‘Like watching your neighbours through a window…’

Singing and Dancing is Heavily Encouraged is an experiment in authentic human experience and entertainment. Watch or join in as a group of performers sing and dance like no one is watching to a playlist of upbeat and kitschy songs aimed to unearth the ecstatic, amusing and sometimes ridiculous nature of human vulnerability and enjoyment.

Created by: Ebony Muller

Performed by: Chelsea Byrne, Caitlin Dear, Angela Dexter, Juliana De Quilettes, Courtney Dunn and Oskar Revesz

Additional rehearsal performance provided by: Michael Simpson

Photography: Harsha Chandir

Performed as part of InterAct! Transdisciplinary Interrogations, academic conference at Deakin Downtown, December, 2019.

Supported by Deakin University Faculty of Arts and Education.

Performed on the lands of the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation.

Inspired by Candice Breitz’s Portrait series, No Lights No Lycra and silent discos, Singing and Dancing is Heavily Encouraged asks the question: What if authentic, enjoying and immersed singing and dancing bodies are enacted live in the space as performance?

‘[each performer has] the same language, but they speak in different dialects’

Quotes from audience member, Nofel Nofiadri.