A woman in a 70's floral dress leans backwards on a kitchen bench in front of a clashing floral curtain. She has one arm bent with her hand reaching upwards as if to catch something, and a slightly worried look on her face.

A woman dressed in a multi-coloured pointy-textured jumpsuit sits on a bed in a caravan. There are dark pink straps over her shoulders and she wears a pink and yellow headband in her short red curly hair. Her legs are folded in as she sits on her right hip supported by her right arm behind her. She is looking to the left with a scared expression on her face. The wall behind has a brown and yellow checked head rest below timber veneer panelling, and a cream curtain covers a window.

A woman looks pensively to her right with light falling on her face as though she is looking out a window. There are dark pink straps over her shoulders and she wears a pink and yellow headband in her short red curly hair. In another room behind her is a bed with a white sheet on it. The wall behind it is brown and yellow checked material and a cream curtain covers a window.

Cabin Fever

Dance • Site-specific

South Australia

Nominated Best Dance & Physical Theatre, Melbourne Fringe 2019

Weekly Winner, Best Dance, Adelaide Fringe 2019 & 2020

Reid creates unique boutique performances combining dance, physical theatre and video projection in unusual locations, including underground tunnels, train carriages and convent hallways. “Cabin Fever,” originally set in a cabin for Adelaide Fringe 2019, then re-developed into a vintage caravan for a maximum of 8 audience members. Expect to move and be moved in this half hour encounter with a woman contemplating escape.

★★★★★"a marvellous work, deeply, and intimately engaging... Reid's is a rare skill indeed." Peter Burdon, The Advertiser

“Funny, shrewd, lightning fast, mind-f***ingly, ricochetingly clever! Left me breathless” Chris Boyd@MelbourneArts

Presented by: Dianne Reid

Dianne Reid is a dance and screen artist who creates and performs work across multiple platforms—the abstract physical, the screendance filmic, and the written poetic. She was a founding member of Outlet Dance, Adelaide (1987–89), a member of Danceworks, Melbourne (1990–95), and a lecturer in dance at Deakin University from 1996. Since 1993 she has created over 50 screendance works, many of which have screened internationally. Dianne premiered “Cabin Fever” at the 2019 Adelaide Fringe, receiving 5 star reviews and winning the Adelaide Fringe Bank SA Weekly Award for Best Dance in 2019 & 2020. Cabin Fever was also nominated for Best Dance and Physical Theatre at the Melbourne Fringe 2019.