FOOD COURT will be presented at the Opera Theatre over 2 nights only from 9-10 June 2009.
For more information or to make a booking, please visit the Sydney Opera House website.
Brian Eno, who describes the Luminous artists as "defying obvious categorisation", will also appear in conversation with various performers and collaborate on a final concert called Pure Scenius.
The Necks will appear "in conversation" with Brian Eno on the 14th of June 2009.
You can view the full Luminous Program online
SMALL METAL OBJECTS will tour to Linz (Austria) as part of European Culture Capital 09 program; Ljubljana (Slovenia) for the Exodos Festival; Hamburg (Germany) at Kampnagel and Bristol (UK), a co-production of Arnolfini and Bristol Old Vic.
Visit the SMALL METAL OBJECTS page for more details.
Visit the Linz 09 website
Visit the Exodos Festival website
Visit the Kampnagel Festival website
Visit the Arnolfini website
Disturbingly obvious and tantalisingly strange, THE DEMOCRATIC SET is a rapid series of short live performances and screen-based video portraits created with local residents. With no individual performance lasting longer than 1 minute, THE DEMOCRATIC SET is a cavalcade of portrait, soap box and drama.
Individuals from the local community are invited to have their video portrait taken on set, on Friday 3 April. Each video portrait will take approximately 10 minutes to film. The portraits will appear along with live performance created by participants from Creatability Events Network (Bendigo) and Windarring (Castlemaine) on Saturday 4 April at 2pm.
Phee Broadway Theatre
Mechanics Lane, Castlemaine
Portraits - Friday 3rd April, 10-3pm
Performance - Sat 4th April, 2pm
All tickets are $10 for the performance (portraits free)
Bookings
Call the Castlemaine State Festival box office: 03 5434 6100 or visit the Castlemaine State Festival website
Back to Back will be in residence at Nelson Park School in North Geelong from April - November 09.
Back to Back will curate a series of weekly workshops facilitated by professional artists around the thematic of Art and Space and will endeavour to respond organically to the interests of the students at the school. The residency is based on developing the individual voices of students by engaging with experimental multi-artform contemporary theatre practice.
Nelson Park students will share the work they create with family members and the school community via informal showings of their work and ideas.
Please contact Marcia Ferguson for more information
The Australian - 17 October 2008
By Alison Croggon
"Food Court is a triumph. It's the most emotionally overwhelming theatre I've seen since Ariane Mnouchkine's Le Dernier Caravanserail: a work of devastating honesty and, ultimately, extraordinary beauty that confirms Back to Back as a key player in contemporary theatre..."
Read the complete review on The Australian website
Theatre Notes Blog - 16 October 2008
By Alison Croggon
"Every now and then a show comes along and reminds you that theatre is a burning glass, that it can be an art that focuses experience into an emotional thermic lance which sears through the intellect into the tissue of deep feeling, right where it hurts. Such theatre reminds you that, as Artaud said in his final madness, being alive is difficult; it reminds you that existence is cruel and painful, and - crucially - that the only way we can experience beauty is if we also open ourselves to pain and sorrow..."
Read the complete review on the Theatre Notes website
Australian Stage - 11 October 2008
By Avi Lipski
"Emerging from the darkness of backstage, led to the orchestra pit by a dim torchlight, The Necks begin to play. Their unique blend of avant-garde improvised jazz slowly envelops the space. The audience is transfixed by their hypnotic cacophony of sound...
Read the complete review on the Australian Stage website
GPAC General Manager Jill Smith made the announcement on Monday 22 September 08, just days after Back to Back was awarded a New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) for its season of small metal objects in New York’s prestigious Under the Radar festival.
Bookings: 03 5225 1200 or visit the GPAC website
visit the Food Court page for more information about the show
small metal objects has been awarded a New York Dance and Performance Award - a Bessie - for its January 2008 season at New York's Staten Island Ferry Terminal, presented by the Under the Radar festival (curated by Mark Russell).
The New York Dance and Performance Awards, informally known as the Bessie Awards in honour of Bessie Schonberg, are awarded annually for innovative achievement in dance and related performances, particularly so-called "downtown" performances.
The Judges’ cited that the Award had been given to Back to Back for “a work that revealed the choreography of commuter ebbs and flows in the Staten Island Ferry Terminal; for presenting an ordinary story in an extraordinary way.”
The annual Award ceremony is presented by Danspace Project and Dance Theater Workshop.
The Award was accepted in Manhattan on behalf of Back to Back Theatre by Under the Radar's Associate Producer, Meiyin Wang.
Back to Back makes its much anticipated return to the Melbourne International Arts Festival with its new work, FOOD COURT a collaboration with The Necks, one of the great cult bands of Australia.
For more information, go the the Food Court Page, or visit the Melbourne International Arts Festival website
From 2 - 9 November 2008, Back to Back to Back will be in residence at Restless Dance Co in Adelaide. The company will be conducting intensive masterclasses for members of No Strings Attached, Tutti Arts and Restless, and for the wider artistic community.
For more information about the residency, contact Restless on + 08 8212 8495.
www.restlessdance.org
small metal objects at Flynn Centre, Vermont, USA
small metal objects will be presented by Flynn Center for the Performing Arts from 17 – 18 May 2008
http://www.flynncenter.org/show_pages/FSX08B.shtml
small metal objects at On the Boards, Seattle, USA
small metal objects will be presented by On The Boards from 29 May – 1 June 2008
http://www.ontheboards.org/index.php?page=nps_detail&perfID=176
small metal objects at The Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, USA
small metal objects will be presented by The Walker Arts Center from 5 – 7 June 2008
http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=3939
small metal objects at Singapore Arts Festival
small metal objects will be presented by Singapore Arts Festival from 14 – 18 June 2008
http://www.singaporeartsfest.com/event_new.asp?t=3&pid=10&xaxis=0&yaxis=0
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