the ocean is filled with tears
And the sea turns into a mirror There's a whale in the moon when it's clear And a bird on the tide
- Tom Waits
Let Me Dry Your Eyes is a love story of sorts where two beings - a bird and a whale - are connected only where they can meet at the water’s surface. Audience will be invited to experience the work at the water’s edge, listen and view underwater through telescopes and hydrophones and possibly even join us in the pool.
In development in 2019 in collaboration with Nayri Niara Good Spirit Festival and Dancenorth A.R.T. Residency.
Supported by Arts Tasmania, the Alcorso Foundation, Regional Arts Fund and SEE supporters.
The eternal chain and the chain of who we are. The constant on and on.
We are never really gone.
Nothing is ever lost. The chain reaction. The rise and fall. The perpetual cycle.
The internal and the eternal.
The water teaches us the wisdom to Surrender to life and death. In my mind I surrender to the Breath. Without acceptance there will be a violent storm. Go with the flow.
Go with the chain.
Breathing it is life and it gives us birth. Listen to the water. The volume. The sound flowing and falling. Listen. To the water. Flowing. Falling. Falling flowing. Surrender.
Accepting death and life and death
-Luke John Campbell-
THE CHAIN is an installation based performance that will be created at Wilkinson's point.
What Makes You Beautiful is a film work staring ensemble member Alex Morris-Baguley who dreams of marrying One Direction. Yes- all of five of them.
Under the script/movement development of Sue Hayes and film direction of Rebecca Thomson we will begin the creative development of a Bollywood style musical that interrogates fame, fans and celebrity culture through the eyes of an adoring Directioner.
In development 2019-2020
Supported by Arts Tasmania, the Alcorso Foundation and SEE supporters.
Through dance, physical theatre and immersive design, we journey deep into the promise of spring. Interiors are revealed; the wishful linings of pockets, secrets stained on petticoats, histories and landscapes tattooed on the heart. Our hopes, expectations, and choices. Our rights and dreams. Rite of Spring is a grand procession: audience and performers traveling together. On a journey with friends, strangers and neighbors, we move at the same pace and in the same rhythm. We feel geography and celebrate moving and being moved.
Development Showing:
Ten Days on the Island RAWspace 2015, Undercover Artists Festival, Brisbane
Premiere: Salamanca MOVES 2016
Produced by Second Echo Ensemble in association with Tasmanian Theatre Company and Salamanca MOVES
Director: Kelly Drummond Cawthon
Design Team: Nick Higgins, Hanna Parsinnen, Roz Wren
Musical Director: Michael Fortescue
Performance: Luke Campbell, Aidan Chick, Alma Faludi, Rodrigo Diaz-Icasuriaga, Zeb Direen, Rob Flehr, Bryony Geeves, David Montgomery, Alexandra Morris-Baguley, Bridget Nicklason-King, Elise Romaszko, Charlie Smith, William Webster.
Contested Land is conceived and directed by Charlie Smith. A founding member of SEE, Charlie is working with ideas that are both quietly political and socially evocative. Investigating the history of nations, conflicts both embodied and landscaped, and lines drawn in the sand, Contested Land explores our sense of connection and what it means to us to take, give, share and fight over our contested lands.
Development Showings: Dancehouse Room to Move 2016 , Melbourne, Ten Days on the Island RAWspace 2017, You Are Here Festival, Canberra 2017
Presented by Moonah MOVES and Second Echo Ensemble in association with Tasmanian Theatre Company.
Director: Charlie Smith
Creative Producer: Kelly Drummond Cawthon
Performance: Second Echo Ensemble with Joshua Langford
Musical Directors: Matthew Fargher and Michael Fortescue
Original Recorded Music Works by: Rhys Gray and Thomas Misson, commissioned and recorded for Contested Land by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Gregory Stephens.
Design: Roz Wren
By My Hand is an immersive physical theatre work set within a rigorously defined structural lattice of rope and rock. It is a kinesthetic and sensory exploration of how we are caught up and held in place by our perceptions, our beliefs, and our rigidly held constructs of authority.
That which constrains us, defines us. That which contains us, releases us.
Premiere: DARK MOFO 2018
Tour to Lonely in the Rain Festival 2018, Finland
Choreographer: Luke Campbell Creative Producer: Kelly Drummond Cawthon
Music Direction: Matthew Fargher Performance: Luke Campbell, Kelly Drummond Cawthon, Alma Faludi, Matthew Fargher, Michael Fortescue, Jusso Pakarinen, William Webster, Anna Maria Vaisanen, Bella Young
Visual Installation: Garth Knight
Costume Design: Roz Wren
Production Manager/Lighting Design: Sam Cole
Produced by Dark MOFO and SEE
Producing Partner: Tasmanian Theatre Company
Supported by City of Hobart, Creative Hobart, kdcWORKS, Dark MOFO, Match Creative Partnerships Australia, Arts Tasmania and SEE supporters.
Breathing it is life and it gives us birth. Listen to the water. The volume. The sound flowing and falling. Listen. To the water. Flowing. Falling. Falling flowing. Surrender.
Accepting death and life and death
-Luke John Campbell-
THE CHAIN is an installation based performance that will be created in 2020 in Collaboration with Constance Ari.
Contested Land is conceived and directed by Charlie Smith. A founding member of SEE, Charlie is working with ideas that are both quietly political and socially evocative.
CONTESTED LAND premiered in 2017 and will be remounted in 2020.
That which constrains us, defines us. That which contains us, releases us.
Directed by Luke John Campbell, BY MY HAND premiered at DARK MOFO and toured to Finland in 2018.
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