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In a flash

Saturday 10 February 2018

Photo by Lorna Sim

Australian Dance Party returns to the National Portrait Gallery to present a new short work in response to Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits.

In a flash captures the glamour, adventure, iconography and nostalgia of life on the screen. Accompanying the dance is live photography and image manipulation exposing the ebb and flow between fiction and reality, role and actor, raw and manipulated.

Dance Artists: Adam Deusien, Alana Stenning, Alison Plevey, Gabriela Green and Leeke Griffin.
Live photography: Lorna Sim
Live Graphics: Anna Trundle

Commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery and supported by QL2 Dance.

Related information

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Starstruck

Australian Movie Portraits

Previous exhibition, 2017

Striking, beautiful portraiture comes out of the most thoroughly documented creative process there is – filmmaking. In a ground-breaking collaboration the National Portrait Gallery and National Film and Sound Archive invite you into this captivating realm between real and fictional worlds.