Tarantismo
Lauren Brincat
Saturday 11 – Sunday 12 April, 2026, 11:30am - 12:15pm and 1:30pm - 2:15pm
White Bay Power Station - Boiler House
Tarantismo is a site responsive procession that weaves sound, movement, and textile through White Bay Power Station. Inspired by folk ritual and industrial memory, it transforms architecture into a living score, animated by choreography, live music, and falling fabric. A collective gesture of resistance, remembrance, and spatial transformation unfolds.
Commissioned by Inner West Council
Credits:
Artist: Lauren Brincat
Curator: Zoe Theodore
Choreographer: Chloe Leong
Dancers: Mitchell Christie, Jasmin Lancaster, Chloe Leong, Siobhan Lynch and Angus Onley
Musicians: Chloe Chung, Niki Johnson
Studio fabricator: Lisa Dwyer
Clothing partner: Kowtow
No bookings required for this show
Lauren Brincat (Western Sydney, Australia 1980) working with performance, video, installation and sculpture to explore movement, music, and rhythm. She often creates site responsive work that probes historical ruptures and failures of language, integrating local communities while exploring non-verbal modes of expression through the use of sound sculptures and performance instruments. In Brincat’s videos, she often performs in relative solitude. In such works, she pushes her physical and cognitive limits, following rule-based actions. Her ‘walking pieces’ occur in vastly different contexts, from empty fields, to busy urban sites, and the ocean. Other video works take the form of documented and often repetitive actions. Collaboration is an important part of Brincat’s practice; featuring percussionists, architects, scientists, choreographers, equestrian riders and indigenous horse whisperers. Her use of fabric is intended to symbolize social cohesion, akin to a metaphorical social fabric, she experiments with different ways it interacts with body, space, and gender.
Accessibility
This is a roaming performance involving moving dancers and live musicians (flute and percussion). Sound levels will change as the performance moves through the space. The final section in the Boiler House, includes an opt in participatory moment with loud, bass heavy rave music.
Audience members may experience close proximity to performers, crowd movement, and heightened sound and sensory intensity. Participation is voluntary, and audiences may step away at any time.
If you require access support, please speak with the Council officer on site.
