Forest Collective is delighted to announce that Labyrinth has been nominated for Work of the Year: Dramatic at the 2025 #ArtMusicAwards!
The annual Art Music Awards are presented by @apraamcos in conjunction with the @ausmusiccentre (AMC) to recognise achievement in the composition, performance, education, and presentation of #Australianmusic.
Art Music covers activity across contemporary classical music, contemporary jazz, improvised music, experimental music, and sound art.
We'd like to congratulate composer @evanjlawson , librettist and tenor @danielszesiongtodd , director @cathyjhunt , choreographer and dancer @goforash , lighting designer @gabe_bethune , costume designer @janetnoonan and the full team of artists who worked on this production for such a huge achievement - @teresaingrilli (Ariadne), @girlwhateverrrr (Daedalus), Danaë Killian (the Minotaur, piano solosit), @charlottehmacarthur (dancer), @pliedpiper (flutes) and @codecomposer (viola).
The awards will be held on Thursday 21 August at City Recital Hall, Sydney.
Labyrinth was first performed at @abbotsfordconvent as part of @midsummafestival
Image by @piajohnsonphotography
Our brand new production of #LABYRINTH opened to a sold out performance at @abbotsfordconvent last night. Be sure to join us for performances tonight, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
For tickets and further information follow the link in our bio.
Photo by @piajohnsonphotography featuring @goforash and @charlottehmacarthur . Costumes by @janetnoonan
Joining us as choreographer and dancer for #LABYRINTH is Ash Dougan.
@goforash is a dancer and choreographer based in Naarm, Australia. Having completed his BFA (Dance) at the Victorian College of the Arts, and undertaking supplemental study at the CND in Paris, he is now focusing on his personal body of work.
With a strong classical and contemporary background, and experience in physical theatre and aerial choreography, he has worked with choreographers such as Adam Wheeler, Kate Denborough, and Stuart Shugg. Ashley has performed at Darwin Festival, Melbourne Festival and Sydney Festival, and has been involved with shows in both Melbourne and Sydney Fringe Festivals. He has also worked with Tracks Dance Company, Stalker Theatre, Opera Australia. He choreographed and performed in Forest Collective's sold-out ballet-opera Orpheus, and most recently presented his full-length work Seeing Red. Amongst this, he maintains a keen interest in youth dance and dance on film.
#Dance #ForestCollective #NewMusic #Opera
Curated by Forest Collective’s Kim Tan, Folding explores modern subjectivity and the inexorable relationship creativity has with the past. This entanglement is a metaphor for Kim’s own creativity and the expression it finds within her body. Folding is layered with musings on the dialectic between past and present, which find voice through early and new music, period instruments and contemporary dance.
The centrepiece is a new commission for baroque flute and percussion by Evan J Lawson, which reimagines period instruments beyond their historical context, giving them contemporary expression through New Music.
Folding will reach back in time to return the staid form of the ‘Baroque dance suite’ to its historical origins in movement and the body, and will be given visceral modern expression through the haunting choreography of Ashley Dougan. This tension between stasis and fluidity will be further explored through interwoven improvisatory works, with drone, based on excerpts from Jordi Savall’s Lachrimae Caravaggio.
Date & Time:
Friday 18 October 7.30pm
Venue:
Eleventh Hour Theatre
170 Leicester St, Fitzroy VIC 3065
Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country
Located roughly 50m from corner of Leicester and Gore Streets
Tickets & further details:
$30-$35
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