Join Phluxus Dance Collective and Brian Lucas as they EXPLODE, EXPOSE and EXPLORE the boundaries of performance. Take them on at their own game, centre-stage, as they tackle the whole messy issue of reality and ask the burning question: WHO IS PERFORMING FOR WHOM?

Enter from backstage. Move into the performance space. Watch the performers invade the seating bank, cross the stage and mess with every expectation of theatre etiquette. Somewhere in the middle of it all is Louise, a life-sized black-and-white cow - the show’s director.. but be careful - “Don’t look at the f**king cow!”

Enter a parallel world where the inescapable, solid reality of performance collides with the wildly imaginative and unpredictable thing that is reality. The audience becomes a character. The lines between on and off stage blur. The best intentions of creating a profound work of art go out the window as four performers abandon any sense of theatre etiquette and let the performance take on a life of its own.

An exciting collaboration between award-winning dancer-actor Brian Lucas and Phluxus Dance Collective founders (Nerida Matthaei, Skye Sewell and Chafia Brooks), The Opposite of Prompt brought together four diversely different performer-creators from two generations of Australian dance. Intellectually gripping, intricate and very human, the work played with, extended and explored the differences and synchronicities between them.

Part dance, part theatre, part Dada-esque mischief and part participatory sport, The Opposite of Prompt delighted in deconstructing and demystifying what it means to perform. As RealTime wrote, it “seduced the audience” without backing away from the questions it threw into the air, resulting in a “uniquely grounded collective style—seriously funky.”