Music, Dance, Costume and Story
A compelling and emotive story, an invitation to let the scales fall from your eyes, an altered reality of unique costume, visceral dance, visual poetry, and powerful music. We offer you a moment to consider your place in the world through a process of revelation, rebellion and reinvention. The Scales Of The World is an allegorical story following the life of a tree and a man as they are both cut down. The story is presented in several short sections, each of which takes both branch and man on a transformative journey from riverbank through to a flooded world. Each section is represented through a mythical, reptilian being and invites the audience to travel on a journey of reinvention and transcendence.
Breezy Lee as the Moura
The Scales of the World is part prose, part poetry and is presented in a heightened and performative style. It takes the audience through a series of four distinctive environments in which both landscape and reality become transfigured: riverbank, hot-air balloon, underground chamber and flooded world. The show is designed for stage and can be shown in-the-round. It also has the potential to take the audience on a physical journey through a particular site or building as a promenade performance. It is a thought provoking work offering a sense of enigma and redemption.
Alex Rigg narrates this alegorical tale.
Music for the project was written by Richard Luke with songs by Breezy Lee, words from Alex Rigg and string arrangements by Greg Lawson.
Photographs by Brian Hartley and Film by Article19 Films.
Dancers - Jen Farmer; Suzi Cunningham; Aaron Jeffrey; Malcolm Sutherland; Camille Marmillé; Rose McCormack; Dylan Read; KJ Clarke-Davis.
Musicians - Fiona Stephen; Greg Lawson; Liz Wyly; Stephanie Irvine; Juliette Lemoine; Anders Rigg; Oliver Rigg; Richard Luke.
Fabric print - Kim Martin; Stage Manager - Jo Hodges; Wardrobe - Fiona Stephen & Danna Sim
Lighting - Zoe Williams.