NOT IN A MILLION YEARS FORCE MAJEURE ARTS HOUSE SAT 26 – SUN 27 NORth MELBOURNE MARCH TOWN haLL DIRECTOr’S NOTE To date we, as a company of collaborating experienced the seemingly ‘unbelievable’. Ultimately, do we seek a collective artists, have delved into the ordinary Fascinations such as these, along with connection through the extreme and everyday to source our performance our tendency to elevate the survivor to experiences of others and are we material. In this instance we have been celebrity status, have inspired Not In A somehow elevated beyond the strictures drawn to the epic and extreme that has Million Years. of our individual plights when the seemingly impossible is made possible? primarily taken place unexpectedly within Do events such as these make us question an ordinary life. our own abilities to cope and endure. Are Image: Stu Spence As most of us live fairly predictable lives, we inspired, or rendered inferior, by such we have a fascination with people who ‘once in a lifetime’ experiences? have cheated death or those who have THE TEAM Composer/Sound Designer - Max films have screened at festivals worldwide Lyandvert is a composer, sound designer including Interfilm B( erlin), Flickerfest Director: Kate Champion and director. Max won the 2005 Helpmann (Sydney) and the Sci-Fi Film Festival Assistant Director: Roz Hervey Award for Journal of a Plague Year, (London). Joshua has worked extensively Designer: Geoff Cobham was nominated for a Helpmann and Sydney in dance theatre as both an actor and Composer and Sound Designer: Theatre Critics Award for Julius Caesar dramaturg, most notably as dramaturg Max Lyandvert and a Sydney Theatre Critics Award for Tanja Liedtke on her two major works Audio Visual Producer: Tony Melov for The Lost Echo. Max has worked with the Twelth Floor (in which he also performed) Performers: Vincent Crowley, STC, Company B, State Theatre Company and Construct. Alice Hinde, Elizabeth Ryan, Joshua Tyler of South Australia, Malthouse Theatre, Production Management & Operation: ICA, QTC, Legs on the Wall, Hothouse Bluebottle Theatre and Griffin Theatre Company. Stage Manager: Erin Daly This year Max has been the composer and FORCE maJEURE Material Devised by the Company sound Designer for the STC productions of To receive regular updates on Force Oresteia, Long Day’s Journey Into The Night Majeure and our forthcoming productions and True West. and workshops, sign up for our BIOGRAPHIES newsletter at www.forcemajeure.com.au. You can also follow us on Facebook at Director - Kate Champion has worked PERFORMERS www.facebook.com/forcemajeureaustralia. as director, choreographer, dancer and teacher for various companies including Vincent Crowley has been a member of the The Australian Dance Theatre, Belvoir ensembles of Meryl Tankard’s Australian Street Theatre, Legs on the Wall, Dance Dance Theatre and TanzTheater Basel ARTS HOUSE North, English National Opera and the under the direction of Joachim Schloemer. 521 Queensberry Street UK’s DV8 Physical Theatre. She has As a freelance performer he has worked North Melbourne VIC 3051 also created, performed and toured two with Theater Basel, Schauspielhaus Koeln, www.artshouse.com.au critically acclaimed solo shows - Face Salzburger Festspiel, Steirischer Herbst, [email protected] Value and About Face. As Artistic Director Fischhouse Productions in San Francisco, Tel: 03 9322 3719 of Force Majeure, Kate has directed Same, the Adelaide Festival Centre Trust same But Different, Tenebrae - Part 1 and 2, (director Ross Ganf), Spike Jonze, Chunky Arts House is a City of Melbourne Already Elsewhere, the film series Move, Ladykillers and Force Majeure. As contemporary arts initiative. Each year The Sense Of It and The Age I’m In. Kate a co-founder of Splintergroup, Vince has Arts House presents a curated program of is also the choreographer of the original created the works Lawn, and Underneath. contemporary art featuring performances, stage production of Dirty Dancing. In 2010 In 2007 he directed Today in The Lumina exhibitions, live art, installations and Kate choreographed Spring Awakening Room for Schauspielhaus Koeln. cultural events. for Sydney Theatre Company and Bliss Arts House operates as a multi- for Opera Australia. Kate has been Alice Hinde is a performer and choreographer. As a resident artist dimensional resource hub for artists: awarded Helpmann, Green Room and producing, programming, devising, Australian Dance Awards along with with Dancenorth, she performed with Gavin Webber Gravity Feed, Nightcafe, supporting and funding. Work is presented the Robert Helpmann Scholarship for across two sites: Arts House, North Choreographic Excellence. Underground, Remember Me, Meryl Tankard Suelle, Antony Hamilton Sleeping Melbourne Town Hall and Arts House, Assistant Director - Roz Hervey is a End, Ross McCormack Nowhere Fast, Meat Market. dance graduate of the Centre for Jo Stone and Paulo Castro Disintegration, Arts House values arts and culture that Performing Arts. Over the last 23 years and co-choreographed and performed help create a world where people are she has worked for numerous dance in This You Made Of Me. As a freelance actively engaged, aware and empowered and dance theatre companies including; performer she has worked with Gavin to participate, politically and culturally, One Extra Company, Sydney Front, Dance Webber Legless and Rockshow, Sarah- to make positive change. North, Theatre of Image, Sue Healey, Jayne Howard Breath for Me, and Stalker Meryl Tankard Co, DV8 and Force Majeure. Theatre Company Shanghai Lady Killer. In 2002 she won the Australian Dance Alice choreographed Extraordinary Award for Outstanding Performance Confessions for the graduating students by a Female Dancer for her performance of QUT. in Force Majeure’s Same, same But Different. She has taught physical theatre Elizabeth Ryan is a choreographer, for numerous performing arts colleges performer and a founding member of The and youth theatre companies. Fondue Set with whom she has created six full-length works and numerous short Designer - Geoff Cobham has worked works and events. The Fondue Set have as a Production Manager, Lighting toured their work to the UK, Europe and Designer, Set Designer, Event Producer Japan. Their latest work, the Green Room and Venue Designer. His recent Set & Award-winning No Success Like Failure, Lighting designs include The Age I’m was created in collaboration with UK In, Already Elsewhere, Same, same But choreographer/director Wendy Houstoun, Different (Force Majeure), Construct and premiered at the Sydney Opera House (Tanja Liedtke), La Voix & Bastien Bastiena in 2008. Elizabeth has also performed (State Opera), HELD (ADT), The Caretaker with version 1.0 and with Dean Walsh. She (Brink). His lighting designs include Wizard recently created and performed the solo of Oz (Windmill), G (ADT), Metro Street, Aunt Hilda’s Brass Razoo commissioned by Attempts On Her Life, Night Letters, The Goat The Campelltown Arts Centre. (State Theatre Company of SA), Dinosaurs (Australian Museum), Anzac Hall Joshua Tyler has been a working actor, (National War Memorial). writer, screenwriter and dramaturg for over eight years. He has been awarded the Jill Blewitt Playwrights Award at the 2002 Australian Writers Festival and the AFTRS NSW FTO screenwriting award. His short .