Cat Hope | Speechless Speechless (2019) is a contemporary Australian opera for four vocal soloists, bass orchestra and community choirs composed by Cat Hope. The work challenges contemporary notions of the operatic, creating an alternative libretto where words do not feature and no intended narrative is provided. Instead, Speechless communicates its intent to address a…
Giving Voice: Lior, Lou Bennett & Nigel Westlake Ngapa William Cooper came out of a rich collaboration between composer Nigel Westlake, singer-songwriter Lior, and performer and academic Dr Lou Bennett, exploring the story of Yorta Yorta activist William Cooper. In 1938 William Cooper led the Australian Aborigines’ League through the streets of Melbourne in the only…
Giving Voice: Sunny Kim Sunny Kim invited a group of musicians from different musical and cultural backgrounds to share stories of migration, dislocation and motherhood. Here, Sunny, Aviva Endean, Gelarah Pour & Mindy Meng Wang talk about mothers and motherlands, memory, longing and the act of making this piece together.
Endangered Species A collaborative film work created by Sarah Warsop, choreographer Siobhan Davies, film maker Deborah May and artist Sam Collins who, with mirrors and technical genius, enclosed the small, semi-human figure we filmed in an old museum display case. An ethereal otherworldly creature whose movements were exaggerated by the long willowy canes attached to…
Experience Collider is a gauntlet of shared obstacles; a performance of fantastic exchanges between young people with circus skills and those with a disability and high support needs. Director: Sam Fox. Producers: Simone Flavelle, DADAA and Jo Smith, Circus WA. 21 young people are on a journey together, moving through the Experience Collider. They all…
Or You Could Kiss Me Image: Adrian Kohler’s hand, puppets Old A and Old B and Basil Jones.