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Black Coffee was performed during the Adelaide Fringe Festival in 2009. Tickets sold out 2 weeks before opening night. Black Coffee was restaged on 16 May 2009 at the Mt Barker Jazz Festival. About Black
Coffee About Black CoffeeWhen you leave after Black Coffee, you will have been immersed in an experience that includes the cool of jazz, the aroma of coffee, the buzz of 1950s subculture .... As you enter, you'll be transported - all front of house staff will be dressed from the era, and will behave as if they are workers in a jazz club. The band will already be playing - it's meant to be a club after all, not a theatre performance that waits for all the audience is seated before it starts. When the band gets to end of its set, the club owner/MC will announce that the dance show is about to begin. It will be glitz, glamour and sparkling smiles. But at some stage, you may notice the people at the next table are behaving strangely, and you'll wonder if they are for real, or whether it's part of the show. That's the twist. As well as seeing the dazzling brilliance the performer shows you onstage, you'll get to see behind the scenes. A series of short vignettes off-stage will reveal what goes on before and after the curtain goes up - the self-doubt, the competition, the personal relationships. The fake smile will be gone, the stylized jazz movements, the artificial façade. Instead, contemporary dance, combined with dialogue, text or voice over, will tell the back-story, somewhere outside the traditional performing space. The boundary between audience and performers will be dissolved. Black Coffee will be performed at the Domain Theatre at Marion Cultural Centre during the Adelaide Fringe Festival in March 2009. Read more ...Press release Back in black That 'aint decaf by Paul Ransom Press release Why is the mayor going to dance class? CollaboratorsLive music by the Charlie Horst Jazz Orchestra SupportersGrant Funding: City of Marion, Community Grant Media partner: Dance Informa, Australia's online dance magazine Inkind support: Woodform Furniture+Kitchens, set construction and materials Coffee supplied by Vittoria Coffee, espresso machine, coffee beans, barista training Costume support from Directions Dance Academy Hair and makeup support by Plush hair and makeup studio
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