Boxes (1985 - )

McMurdo, Don: Scene from Graeme Murphy's 'Boxes', Sydney Dance Company, c. 1985

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Chroeographed by Graeme Murphy for Sydney Dance Company, Boxes premiered on 5 November 1985. The cast was led by Kim Walker as Figure #1 Male, Janet Vernon as Figure #1 Female, and Paul Mercurio as Figure #2 Male. The work was danced to a commissioned score from Iva Davies and his associate, Robert Kretschmer. It had costumes by Anthony Jones, a set designed by Laurence Eastwood and it was lit by John Drummond Montgomery.

Program notes for the original production stated: 'BOXES reflects on a world where physical and emotional barriers are erected knowingly, and all too often unknowingly; a world where we strive to measure and analyse everything in our physical universe. It is a view through a window into an environment - a world of change'.

See also: Mercurio, Paul ; Murphy, Graeme ; Sydney Dance Company ; Vernon, Janet ; Walker, Kim

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