Past Projects - sound for dance & performance
2008
Martin del Amo: It's a Jungle Out there
Creative developments
Rex Cramphorn Studio, March 2008
Studio 1 UNSW, July 2008
Due for production: June 2009
Karen Therese: Riot Act
Creative development
Campbelltown Art Centre, March 2008
Due for production: June 2009
Nalina Wait with Jane McKernan: Dual
Live Works festival, Performance Space
September 5-7, 2008
2007
Deborah Pollard - Blue Print
Performance Space @ CarriageWorks
October 26 - November 4
On January 18 2003 a firestorm engulfed Canberra and an elderly couple fled their home with only the clothes they were wearing and three photo albums. This was my family home.
Blue Print is a performance work that captures the humour and bewilderment of a family whose world lurched from the ordinary to the unimaginable in an afternoon. Exploring the way we greive, Deborah Pollard reflects on the loss of her family home - an intensely personal experience, and one that is becoming more and more familiar each summer.
DEVISOR/PERFORMER Deborah Pollard PERFORMERS David Buckley, Daniel Fenech & Louis Fitzpatrick DRAMATURG John Baylis MULTIMEDIA & SPACE DESIGN Sam James OBJECT DESIGN Erth SOUND Gail Priest
Version 1.0
Deeply offensive and Utterly Untrue
Performance Space @ CarriageWorks
August 25 - September 8
$290 million in bribes was paid to the regime of an evil dictator on the eve of war. Why? Government ministers and Australian Wheat Board executives all struggled to remember exactly what went on, but no one's too sure.
The 8,500 pages of transcript of the Cole Inquiry into the 'wheat-for-weapons' scandal have been transformed into provocative and entertaining theatre by version 1.0, the team behind the acclaimed The Wages of Spin.
It's time to kickback the kickbacks.
ARTISTS Sean Bacon, Paul Dwyer, Stephen Klinder, Jane Phegan, Gail Priest, Christopher Ryan, Yana Taylor, Kym Vercoe & David Williams
Dual
Performance Space & Io Myers, UNSW
May -July 2007
Gail Priest will work with Nalina Wait and Jane McKernan developing a dance work for production in 2008.
Critical Path Residency - Nalina Wait
Critical Path, Drill Hall
June 18-July 1, 2007
Gail Priest will work with Nalina Wait and Jane McKernan on site-specific sound and dance installation.
Martin del Amon's Never been this far away from home
Performance Space @ CarriageWorks
March 7-17, 2007
In his new solo show, choreographer/performer Martin del Amo embarks on a journey that charts his fascination with the unknown. Darkly funny and often surreal, del Amo conjures a world in which the exhilaration of leaving behind the familiar is contrasted with the uncertain yet tantalizing prospect of the new.
With live sound score by Gail Priest
2006
Version 1.0
Wages of Spin - Mobile States National Tour
touring to Performance Space, Brisbane Powerhouse, Melbourne Artshouse, Salamanca Arts Centre, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art
August - September 2006
With their trademark biting irony, version 1.0 perform a blood-and-guts post mortem on the ‘sexing up’ of the case for war on Iraq, and what it means for our democracy. The Wages of Spin takes you into a live TV studio, with the performers re-voicing key players from the Prime Minister to feral columnists, while a vision switcher calls the shots, floor crew wheel backdrops, props and interview talent on and off on cue, and live cameras transform and multiply every image to saturation point.
Performer/devisors: Stephen Klinder, Kym Vercoe & David Williams
Dramaturgy: Paul Dwyer Outside Eye: Yana Taylor Lighting/Production: Simon Wise
Video: Sean Bacon Sound: Gail Priest
Mixed Double
Performance Space
July 20-22, 2006
Martin del Amo's Can't Hardly Breathe
It's late at night, I cannot breathe. I don't know if I want to…
A darkly humorous exploration of the relationship between obsession and trauma.
Choreographer & Perfomer Martin del Amo
Live sound by Gail Priest
Access All Areas
Performer Rosie Dennis
2005
Critical Path Residency - Martin del Amo
September 2005
Continuning their collaborative relationship,dancer Martin del Amo will work with sound artist Gail Priest exploring ways to incorporate text into choreographic work.
As part of Critical Path Responsive Program
Y.Smith
Performance Space
July 18 - August 7, 2005
A space for thinking, improvising, constructing, testing, discussing, discarding, repeating, layering, distilling.
Y. Smith is part two of the Sleeplessness trilogy. It uncovers the dark history of Australia’s “forgotten children” who grew up in institutional care. Using installation, storytelling and visual media, Y. Smith explores the collision between trauma and memory. The artists will attempt to create an intimate journey through the lost identity of Yvonne Smith.
COLLABORATORS Karen Therese, Sean Bacon, Margie Medlin, Chris Ryan, Francesca Smith and Gail Priest
Version 1.0
The Wages of Spin
Performance Space
May 20 - June 5 2005,
Last year version 1.0 went overboard with CMI. Now they return with their most ambitious work yet, exploring freedom, democracy & the War on Iraq.
"It's hard to sustain irony in the face of recent world events but version 1.0 manages it. This is a great show: witty, clever, lively and provocative. It opens with a blindfolded man negotiating a bed of nails, actually dancgerous... version 1.0 is doing a new type of political thatre that is based in serious research but is also mocking, subversive and fun." (John McCallum, The Australian 23/5/05)
Does it matter that we went to war on a lie? Will the good that has come of the war outweigh the wrongs done in our name? When our boys come home from Iraq, will they recognise the new militarised Australia?
This is the territory reconnoitred in The Wages of Spin, a new performance from the company behind CMI, last year’s smash hit based on the “Children Overboard” Inquiry. With sources including public inquiries and other artefacts from the recent war (and its electoral aftermath), it’s part documentary, part civic archaeology, and part frenzied media circus – political theatre for the 21st century.
PERFORMERS & DEVISORS: Stephen Klinder, Deborah Pollard & David Williams DRAMATURGY: Paul Dwyer OUTSIDE EYE: Yana Taylor LIGHTING & PRODUCTION: Simon Wise VIDEO ARTIST: Sean Bacon SOUND ARTIST: Gail Priest PRODUCER: Harley Stumm
Martin del Amo's
Under Attack
Performance Space
Feb 23 - Mach 16
The body as a battleground. Aggressive forces clash with each other, ready to destroy and undermine the fragility of the human body.
CHOREOGRAPHER/PERFORMER Martin del Amo
SOUND Gail Priest
Breathing Space UK tour
Under Attack also toured the UK in Feb 2006 as part of the Breathing Space initiative including performances at Inbetween Time Festival, Arnolfini, Bristol; The Green Room, Manchester; Tramway, Glasgow
Constellations
PACT - New Mardi Gras Festival
February 23 - March 6
PACT Theatre became a constellation of signs and symbols, a sparkling assemblage of young performers/writers navigating the complex terrain of sexuality and cultural difference. Working with artist/director Karen Therese, the team of 7 used autobiographical material in their investigations of taboos around sexuality and cultural heritage, colliding worlds.
Performers/Writers: Alexis Armytage, Kath Bicknell, Ghassan Kassisieh, Sarah Jane Norman, Tatea Reilly, Nathaniel Scotcher, Carrie So
Director: Karen Therese
Dramaturg: Chris Murphy
Video & Installation: Sean Bacon
Sound Composition: Gail Priest
Design Assistant: Tatea Reilly
Technical Assistance: Tim Dennis, Lara Thoms, Shane Stevens
2004
Frumpus' Crazed
Performance Space
August 18 - 29, 2004
Using spine-chilling grotesquery, mysterious comedy and lumpy red track suits, Crazed tackles the notion of the cinematic female victim as Frumpus are haunted and hunted in an alternate universe on the dark side.
Enter a surreal world of funny, sexy and irreverent theatre, as five plucky heroines are tortured and terrified in their clean white nighties.
FRUMPUS
Janine Garrier, Laurie Kilfoyle, Sue Kyle, Lenny Ann Low, Cheryle Moore, Julie Vulcan
DIRECTOR
Cheryle Moore
SET & VIDEO DESIGNER
Sam James
SOUND
Gail Priest, Cheryle Moore
LIGHT DESIGN
Clytie Smith
ARTISTIC CONSULTANTS
Kate Kantor & Chris Ryan
Martin del Amo's Unsealed
Performance Space & Perth International Arts Centre
April 15 - 25, 2004
& interstate tour November 2004
Departing limbs and talking skins, the sound of ripping paper…
After a successful season earlier this year, ex- Berliner Martin del Amo returns to Performance Space for three nights in Unsealed. Exploring the concept of “losing it”, Unsealed is dance and spoken word that playfully jumpcuts between literal and metaphoric states of desire and deterioration.
CHOREOGRAPHER/PERFORMER Martin del AmoSOUND DESIGN AND LIVE IMPROVISATION Gail Priest
Breathing Space is an initiative of Arnolfini, Bristol (UK), Performance Space, Sydney and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts. Breathing Space has been made possible through the support of the British Council.
Song of Ghosts
PACT
April 15 - 25, 2004
The team of artists investigated the exquisite imagery and language of Homer's The Iliad and the visual and aural ‘poetics of war' of more recent times, to create a frictional landscape. Text - spoken, intoned and sung - physical invasions and war cries, a quartet of saxophonists and 20 performers occupied the PACT space.
Performers: Daniel Burckhardt, Tracy Collings, Zoe Coombs Marr, Ashley Dyer, Adam Fraser, Mish Grigor, Andrew Johnston, Sally Lewry, Keith Lim, Tess McGowan, Blair Milan, Alice Osborne, Teik Kim Pok, Matthew Prest, Georgie Read, Natalie Rose, Gavin Sladen, Hila Sukkar, Morgan Watt
Musicians: Nexas Quartet - Jay Byrnes, Ben Carey, Nathan Henshaw, Andrew Smith
Artists: Regina Heilmann, Chris Murphy, Lee Wilson, Bryoni Trezise, Margery Smith, Gail Priest, Kate Shanahan, Shane Stevens, Jessie Deane, Heidrun Lohr, Sam James
2003
Altered States
PACT Youth Theatre and Backbone Youth Arts, Brisbane presented at Visy Theatre, Brisbane Powerhouse.
March 2003
'Altered States' used a number of artforms: new writing, ensemble performance, sound design, video design and performance-installation to explore notions of identity arising out of sense of place (Sydney and Brisbane)
Collaborators
Direction >>Regina Heilmann, Brendan Ross
Original Concept >> Caitlin Newton Broad, Lana Gishkariany
Video Design >> Sam James
Sound Design >>Gail Priest, Lawrence English
Costume Design >>Kate Shanahan
Lighting Design >> Christine Akers
Writing Facilitators >> Mireille Juchau, Maryanne Steward
Production Manager >> Chris Philippi
Graphic Design >> Jules Rebeir