Photographed by Pippa Samaya
“Hot & Heavy is a speculative fabulation that imagines non-binary, de-capitalised, and post-extractive futures. The show is an immersive aural, visual, and sensory experience that invites audiences to lose themselves, to go deep, and to shake free. Within this queer new world, the familiar terrain of domestic life is made strange: appliances are hacked and reimagined, the horror of human production lines and capitalist consumption is reframed, and the dance floor becomes a site of protest, pleasure, and collective power.
Audiences are drawn into a landscape of projected and augmented interiors, where immersive sound design, performance art, aerial movement, dance, and live electronic music converge. The iconic ironing board band becomes the pulsing core of a night that is at once thought-provoking, wildly entertaining, and deeply interactive. Performers and spectators blur into one another, caught in the swell of bodies moving en masse, and the unifying beat of a broken-down washing machine drives the search for utopia.”
Cast & Crew
Lead Creative/Sound Producer/Performer Patty Preece
Lead Creative/Visual Producer/Performer Melania Jack
Lead Creative/ Aerials Movement Director Leigh Anne Vizor
Director Steven Mitchell Wright
Vocals Director Bridget A'Beckett
Choreographer Tara Samaya
Dancer/Choreographer Damian Meredith
Dancer Jackie Sheppard
Aerialist/Dancer Asher Bowen-Saunders
Aerialist/Dancer Crystal Stacey
Vocalist Karrina Nolan
Rigger Lachy Shelley
Production Manager Steph Young
Community Engagement Producer Andi Snelling
Lighting Designer Natalia Velasco Moreno
Costume Designer / Maker Anastasia Velluti
Intern Indi Gordon