Furioso (1993 - )

Lansac, Regis: Grayson Millwood and Mia Mason in 'Furioso', Meryl Tankard Australian Dance Theatre , 1995

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Furioso premiered on 8 July 1993 at the Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre. It was choreographed by Meryl Tankard for Meryl Tankard Australian Dance Theatre. The original cast was Prue Lang, Mia Mason, Rachel Roberts, Tuula Roppola, Michelle Ryan, Vincent Crowley, Grayson Millwood, Shaun Parker, Gavin Webber and Steev Zane. It was danced to music by Arvo Part, Elliot Sharp and Henryk Gorecki, and had designs by Regis Lansac.

Furioso was choreographed shortly after Tankard became director of Australian Dance Theatre, which occurred at the beginning of 1993. With its aerial choreography in which the dancers were attached to ropes and harnesses and were airborne for large sections of the piece, Furioso reflected Tankard's interest in the new space available to her in Adelaide after the small, confined area in which she had worked as director of the Meryl Tankard Company in Canberra.

Furioso was toured nationally and internationally between 1993 and 1999.

See also: Lansac, Regis ; Meryl Tankard Australian Dance Theatre ; Meryl Tankard Company ; Roppola, Tuula ; Tankard, Meryl

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