flying from an offbeat wigtilt

a densely researched performance installation that investigates the darker side of jazz, focussing on the genius, tragedy and excess of legendary musician charlie parker – musically as important as beethoven yet not regarded as such during his lifetime. he died penniless, drunk, liver drenched with whiskey and laughing at a juggler on tv.

wigtilt lets rip with a constant chaotic soundtrack of jazz back-beats, with skin-headed performers clad in enlarged pin-striped suits, dancing awkwardly thru a mondrian inspired installation, constructed entirely of aluminium squares with sections of video projecting thru. a complicated, emotive work that physically challenged pvi performers and extended experimentation with pvi’s darkly humorous digital performer b.u.d.d.i, given visual form via computer generated animations in the form of the first mathematical device – an abacus.