Panther

Panther

PANTHER is an ongoing performance collaboration between Madeleine Hodge and Sarah Rodigari.

Panther create work across documentary, performance, improvisation, video and site based intervention. Our collaboration is compact, adaptable and open, extending across disciplines to create live art events specific to each space, every encounter. Through our work we are seeking to create a space for cultural enquiry, audience activation and social critique. We produce work that is rigorous, engaging and often funny, whilst always testing new possibilities for live performance.

In 2008 Panther will create new works for video and performance spaces. We will be in residency through A Month in the Country in Albury to create Elephant Island and we will work with Tape Project Artists to create a new work for video and performance We don’t want to shop anymore.
In November 2008, Panther will present work at this is the time - a symposium presented by PICA and Artrage as part of PVI’s ten-year anniversary celebrations.

Panther have presented work in festivals and venues throughout Europe and Asia, including Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, UK (2005), ANTI Festival of Contemporary Art, Finland (2007), PACT Zollverein, Germany (2007), Fresh Festival, England (2007) and the Singapore Fringe Festival (2008)

Panther have also developed work in Australia, with the support of the Performance Space, Sydney and Arts House in Melbourne.

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Anti Playground

The playground is a map onto which histories are layered; the fort becomes a castle, a battleship, or the belly of a whale. The space beneath the slide is the bottom of a well, a crime scene, a forest and a troll’s hideout.

Panther will take small groups of 8 people on tours of the playground; playfully exploring the relationship of narrative to a space. In this performance we will tell the audience a multitude of stories and through a series of instructions these micro narratives attach them selves to each of the locations we visit.

The tales we tell are both true and fictitious involving historical facts and projections into the future. While being a series of fragments, the stories continually redefine the site, creating a lived experience for each audience member. We are all woven into it, inhabiting both the imagined space and the real space, implicated, as the stories build themselves around us. These stories push the boundaries of possibility in the site, shifting perspectives and creating an intimacy between the audience and the performers.

Check back here for updates on where to find Anti Playground during Next Wave 2008.

Commissioned by and first produced for: ANTI Festival 2007, Kuopio, Finland.

Stranger of the Month is a collaborative art project produced and deployed with the aid of a Kickstart Development Grant for Next Wave Festival 2008. Next Wave Associate Producer: Tai Snaith.