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“Life In Movement has become much more than a biography or even a tribute to Liedtke’s unique character and talent… this film is a moment of triumph”
Patrick McDonald, The Advertiser

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Performing Lines seeks an innovative energetic Associate Producer to work in the Sydney office assisting in the delivery of productions from inception to stage and tour, nationally and internationally.

Downloads:
Position Profile – Associate Producer

Enquiries:
fenn@performinglines.org.au

On iview now – well worth the watch…
http://www.abc.net.au/iview/#/view/904539

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Award winning composer David Chisholm takes up themes of celebrity, identity and narcissism in the darkly comic music-theatre work Revival.

Dorothy Days, an amalgam diva/ingénue, makes a Faustian pact with a devilish agent to snare the lead role of Medusa in the 20th anniversary revival of the musical Revival. From this cliché premise Chisholm blends the menacing sounds of fairground organs with a live, five-piece string quartet in a work for four performers that rips apart the conceptual fabric of the Broadway genre musical in a fast paced, biting satire on demoralised celebrity culture.

Revival was first developed in early 2010 by the cult cast of Meow Meow, Yana Alana, Tina Del Twist and Mikelangelo lead by director Sapidah Kian. Described as both hilarious and insidiously affecting, this fast-paced, semi-narrative work is an incisive critique of Hollywood and Broadway culture that constantly shifts the audience’s relationship with the characters, as layers of stock situations and storytelling unfold.

David Chisholm is one of Australia’s most acclaimed and influential composers. His work with Balletlab won him three Green Room Awards and in 2011 KURSK: An Oratorio Requiem was universally acclaimed by critics and audiences alike.

Revival is scheduled to premiere in Australia in 2013. Subsequent touring of the show can be either as a mid-scale touring work or as a hire production that can be rehearsed and performed by locally profiled performers.

Photo by Jon Green

Three unforgettable characters Charlie, Elsa and Fay take you back to 1940s post-war Perth. Back to curfews and  consorting on the sly at ‘The Club’ .That magical place where white and black are ‘allowed ‘ to meet and dance the night away to swinging tunes and soulful singing. However a dark edge is creeping into the night…

Forty years on as the club faces demolition, Charlie, Elsa and Fay meet up at their old stomping ground. No nostalgia party, they confront a series of long held and bitter secrets and discover that reconciliation is more than just saying ‘sorry’.

Interspersed with edgy, ‘black’ vaudeville humour and political satire with bite, this is a truly unforgettable night in the theatre!

Waltzing the Wilarra*, an Aboriginal music theatre work, is written and composed by multi-award winning playwright David Milroy (Windmill Baby) and directed by Wesley Enoch (The Sapphires); a teaming of one of Australia’s most exciting Indigenous directors with one of its most successful writers.

*wilarra means full moon

Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company website

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Individual audience members enter a specially constructed, full-scale child’s bedroom to immerse themselves in the world of a little girl in a 21st century fairy tale via an iPad. The film, shot to a cinematic quality, moves through the space requiring the audience to move with it.

Alma Mater uses the concept of a ‘blank site’ to celebrate the power of the imagination to rise above the humdrum and envisage a more colourful existence. With an original score by John De Simone performed by experimental octet Ensemble Thing and cinematography from award-winner Anna Chaney, Alma Mater is a haunting meditation on family, familiarity and growing-up.

Fish and Game website

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Fish & Game is a creative partnership between Eilidh MacAskill and Robert Walton. Fish & Game create entertaining experimental art works that straddle theatre and Live Art. Eilidh MacAskill is based in Glasgow, Scotland and Robert Walton is based in Melbourne, Australia.

“A spine-tingling encounter” **** The Guardian, UK

“It’s not everyday that you are offered a brand new way of looking at the world. But Eilidh MacAskill and Robert Walton’s piece gives you just that.” The Stage, UK

“Alma Mater created a new, and entirely mesmerising world that transcends theatre, film and storytelling to become a whole new genre.” The Skinny, UK

Image by Rebecca Rutter

Each edition is digitally and physically archived within the book structure, and then added to or replaced by the next edition. In conjunction with local artists, Well serves the book structure as performers and facilitators of contemporary people’s imagination and sharing.

The book has been seen in 6 editions across 4 countries: Australia, Macau, Mexico and Korea.

The most recent edition: Book of Risings at the Hi Seoul Festival May 2011,  saw responses to the possibility and problems of new cultural forms, new communities coming together, and the need for a rise in dialogue and sharing toward peoples across borders. Book of Risings paid homage to the forgotten stories of Korean peoples who have risen and fallen in the tumult of war and occupation and those who will rise (again).

The result was a 10-day program for Hi Seoul Festival featuring new performance works and collaborations, public mural, video art and animation, live music and cross art collisions.

“There is something irresistible in a book made out of books, a book, moreover, that you can walk into and climb inside, a book you can write in, a book that is a receptacle for your own discarded books, that is at once an art object and a literal and metaphorical theatre.” Alison Croggon, Theatre Notes

Well’s website