Two performers.
Two viewers.
Love in two parts.
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Press and audience quotes
- ‘one of those undemocratic pleasures worth keeping small’ – Real Time (2009)
- ‘Suddenly, none of the conventions that usually govern the audience-performer relationship exist: there is no anonymity and nowhere to hide’ – The Age (2009)
- ‘Having eluded any presuppositions about duration, proximity or mode of engagement, Inert disorients us from ready-made audience reactions. Applause does not appear a plausible response. There is not enough distance between us to accommodate such an outburst.’ – Real Time (2009)
- 'challenging, beautiful and thought provoking' - Cobie Orger
- ‘What happens to that authority, that entitled sense of selfhood, when the artwork looks back, and it can't be looking at anyone except you?’ – Theatre Notes (2009)
- ‘it reminded me of how sharp love can be, sharp and painful, and confusing’ – Katerina Kokkinos-Kennedy
- 'an intimate, intricately made work' - The Australian (2006)
- 'the most radical presentation came from independent choreographer Simon Ellis' - Dance International (2006)
- 'a thought-provoking micro-performance that will tune you in to the complexities and uncertainties of intimacy' - The Age (2006)
- 'a sad poem about love and loss and distance and the impossibility of it all' - Bagryana Popov
- 'ineffably vulnerable' - The Australian (2006)
- 'The intimacy of the piece was quite remarkable ... At the end I felt I had passed through something, and a strong sense that something had been done to me' - Jason Maling
- 'poetic, intimate, personal, beautiful ... physically affecting' - Shaun McLeod