Mirabelle Wouters and Lee Wilson founded Branch Nebula in 1998. They create distinctive, hybrid movement-based performance combining dance, theatre, acrobatics, music and design to create powerful and visceral experiences for audiences.
Currently in development are Concrete and Bone Sessions and Whelping Box.
Branch Nebula’s recent work Sweat, premiered at Performance Space Sydney (2010), toured to Dance Massive in Melbourne (2011) and to the ‘In Transit’ festival at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin in June 2011. Sweat is Branch Nebula’s latest major ensemble work after the critical acclaim and success of the Helpmann nominated Paradise City, which toured nationally and internationally after its premiere at Sydney Opera House in 2006. Paradise City toured Australia as part of Mobile States (2008), and toured to four international festivals in Brazil (2007).
Branch Nebula works across disciplines in performance, dance and design to challenge mainstream cultural conventions. They often work with non-conventional performers, who are highly skilled and ethnically diverse; to collaboratively devise work that defies categorization. Branch Nebula interrogates the audience experience and explores contemporary culture as a means of creating access and speaking to a broad audience.
New works in development by Branch Nebula include Whelping Box, a collaboration with Matt Prest and Clare Britton (Hole in the Wall, The Tent), and Concrete and Bone Sessions, a large-scale site-specific work set in a skate-park.
In 2004 Branch Nebula co-produced Plaza Real with Urban Theatre Projects, and conducted a creative development for Mrs. White, a solo performance by Mirabelle Wouters. In 2002 they remounted Sentimental Reason at Performance Space, Sydney and at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts. In the same year, Branch Nebula created Cattle Prod, a new short work whilst in residency in Brussels (Belgium) at ‘Les Bain Connective’. In May 2002, Branch Nebula presented Sentimental Reason, Cattle Prod and Rose Turtle Ertler at KC Nona in Mechelen (Belgium). Mad Red, a full-length work, was their first production and was presented by the Victoria Festival in Ghent (Belgium) in 2000, before touring to Bern in Switzerland for the Auawirleben festival.
Branch Nebula’s works
Sweat
Paradise City
Concrete and Bone Sessions
Whelping Box