LOOKS like a tourist

LOOKS LIKE A TOURIST is a new, site-specific, large scale choreographic work designed to be presented in public space, specifically iconic tourist destinations.

It brings together 50+ community participants donning inflatable orange suits, for an en masse, visual spectacle exploring the behaviours and impacts of tourism on our built environments. Created by award-winning artists and choreographers Daniele Constance and Ashleigh Musk, Like a Tourist aims to rewrite a narrative of disconnect from the romanticism of touristic adventures (being a tourist) to the potentially disturbing and damaging effects tourists (and humans at large) have on our natural (and social) environments. The orange suits strive to create a position of cultural and demographic anonymity, allowing the wearers to become unidentified strangers, exploring iconic destinations in a touristic and unencumbered way. It creates a liminal space for belonging and not belonging, while concurrently highlighting the inherent nature of tourism as a culture of estrangement and consumption.

While audience members watch from designated viewing locations, 50+ performing participants saturate an iconic tourist destination with scale, dynamism and influence. Drawing on the actions, physicalities and movements of ‘tourists’ as the foundation for the choreographic score; while nostalgic tourism advertisements, cash and urban development sounds shape the complimenting sound composition.

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Image credits: Jade Ellis

CREATIVE TEAM

Director - Daniele Constance

Choreographer - Ashleigh Musk

Sound Design - Anna Whitaker

Dramaturgy - Liesel Zink

Collaborating Artists - Katina Olsen, Lauren Watson