Paula White & Narelle Benjamin Cella and metamorphose over time, bearing insight to ABOUT THE ARTIST the physiological world we inhabit and natural Narelle Benjamin symmetry that surrounds us. Narelle is a Sydney based artist, whom has Touring Team & Roles danced and choreographed with many Australian 2 Performers companies and independent artists over the 1 Lighting Designer/Operator years. Load in / out crew needed Narelle was the recipient of the 3 day Bump In Set and LX Council Dance Fellowship for 2014-2015, with ½ day Bump Out her somatic research as part of this fellowship creatively informing the making of Cella. Patron notification / warnings Haze In 2010 Narelle premiered In Glass at Sydney Opera House for Spring Dance Festival, then Dance Massive 2011. In Glass was awarded the 2011 Australian Dance Award for Outstanding FULL CREDITS Achievement in Independent Dance. Choreography/Performers: Narelle Benjamin, Paul White Narelle presented Hiding in Plain Sight Concept: Narelle Benjamin at Performance Space, Carriageworks in Composer: Huey Benjamin with additional music 2014, winning Outstanding Achievement in from The Necks and Colleen Choreography, 2015 . Lighting Design: Karen Norris Costumes: Justine Shih Person Paul White Producer: Jen Leys Paul is one of Australia’s most highly regarded and awarded dance artists. His career as TECHNICAL a performer and artistic collaborator has SPECIFICATIONS included working with some of the artform’s most renowned companies and directors such as Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, Meryl STAGING REQUIREMENTS Tankard, (DV8 Physical Theatre), Black tarkett, high gloss if possible Tanja Liedtke, and Garry Stewart (Australian Black box, intimate theatre performance space Dance Theatre). Lighting requirements 10 x booms at 2.5 height, 10 x profiles rigged at ABOUT CELA 4m - could be on droppers off the bars 5 x profile on each boom Duration: 65 minutes 2 x MLX - MAC Viper Performance 2 x MLX - MAC WASH Description of the work 1 x Haze Machine The cell (from Latin cella, meaning “small room”) Please refer to lighting plan, provided upon is the basic structural, functional and biological request unit of all known living organisms. Cells are the smallest unit of life that can replicate Sound requirements independently, and are often called the “building Stereo AIIF file blocks of life”. Staging Our constant emphasis on individuality and Set is black wood rostra 1.6m x 1.6m with stairs the ‘self’ ignores the beauty of our similarities. attached on prompt side, both on castors. The most complex patterns imaginable in our 1 x 12m black curtain hung upstage biological systems can be found repeated in 5 x 6m hard flats to hide the booms all of us. Beyond form, this evolutionary new dance work Cella by Narelle Benjamin and Paul White, tells the tale of endless cycles and systems within systems. We see them recreate PERFORMANCE HISTORY Performing Lines. Premiered in co-production with COLOURS Image by Pippa Samaya International Dance Festival 2017 at Theaterhaus , . Carriageworks, Sydney Festival 2018 CONTACT DETAILS Meat Market, Dance Massive 2019 Producer: Jen Leys Email: [email protected] SEE/READ MORE Mobile: +61 432 750 668 Images by photographer Pippa Samaya: Narelle Benjamin https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kl375iy4yz1ix11/ Email: [email protected] AAAKojshpXBOZolPeD6rloGRa?dl=0 Mobile: +61 432 554 482‬ https://vimeo.com/292651441 One min edit of Cella. https://vimeo.com/292555450 10 min edit of Cella. Footage from COLOURS Stuttgart and Sydney Festival seasons. https://vimeo.com/180314569 Footage from first development showing at Pina Bausch Studios 2016, shot by Pippa Samaya. http://dancemagazine.com.au/2018/01/at- sydney-festival-cella-looks-at-wonder-of-the- human-body/ Review from Sydney Festival season.

Articles: http://dancemagazine.com.au/2018/01/in- conversation-with-narelle-benjamin-sydney- festival-and-cella/ http://www.danceaustralia.com.au/artists/sneak- peek-being-the-benjamins

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Research development supported by Narelle Benjamin’s Australia Council Dance Fellowship 2014/15.

Creative development supported by Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch and the New South Wales Government of Australia through Create NSW.

Original premiere supported by the Tanja Liedtke Foundation and co-produced with COLOURS International Dance Festival.

Australian premiere at Carriageworks for Sydney Festival 2018. Dance Massive 2019 supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body; the City of Melbourne through Arts House; and