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TODD FULLER

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Billy's Swan, 2017

In Peter Darling's choreography of the 'Dream Ballet' sequence for the musical Billy Elliot, a young Billy undertakes a Pas de deux with a chair. Set to the dramatic sound track of Tchaikovsky's Swan lake, Darling subverts the safety of the ballet barre replacing it with a mesmerising spinning chair balanced on pointe in an impossible manner. The chair loses its stability to become a menacing, uncanny obstacle to the dance. Yet, a young Billy flawlessly moves with strength, determination, control and grace, turning his spinning foe into an unlikely dance partner. Appropriating this choreography, the Artist creates a self portrait animated in pastel on paper. Through it, Fuller re-lives childhood experiences as a pseudo 'Billy Elliot' dancing in rural community. With fading technique, his hand drawn solo reflects on the relationship between gender, dance, and place and the ability for queer community to draw resilience, strength and beauty from the most chaotic of moments.  


billy re thinks his repertoire.JPG
a pirouette by the ghost of a spinning chair.JPG
arobesque times three.JPG
at the end of the climax.JPG
barre.JPG
billy stretching.JPG
billy with ghost of chair.JPG
dance of the flying chair.JPG
double beats.jpg
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Fuller_Todd_Billy'sSwan_hand drawn animation 2017.jpg
extend with chair.JPG
ghost of a chair in flight.JPG
mid-corkscrew.JPG
open across the chest.JPG
prepare with a chair.JPG
procession in blue.JPG
realisation of an impossible spin.JPG
remnants of the spinning chair with billy.JPG
remnants with chair.JPG
remnants.JPG
rotating chair solo.JPG
the chorus resting.JPG
the first movement.........JPG
untitled billy.JPG
untitled movement with chair.JPG

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