SWEAT

"BRANCH NEBULA'S SWEAT WITTILY AND FORCEFULLY DISORIENTS OUR SENSE OF WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AN AUDIENCE."
Keith Gallasch, RealTime

"THE SMILING CEREMONIAL QUALITY OF THE REBELLION IS SO DISARMING AND SO CLEVERLY WORKED IN WITH OUR OWN UNDERSTANDINGS OF THEATRE ETIQUETTE THAT THE AUDIENCE VICTIMS ARE LEFT LAUGHING RATHER THAN HUMILIATED."
Carl Nilsson-Polias, RealTime

performers | devisers Marnie Palomares | Ali Kadhim | Erwin Fenis | Ahilan Ratnamohan | Claudia Escobar

co-creator | director
Lee Wilson

co-creator | designer
Mirabelle Wouters

composer | live sound
Hirofumi Uchino

dramaturg
John Baylis

production | stage manager
Abbie Trott

produced by
Viv Rosman for

with support of

Sweat has been developed with the support of the Australia Council, the
Australian Government's arts funding and advisory body, the NSW Government through Arts NSW, Besen Family Foundation and Performance
Space and Arts House through the TransLab Intercultural Theatre
Initiative. Sweat premiered at Performance space on 21 October 2010.

Branch Nebula is supported by Managing and Producing Services (MAPS) NSW, a joint initiative supported by the Australia Council and Arts NSW. MAPS NSW is managed by Performing Lines.

Sweat is Branch Nebula's new dance theatre production, a darkly humorous performance which takes its audience into the world of those who do the dirty work.

Combining popular movement forms to create a unique audience experience, dance, parkour, Bboying, acrobatics, martial arts and football merge in a choreographic score that shifts through and around the audience. Performing live, Japanese "Noisician" Hirofumi Uchino drives the action with a taut and dynamic electronic noise-scape.

Sweat explores the power dynamics between those who serve and those who are served. It focuses on workers within the service industry and the intimate role they play in our lives whilst remaining totally anonymous, raising questions of power, class and race within our contemporary society.

For the last decade Branch Nebula have been developing distinctive, hybrid movement-based performance combining dance, theatre, acrobatics, music and design to create powerful and visceral experiences for audiences. Sweat is Branch Nebula's latest major ensemble work after the critical acclaim and success of their Helpmann nominated Paradise City.

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