Glass / Heels, 2025
Photographic documentation by @valeriejoy.jpeg
Developed across multiple presentations in 2025, this work continues to evolve through repetition, risk, and embodied decision-making.
Each iteration sharpens the relationship between body, material, and time - allowing clarity to emerge through sustained exposure rather than resolution.
Glass / Heels, 2025
Performance presented at @machinehall with @aether_tiess .
A body-based investigation into instability, endurance, and control, navigating two buckets of broken.
The work holds the body in a continuous negotiation between opposing forces - fragility and force, precision and risk.
Performance concept and choreography: Skye Gellmann.
Documentation: @sebkayser
We’ve been associating with artist Skye Gellmann for some time and this year it's official:
Branch Nebula’s 2026 Associate Artist Skye Gellmann.
Skye is an artist and creator working across performance, photography and the moving image. They're a two-time Greenroom Award winner making bold, experimental work.
Branch Nebula is proud to be sharing resources and expertise, as well as collaborating with Skye. 🖤
How Not To Climb A Mountain was a full-body, full-volume adventure.
Huge thanks to @branch_nebula for bringing the chaos, risk and brilliance to Borderville Theatre.
We love supporting visiting artists bringing bold, unexpected work to our space - and to everyone who came along, thank you for being part of it.
What was your favourite moment? 👀
#physicaltheatre #circus
Aerial Plank began as an exploration of brutalism and movement.
A body negotiating a single architectural element.
No flourish. No escape from gravity. The apparatus does not ask to be performed. It asks to be endured. Friction shapes what remains.
THIS FRIDAY: How Not to Climb a Mountain celebrates the art of instability - acrobats wrestling dollies, instruments pushed past their limits and a soundscape built from pure, unpredictable action.
Book your tickets via the link in our bio.
📍Borderville Theatre, Flying Fruit Fly Circus
13 March, 7pm
Book now | Link in bio
@fruitflycircus@leethalz@mirabellekes@skyegellmann
Cardboard cliffs. Human skin. Power tools meeting guitars.
How Not to Climb a Mountain is a full‑body, full‑volume adventure in creative problem‑making and problem‑solving.
It’s messy, bold and unexpectedly hilarious.
Book your tickets via the link in our bio.
📍Borderville Theatre, Flying Fruit Fly Circus
13 March, 7pm
Book now | Link in bio
@fruitflycircus@leethalz@mirabellekes@skyegellmann
What happens when highly trained acrobats strap stage dollies to their bodies and call it “mountaineering”?
How Not to Climb a Mountain is physical theatre at its most joyfully unpolished – guitars are misused, cliffs are created with cardboard and bodies are pushed to failure.
One night only - book now via the link in our bio.
📍Borderville Theatre, Flying Fruit Fly Circus
13 March, 7pm
Book now | Link in bio
@fruitflycircus@leethalz@mirabellekes@skyegellmann
How Not To Climb a Mountain, 2026
A live performance experiment.
Physical instability structures the dramaturgy.
Through repeated attempts, allowing mistakes and unintended outcomes, the work accumulates.
13 March
Borderville Theatre, Albury NSW
Tickets via link in bio
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concept & performance
Skye Gellmann
@leethalz
set & costume design
@mirabellekes
sound design
Lee Wilson
Phil Downing
producer
Michaela Coventry
company
@branch_nebula
