WELCOME TO LEG DAY
As Legs embarks on our fortieth year we are celebrating! As well as looking towards exciting things to come, we’re also looking back, posting a compilation of memorabilia, images, & videos from the archives. Watch this space
A promo clip capturing Legs works including Homeland, appearances at Australia Square, the Queen Victoria Building and other iconic performances
Legs Off The Wall, performed in 1990 at The Performance Space in Redfern and directed by Keith Gallash, Legs Off The Wall was a showcase of Legs’ ambition and the degree of talent Legs was working with from the get go.
All of Me was a masterpiece of physical storytelling, exploring the strangeness, pain, and love associated with being alive. It began in 1993, and was toured nationally and internationally through to 1997. After a short hiatus it was remounted in 2001, 2002 and finally 2005.
Wildheart (1994): drawing from tales of Adam, Eve, and Lilith, as well as anthropological texts, the show interrogated the idea of civilisation, of what we think it is, how we impose on others, and how thin the line between wild and civilised really is.
Footage from Legs' 1996-99 show Clearance. A joyful nod to Legs roots in street performance, Clearance was a street show that toured around Australia, the UK, Europe, and even made it all the way to Brazil!
Performed in 1996 at the iconic Australia Square building in central Sydney for the Sydney Festival, and then again in Stockton UK the same year, Expendable was a spectacle of street performance, aerials, and physical theatre. In many ways it is quintessential Legs: a lot of what you see here are things we’re still doing! (Hanging off the side of buildings is kind of our thing 💅)
From 2003, Cloak of Feathers was an exercise in finding alternative ways of speaking
A Patrick Nolan creation from 2011, My Bicycle Loves You is a ghostly, surreal show based on a collection of 130 early 20th century films produced by the Corrick Family of New Zealand, which are brought to life by seven characters sharing an apartment block
Beautiful Noise was a collaboration between Legs and Brisbane's RAW dance company. Directed by Anton and performed in 2011 at the Brisbane Powerhouse, Beautiful Noise celebrated the intricate relationship between sound and the potential of the human body
Cat’s Cradle was a 2018 collaboration between Legs and FORM dance company, directed by our current artistic director Joshua Thomson. A highly physical spectacle, the show’s two performers Angie Diaz and Macarena Brevi wrestle with an incredible apparatus built by David Jackson in an exploration of intimacy
Take a look back in time at Legs logos through the ages!