THIS SIDE OF PARADISE

This Side Of Paradise was devised in collaboration with a group of young people, Cathi Sell, Gordon Black, Deborah May and Harvey Lancaster that Dudendance had been working with since 2003. Joined by collaborator Dora de Andrade from Brazil and lighting designer Charlotte Strong-Moran. Sound was created by

Fabianna Galante from Argentina.

Dudendance were invited to perform as part of Summerhall's Edinburgh Fringe programme. The piece was recreated for the former dissection room and lecture theatre.

The world of video games is overwhelmingly one of battlefields and violence. Military technology and futuristic fantasy worlds abound populated with marauding armies of sub-human or alien creatures bent on total destruction. In This Side of Paradise Dudendance wanted to explore how war fare and violence are used in entertainment, film video and gaming. Where do we draw the line between fantasy and reality?

This Side of Paradise was first created for the vast spaces of the Glue Factory in Glasgow. Dudendance made the piece on site creating a walk through environment peopled by mutant creatures who assembled and destroyed themselves with wads of stuffing. The performance was set into adjoining spaces allowing the audience to see several scenes at once.