LEGENDS (of the Golden Arches) 

Joe Paradise Lui & Merlynn Tong

Producer: Jeremy Smith and Joo Tan
jeremy@performinglineswa.org.au
joo@performinglineswa.org.au

A powerful and deeply personal examination of the Asian cultural experience and the enduring power of friendship. It showcases the hard-to-articulate blue-collar religiosity that doesn’t exist in Australia and challenges the notion of Chinese culture as sacred.

Two old besties, Merlynn and Joe, find themselves in the midst of a traditional Chinese funeral for their grandfathers in Australia. As they spend the night in vigil, performing the traditional rites of mourning families, they clash over the preservation of culture and tradition.

HONÓUR 

BEAT Entertainment

Producer: Kath Papas
kath@perfominglines.org.au

A multi-disciplinary work to be performed in public spaces which elevates and celebrates our Queer POC elders. The work will be a ceremony of love, recognition and an unmissable party.

From Here, Together 

Emma Fishwick

Producer: Jen Leys
jen@performinglineswa.org.au

What was discarded becomes new again in an upcycling of choreographic intent and a redirection of the original.  

Equally hypnotic and hauntingly beautiful, From Here, Together looks at space and how it informs our views of gender, power, and labour among other concepts. 

SA/MOA

Lila Meleisea

Producer: Sinsa Mansell
sinsa@performinglinestas.org.au

A truly hybrid project, SA/MOA tells of Oceanic resilience and relationship as Tasmanian Samoan, Lila Meleisea, expands her music and community-based practice to roles as visual artist, artistic director and curator.

SA/MOA takes two simultaneous forms; a performance/exhibition space and a space for knowledge-sharing and community. 

M’ap Boulé 

Nancy Denis

Producers: Jane Schon
jane@performinglines.org.au

Experience the lyrical storytelling of M’ap Boulé – a dramatic Cabaret about a child born of immigrants growing up in a country called Australia. Nancy Denis shares funny and pivotal stories from her journey to embrace her Black, Queer, Haitian and Australian identities, framed by the pain and joy she carries from her self-liberated Ancestors who revolted against their colonisers and created the first black-led republic of Haiti.

Glass Child 

The Farm

Producer: Vanessa Wright
vanessa@performinglines.org.au

Glass Child is a poignantly revealing depiction of the sibling relationship between Kayah, a young man with Down syndrome and his sister Maitreyah. Expressed through dance, theatre and storytelling Glass Child highlights their connection and how their lives have been affected by other people’s perceptions.

Aunty

BEAT Entertainment

Producer: Kath Papas
kath@perfominglines.org.au

AUNTY is BEAT Entertainment’s Inter-Indiginational-Kiki which is part cabaret, part party. AUNTY is a celebration of Music, Black Women, Queer Icons, Indigenous Royalty and everything FABULOUS in between. Creating and fostering important space for LGBTQIA+ communities centreing QTBIPOC artists and audience FIRST.

Us And All Of This

Liesel Zink

Producer: Jane Schon
jane@performinglines.org.au

In a world increasingly defined by rising geopolitical tension, ecological mismanagement, deteriorating labour conditions and social isolation, Liesel Zink’s Us And All Of This offers a rare moment of calm reflection. Bringing together 100 local dancers for a large-scale contemporary performance work, unfolding across large plots of urban public space, not in the pursuit of profiteering , but in the pursuit of togetherness and communion.

Rinse

Amrita Hepi

Producer: Thom Smyth
thom@performinglines.org.au

What is it about the beginning that remains intoxicating? Our persistent lust for the first rush of a romance, scene, canon, theory, relationship, meal or country. Created by extraordinary dance artist Amrita Hepi, Rinse explores the romance of beginnings and what happens next, when those initial thrills begin to fade and inertia takes over.

Enemies of Grooviness Eat Sh*t 

Betty Grumble

Producer: Thom Smyth
thom@performinglines.org.au

After a decade of playing within her spiritual access point and avatar, Betty Grumble – performance artist Emma Maye Gibson re-emerges. A self reflective, regenerative dive into the compost bin of making and moving through the trouble; of defying the ever-present cultures of violence and ecocide. Bowing to the powers of Grief and Love Energy, Rage Energy, Hope Energy & Fuck Energy, Gibson invites you to sit with and honour the legacy of makers, mentors, friends, lovers and ‘enemies’ that have formed an ecosystem of aliveness within the perils of eco-grief and structures that certainly no longer serve us.

ARCO 

Adam Kelly

Producer: Cecile Lucas
cecile@performinglineswa.org.au

ARCO is Adam Kelly’s award-wining show about living with autism, or, in Finbar the fish’s case, living in water. The show takes a heartfelt look at the life and struggles of a young man trying to make connections with the people and world around him. Along the way Adam asks gently of his audience to consider life from his perspective.

Stunt Double

The Farm

Producer: Vanessa Wright
vanessa@performinglines.org.au

Cycling through take after take of high octane stunts; flips, jumps, fights and more; the doubles put their body on the line while the actors reap the glory. In Stunt Double it’s the hardest working people who get paid the least and exploited the most. Sound familiar? Well that’s because some things never change. The show is a hilarious tongue in cheek dive into the complex and absurd power dynamics of the film industry, into exploitation as a bloodsport; and the human costs of celebrity and our quest to come out on top.

WAKE 

THE RABBLE

Producer: Kath Papas
kath@perfominglines.org.au

Exploring the ever-increasing hostility towards women’s bodies particularly for older people, WAKE features acts of artistic courage created by the participating women, featuring anything from a ukulele solo to a professional wrestling bout; a Shakespeare monologue to a political speech. In an age of dislocation, WAKE is a work of solidarity.

UNWOMAN

THE RABBLE

Producer: Kath Papas
kath@perfominglines.org.au

Unwoman is song.
Unwoman is a crime.
Unwoman is a real and substantial risk.

UNWOMAN is an epic and imagistic piece of feminist theatre created in both Ireland and Australia, examining reproductive rights, experiences of pregnancy and bodily autonomy.

Equations of a Falling Body

Laura Boynes

Producer: Jen Leys
jen@performinglineswa.org.au

Our contemporary world is wildly unpredictable. The ‘elsewhere’ of distant forces – climate, cosmos, politics, memory – continually intervene in our everyday lives. It’s mostly beyond our control – encountered as idle distractions, radical interruptions or insistent voices inside that re-shape and cypher our thoughts and desires.

Slow Burn, Together

Emma Fishwick

Producer: Jen Leys
jen@performinglineswa.org.au

Through a series of living pictures that collectively form a visual epic, Slow Burn, Together contemplates a female perspective of a world where we can be gentle, journey inward and pay attention to the experience of sitting longer with our thoughts, our ideas and time itself. There isn’t a singularity to each moment on stage, rather a slow experience, a collection of encounters that create an ongoing conversation between you and the work.

Beneath the Music 

Jay Emmanuel

Producer: Jeremy Smith
jeremy@performinglineswa.org.au

Beneath the Music is an exploration of the journey from resistance to acceptance of queerness, especially by those we hold dear. Created by Jay Emmanuel and written by Karthika Naïr, this poetic new physical theatre work is, above all, a celebration of gender fluidity and queerness across generations, traditions, and cultures.

Beneath the Music is a story of a mother and son’s journey of acceptance. A story driven by love, it is ultimately a search for identity and understanding that will strike a chord with anyone who has ever felt they are living in two worlds.

SPHINX

THE RABBLE

Producer: Kath Papas
kath@perfominglines.org.au

A cinematic performance installation investigating the role of the care giver as a gendered experience.

In 1977 Laura Mulvey made Riddles of the Sphinx, a film investigating her own work on the male gaze. Using Mulvey’s and other feminist filmmakers’ techniques THE RABBLE will create an event that looks at the role of the care giver. The camera not used as a tool to enhance the auteur’s gaze, but instead focusing on the small tasks of the care giver. It aims to decimate the traditional uses of the camera in live performance and search for a new kind of dramaturgy.

Love Less Tender 

Raghav Handa

Producer: Vanessa Wright
vanessa@performinglines.org.au

Love Less Tender looks at the complexity of love and pleasure through the Sanskrit scripture, Kama Sutra.  

The piece, a danced, spoken and sung conversation between the quartet, explores the motivations behind and the borders that lie between love & pleasure and how they are shaped by personal, cultural & contemporary forces.  What would you do for love? Is it ever too much?  Is pleasure always guilty? 

Future Proof 

Gravity Dolls

Producer: Kath Papas
kath@performinglines.org.au

Future Proof invites you to witness a dreamscape of our world in this critical juncture. Systems faltering. Tectonic plates colliding. A planet fighting for survival. Ordinary people just trying to get out of bed. Future Proof brings to life the beauty and absurdity of our collective moment − asking what keeps us going, and what got us here.

Nails Must Be Kept Short

Sophie Davis, Laura McDonald Harry Collins

Producer: Thom Smyth
thom@performinglines.org.au

A two-act Australian queer netball musical: Nails Must Be Kept Short.

A story that celebrates coming of age, coming out and Netball: the biggest team sport in Australia, played by over 1.2 million people. 

Aunty

BEAT Entertainment

Producer: Kath Papas
kath@performinglines.org.au

AUNTY is BEAT Entertainment’s Inter-Indiginational-Kiki which is part cabaret, part party. AUNTY is a celebration of Music, Black Women, Queer Icons, Indigenous Royalty and everything FABULOUS in between. Creating and fostering important space for LGBTQIA+ communities centreing QTBIPOC artists and audience FIRST.

HONÓUR 

BEAT Entertainment

Producer: Kath Papas and Haneen Mahmood Martin
kath@performinglines.org.au
haneen@performinglines.org.au

A multi-disciplinary work to be performed in public spaces which elevates and celebrates our Queer POC elders, made in consultation with Aunty Denise Kickett. The work will be a ceremony of love, recognition and an unmissable party.

Us And All Of This

Liesel Zink

Producer: Jane Schon
jane@performinglines.org.au

In a world increasingly defined by rising geopolitical tension, ecological mismanagement, deteriorating labour conditions and social isolation, Liesel Zink’s Us And All Of This offers a rare moment of calm reflection. Bringing together 100 local dancers for a large-scale contemporary performance work, unfolding across large plots of urban public space, not in the pursuit of profiteering , but in the pursuit of togetherness and communion.

Simon Wellington
Executive Producer

Simon@performinglines.orr.au

Vanessa Wright
Senior Producer NSW

vanessa@performinglines.org.au

Haneen Mahmood Martin
Producer

haneen@performinglines.org.au

Cecile Lucas
Producer WA

cecile@performinglineswa.org.au