Dogfight explored the theme of entrapment in the format of an audience interactive installation. Visually vibrant set encompassed the environment, allowing for audience members to meander through and interact with both the performers and the surroundings. The performance offered its participants sweet warm floral cups of fruit tea, helpings of traditional cakes, opportunities for involvement, such as moving bricks and ripping down wall paper to reveal performers.
The intention was to create a totally sensorial experience and heighten the feeling of entrapment on an individual and personal level.
Inspiration for this type of performance work was evoked from the perspective of late choreographer Alwin Nikolais who was of the opinion that
'man is no longer content to perceive his world through the sensory dominance of the eye and the ear...were not content to see and hear; we want to smell, we want to taste, we want to feel our whole relationship to the environment and world' (Warenek, R, 1981, http://www.warunek.com/).
Tour booker Mark Makin of Makin Projects commented after reviewing 'Dogfight', that the company is:
'clever, witty and resourceful in the way that they adapt their site-specific productions to a range of challenging spaces and in the way that they present themselves as a company. A very interesting, bright and sparky emerging company. Definitely ones to watch' (Makin, July 2009).
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