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6926 Ozco Youth Arts A guide to Australian performance for young people In Repertoire <www.ozarts.com.au> 2 3 performance Dear reader This guide introduces you to a range of contemporary performances from around Australia for young audiences. These works are available for international touring. You can find out much more about the works, artists and companies at Ozarts Online (<www.ozarts.com.au>), the Australia Council’s website promoting the works of Australian artists. The overview essay on pages 21–22 provides an accessible introduction to the recent history and context of performance for young people in Australia. DANCE puppetry The Editors Editors Keith Gallasch, Virginia Baxter music theatre Assistant Editor Dan Edwards Design Peter Thorn Design Cover photographs Left Arena Theatre Company, Gamegirl, photo Jeff Busby graphic design Peter Brundle circus Top right Linsey Pollak, Making Jam, photo Jessica Ainsworth Introduction Bottom right Patch Theatre Company, Sharon, Keep Ya Hair On!, photo Amy Dowd From a very young age, Australians are blessed with the opportunity to engage with creativity through the richness and diversity of Australian Produced by RealTime for the Australia Council the Australian Government’s arts performance for young people. Our younger citizens enjoy a wide range of funding and advisory body superlative performance, including many works designed specifically for them from early childhood years through to adolescence and later as young Published by the Australia Council for the Arts adults. This guide is about works created by adult artists for and with young 372 Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills people that are available for international touring. Sydney NSW 2010 Australia PO Box 788 In Australia, contemporary performance for adult audiences takes many Strawberry Hills NSW 2012 forms and traverses many genres, from plays to physical theatre and circus Tel +61 2 9215 9000 works, to music theatre, puppetry and multimedia events. This is no less the Toll free +61 1800 226 912 case with the range of performance options for young people. Some of Fax +61 2 9215 9111 Australia’s leading artists offer the very best in traditional skills and the latest [email protected] innovations in performance practice. Young audiences are being presented www.ozco.gov.au with works that both entertain and stimulate. RealTime Film, video and digital animation, for example, have been expertly PO Box A2246 introduced into stage works for young people, reflecting the technological Sydney South NSW 1235 media-world in which they live. Exciting forays into digital animation build on +61 2 9283 2723 fax +61 2 9283 2724 a rich history and culture of puppetry realised in many different forms across [email protected] the continent. Performances for young people explore the classic themes of www.realtimearts.net childhood and adolescence, addressing themes of self and transformation, responsibility and conflict, but also introduce contemporary global issues of © Commonwealth of Australia 2004 environment, technology, race, gender, the body and cultural identity with This work is copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by due seriousness, good humour and theatrical inventiveness. Above all, the any process without prior written permission from the Commonwealth available from the Australia Council for the Arts. works in this book encourage a love of performance for its own sake as well Requests and inquiries concerning reproduction and rights should be addressed to the Managing Editor, Australia as introducing various ways of seeing and being in the world. Council, PO Box 788 Strawberry Hills NSW 2012 Australia or to <[email protected]>. Every reasonable effort has A large number of the artists and companies in this guide have performed been made to contact copyright owners of materials reproduced in this publication. The Australia Council welcomes multi-media communication from any copyright owner from whom permission was inadvertently not obtained. internationally, on tour or at festivals for young people. The works they have created are specific to Australia, which is what makes them so attractive, but they also reach out, to engage audiences beyond our shores. In repertoire : a guide to Australian performance for young people. physical theatre Bibliography Australia is a culturally and geographically diverse nation, and so too are the works in this book – they represent the very best of Australian performance, ISBN 1 920784 19 5. as well as tackling issues that all young people face and experience as maturing adults. This is what makes Australian performance for young 1. Performing arts – Australia. 2. Entertainers – Australia. 3. Theater – Australia. people ideal for an international audience. I. Gallasch, Keith. II. Baxter, Virginia. III Edwards, Dan. IV. Australia Council. (Series : In repertoire). Much more detail about the works, artists and companies you’ll encounter on these pages can be found at OzArts Online (<www.ozarts.com.au>), 790.20994 the Australia Council’s website promoting contemporary Australian culture internationally, with a focus on events and activities being presented This publication is available online at <www.ozco.gov.au> overseas. The site includes specifications for touring as well as contact details. In Repertoire celebrates the riches of performance available to young Australian audiences and, now, their peers around the world. Jennifer Bott Chief Executive Officer Australia Council <www.ozarts.com.au> 4 5 Kite Theatre Patch Theatre Company Binni’s Backyard Sharon, Keep Ya Hair On! Hats off to a Huge Binni is a five-year-old girl caught The line between performers and up with telly, toys, fast food and audience is dissolved in this funky, Hit...stunning musical computer games. Forced to turn off funny, wild and wacky trilogy of her TV, Binni packs her bag, takes stories about adapting to change. talent and the tales of a her Teddy and runs away – to her Presented as a rock concert own backyard. Musically and narrative set on floating stages, visually rich, Binni’s Backyard is a Sharon, Keep Ya Hair On! features top children’s writer celebration of Indigenous and non- a mix of interactivity, children’s art, indigenous story-telling and of structured play, live music, songs [Gillian Rubinstein]...what connection to the land. and video projection. The audience 60 minutes, 5 performers becomes part of the performance a dazzling show it is! just as they would in a live studio Kite Theatre is Education television broadcast. Queensland’s early childhood 50 minutes, 5 performers The Advertiser theatre-in-education company, providing innovative shows for Adelaide-based Patch Theatre school children and families for Company has presented works at nearly 30 years. Music, comedy the Sydney Opera House, the and strong visuals are vital Victorian Arts Centre and nine components of the company’s international children’s theatre work, encouraging young festivals in the USA, Canada, audiences to explore ideas. Korea, Japan and Singapore. The Whether performing in schools or company’s repertoire has been public venues, Kite provides carefully crafted over many years by stimulating and relevant theatre. artists dedicated to developing inventive theatre for children. From the moment [the actors] leapt on stage, the cast of Binni’s Backyard had their young audience – and their older carers – entranced. Courier Mail Terrapin Puppet Theatre My Sister is an Alien What happens when your sister gets squashed to the size of a strawberry, caught up in your favourite yo-yo and thrown into outer space? How does the man in the moon travel around the galaxy? ...adventure follows From the irreverent and enormously popular novel My Sister’s an Alien, adventure but there’s Terrapin has created a high-paced, humorous puppet theatre work, challenging and entertaining still time for an children 5–12 years. 55 minutes, 2 performers exploration of family Terrapin creates innovative relationships from a contemporary puppet-based theatre productions for families and adult audiences. The company kid’s eye view. tours nationally and internationally and offers workshops, master The Mercury classes and other training opportunities as well as entertainment for festivals, conferences and community events. ...a tight show with an almost Olympian juggling of puppets, worlds and costume changes by performers. Lowdown <www.ozarts.com.au> 6 7 Linsey Pollak Snuff Puppets & Acrobat Making Jam Circus Olé Linsey Pollak at his wildest and Featuring The Big Elephant, most musically inventive. Hear Ferocious Wild Animals, Performing bagpipes made from rubber gloves Dogs, The Parade of Cows and the and flutes, panpipes and clarinets fabulous Farelli Family’s astounding made from garden hoses. Hear aerobatic feats, Circus Olé is circus music made with dental floss, in the time-honoured tradition. carrots, satay sticks, a music stand Combining the magical creations of and a camping stool. Snuff Puppets and the physical 45–60 minutes, 1 performer virtuosity of Acrobat, it’s more fun than you’ve ever had! Performer, musical director, 60 minutes, 12 performers instrument maker/inventor and composer Linsey Pollak is acclaimed Since 1992 Snuff Puppets have for playing instruments he has made been delighting, disgusting from all manner of found objects. horrifying, challenging and His first solo show, Bang it with a entertaining crowds around the Fork, and the acclaimed children’s world. Their performances combine show Out of the Frying Pan, have giant puppets, spectacular visuals, led Pollak to develop a series of solo live music and physical theatre shows which include exciting work indoors and out. The award with digital technology. His music winning Acrobat is committed to theatre performances have toured traditional circus skills performed the world. with bravery, precision and experimentation. Both companies Linsey Pollak is one of Australia’s most brilliant... have toured internationally. [Snuff Puppets’ Scarey] is altogether the most bizarrely composer/ musicians. He is wildly innovative in the entertaining evening I’ve ever spent in the theatre.
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