A different kind of Gold Coast marathon will take place this weekend, when a couple will dance for 24 hours as part of the Bleach arts festival.
Dance marathons were a craze across the US during the Depression, when couples stayed on their feet for days in exchange for free food and the promise of cash prizes.
The free 24-hour dance piece, Today I Feel A Soft Breeze, will begin at 5pm this Saturday on the lake behind HOTA.When Lizzie Thompson and Ryuichi Fujimura perform a 24-hour dance piece on a temporary stage erected on Evandale Lake in Surfers Paradise, it will be for a more edifying purpose – art. “It’s a big toll on your body to keep dancing for 24 hours,” said Bleach festival’s artistic director, Rosie Dennis. “It’s not for the faint-hearted performer.”“I’ve wanted to do a durational dance work almost since I arrived on the Gold Coast,” she said. “And not just durational, but overnight.”“The artists themselves are going to undergo an experience. It’s not manufactured, their tiredness. This is going to be for real,” she said.
“The Gold Coast is a sea city. It’s 70 kilometres long, and you’re never more than five minutes from a body of water,” she said.A floating stage on the Nerang River in the Broadbeach Cultural Precinct will host a free performance on Friday night titledThe same stage will host a lively brass band,Slow Art – Sounds of the Valley
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