Hot on the heels of a successful crash-course incarnation at the Unity Festival in Cardiff, Wales, THE DEMOCRATIC SET will soon be deployed again, this time to the InBetween Time International Festival of Live Art & Arnolfni (Bristol, UK) and Aarhus Festival (Denmark).
Disturbingly obvious and tantalisingly strange, THE DEMOCRATIC SET is a residency model for creating a rapid series of short live performances and screen-based video portraits in collaboration with local artists or communities.
THE DEMOCRATIC SET is a cavalcade of portrait, soap box and drama.
THE DEMOCRATIC SET begins with a purpose built film set, an empty box, an egalitarian environment for performance. Conceived as an offer and an invitation to artists, the box is capable of framing live and filmed performance.
THE DEMOCRATIC SET explores the social ideal that all people are, in principle, equal and should enjoy social, political and economic rights and opportunities.
AARHUS FESTIVAL
Residency 26 August – 1 September 2010
For more information, visit the Aarhus Festival website
INBETWEEN TIME INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF LIVE ART
Part 1 – In Residence at Arnolfini 3 – 8 September 2010
Part 2 – Gala Showing at Arnolfini 1 December 2010
For more information, please keep your eye on the InBetween Time Festival & Arnolfini websites
Given life by a creator driven by ambition, FRANKENSTEIN’s rejected monster becomes an outcast. Seeking only acceptance and companionship the monster’s stirring resentment builds to murderous anger, violently concluding in a vendetta between creator and creation.
Performed by a cast of 18 actors in collaboration with director James Pratt, musical director Jo Lange, lighting designer Jenny Hector and costume designer Emily Barry. In a dynamic theatrical interpretation of Shelley’s classic novel, THEATRE OF SPEED question who is different, who is powerful, and who is more human - ‘Man’ or ‘Monster’?
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We are very excited to announce that we will be in residence with Ever After Theatre Company at Sydney Theatre Company next month.
The mentorship involving eight performers from the Ever After Theatre Company, working under the guidance of Back to Back Theatre will take place from April 19 - 23 in partnership with the Australia Council for the Arts and Accessible Arts NSW at Sydney Theatre Company.
The Back to Back and Ever After mentorship will involve a week of intensive workshops at STC with actors from both theatre companies and directors from Back to Back. There will be an opportunity for interested people to participate in an open workshop run by Back to Back Theatre, as part of the week of workshops. The week will conclude with an informal public showing at STC on April 23 at 2pm.
For more information or to book your place at the workshop or the public showing, please contact Susan Johnston via email at everaftertheatre@gmail.com or via phone on 02 95558988.
After touring to 29 cities worldwide, we are thrilled to announce that we will present the 30th season of the multi-award winning small metal objects in our hometown of Geelong.
small metal objects will be presented by the Geelong Performing Arts Centre at Westlfield Geelong from 15-18 April 2010.
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Back to Back Theatre employs an ensemble of seven professional actors who are perceived to have an intellectual disability.
If you are are over 16 and have an intellectual disability and you would like to attend an audition workshop with Back to Back, please contact Marcia Ferguson via email at marcia@backtobacktheatre.com or by phoning 03 5221 2029 for more information.
Auditions are being held on 25 February and 1 and 2 March 2010.
FOOD COURT with The Necks will be presented at the Barbican Centre in London from 23-25 June 2010.
The Barbican is Europe's largest multi-arts and conference venue presenting a diverse range of art, music, theatre, dance, film and education events. We visited in 2007 with small metal objects and we are so happy to be returning with FOOD COURT.
Whilst in London, The Necks will be performing a special one-off concert on the 26th of June.
We will be sure to keep you up to date with all the details.
FOOD COURT will be presented in the Dunstan Playhouse at the Adelaide Festival Centre over 4 nights from 3-6 March 2010 as part of the Adelaide Festival.
A post-show forum with collaborating artists will follow the performance on Thursday 4th of March.
Compression is key to Food Court, which, like an elegant picture of barbed wire, depicts
violence, beauty and tragedy in a single piercing image. Food Court pricks the conscience,
senses, skin - RealTime
For more information or to make a booking, please visit the Adelaide Festival website.
You can view the full Adelaide Festival Program online.
Back to Back Theatre is inviting participants from Geelong and beyond to participate in open workshops in dance, acting and improvisation. Join community participants from Theatre of Speed and some of Australia's most admired and respected directors and choreographers on Wednesday 11, 18, and 25 of November and 2 December 2009.
Places are limited. Cost is free. Subsidies for transport are available.
Workshops are open to participants aged 16 and over, of any ability and experience.
For details or to register contact Stacey Baldwin or call 03 5221 2029.
At the 42nd annual AWGIE Awards on Friday 28th of August, Back to Back Theatre was awarded the Kit Denton Fellowship for it's new work in development, GANESH VERSUS THE THIRD REICH. The purpose of the $25,000 fellowship is to promote courage, to champion bold and challenging ideas and to reward talent and excellence in performance writing. The Company will continue to develop GANESH VERSUS THE THIRD REICH in 2009-10 with the production scheduled to premiere in 2011.
The Fellowship was created in 2007 to honour the work and memory of Kit Denton, a respected and admired member of the writing community.
The father of media personality Andrew Denton, Kit was a lifetime member of the Australian Writers' Guild, a scriptwriter, author, poet and lyricist.
Reflecting the courage of Kit's own work, the purpose of the Fellowship is to promote courage, to champion bold and challenging ideas, and to reward talent and excellence in performance writing. The $25,000 annual Kit Denton Fellowship provides the recipient(s) with material and practical support to assist in the development a new writing project.
GANESH VERSUS THE THIRD REICH is co-authored by members of the Back to Back Ensemble of actors, in collaboration with Artistic Director, Bruce Gladwin and is an exploration of cultural appropriation in all forms, be it the theft of symbols, icons, rituals, aesthetic standards, or behaviour from one culture or subculture by another. Taking in the territories of nationalism, globalisation, multiculturalism, religion, spirituality and pop-culture, its single linear narrative is presented as a hero’s journey.
The Fellowship will be presented at the 42nd Annual AWGIE Awards to be held 28th August 2009.
Back to Back would like to congratulate all of the other short-listed writers; Robert Reid for The New Black, Karl Madderom for Face Value and Bobbie Waterman, Lisa Hoppe and Margot O'Neill for Blind Conscience.
Follow this link to the AWGIE Awards page on the Australian Writers' Guild website for more information.
