Darkin Ensemble - Augustine
- Composer:
- Sarah Moody
- Management:
- Darkin Ensemble
- Choreography:
- Fleur Darkin
Production information can change over the run of the show.
There are lots of things to like about choreographer Fleur Darkin. She's got brains and big ideas for a start. Her latest piece, Augustine, is inspired by photographs taken at Paris' Salpetriere Hospital in 1894, where the progressive Dr Charcot was studying the mysterious disease of hysteria. Charcot took pictures of his patients, trying to read their mental state through their physical expressions... May 3, 2007
This powerful and disturbing work was inspired by photographs taken in 1894 of patients at the Salpetrière Hospital in Paris, a notorious asylum where hysteria was first identified as mental illness by the radical Dr Charcot. His patients performed in lecture demonstrations and he used the images to educate... February 16, 2007
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