
Explore the full cast lineup for PETITE SUITE 2024
This project is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW.
