Performing Arts - Touring 2011
Image Courtesy Arts Victoria
“The Australian Government is proud to be associated with the Boats tour through the national performing arts program, Playing Australia, which gives Australians across the country the opportunity to see some of our best performing arts.”
Boats is classic storytelling where the magic created unfolds in front of the audience. Jof and Nic enact the story using everyday objects that would be found on a boat’s galley. The sound effects for the show are made live through two microphones, one of which goes in water. Each scene is a unique and highly inventive use of space and puppetry. A boat is made from a piece of bread, and ropes. An island is made from a hat. A circus is made from a jacket. And a storm is made with a teacup.
Boats has acrobatics, physical theatre, object manipulation, story telling, and of course the wonderful puppetry that has made Terrapin famous locally and nationally. It is a moving story which ultimately tells the story and adventures of Nic and Jof with a twist at the end which will leave a lump in your throat and a smile on your face.
Founded in 1981, Tasmania’s internationally acclaimed Terrapin Puppet Theatre tours locally, nationally and internationally and is recognised as one of the world’s premier puppetry companies.
Tour dates 6-23 August 2011 include the following communities:
Darwin Festival; Palmerston, Katherine, Beswick, Daly River (Naiuyu), Yirrkala, Garrathalala
LITTLE BIG SHOTS - Children's Film Festival
Perfect for families and kids aged 2 to 15, Little Big Shots is Australia's major annual and traveling children's film festival. An inspiring, meaningful and fun-filled festival, Little Big Shots features the best in local and international children's shorts, animations, documentaries and, amazingly, child-produced films. The films screening in Little Big Shots inspire discussion of world cultures, different languages, cultural diversity, emotional intelligence and human values. Better still, we guarantee they will make kids laugh, whoop, think and create. Each year in June, Little Big Shots returns to its Melbourne home town with a whole new crop of juicy screen adventures to amaze and delight, before touring to over 20 venues around Australia.
2011 Tour Dates
Monday 5th December – MacFarlane Primary – Katherine
Wednesday 7th December – Tennant Creek Primary School and Ali Curung
Friday 9th December – Alice Desert Park and Yarrenyty Arltere
Monday 12th December – Browns Mart Darwin
2011 Tour Dates:
Friday 15 July - Darwin Community Arts (workshop)
Saturday 16 July - Darwin Entertainment Centre (performance)
Monday 18 July to 20 July - Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation, Jabiru (workshops and performance)
LOOP THE LOOP - Arts on Tour
Prepare to be violently impressed when master musician Gene Peterson, goes head to head with multi instrumentalist Adam Page, in this phenomenal musical showdown. In this 100 minute jam-packed performance, the audience will be treated to a plethora of amazing skills, from simultaneously playing keyboards and drums, to Tibetan throat singing, to using a variety of vegetables as musical instruments!!
Set in a boxing ring, complete with blue & red corners, ‘Loop the Loop’ showcases a musical battle like no other! As each artist attempts to out-play the other with their multitude of musical abilities, they continually record their music into a loop pedal, creating the aural illusion of an entire band playing live! Both performers from 'Loop the Loop' are virtuoso musicians in their own right, and have each toured nationally and internationally, performed at festivals worldwide and have accumulated countless awards and accolades along the way.
As the competition is fierce, the musicians are forced to pull their best tricks out of their arsenal! ‘Loop the Loop’ also features a high level of comedy, and audiences can look forward to marvelling at the outrageous skills displayed, whilst being tickled by the humour. Sometimes quirky, often hilarious, at times unbelievable, but always impressive, 'Loop the Loop' offers the ultimate performance package.
6/7 empty
Presented in partnership with Kultour
6/7 empty is an extraordinarynew solo dance work by talented Australian-Indonesian dancer/ choreographer, Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal. Influenced by her training in traditional Indonesian dance, Japanese martial arts, Indigenous Australian dance, ballet and modern dance, Tunggal has a unique choreographic language. 6/7 Empty draws inspiration from universal Pleiades star constellation mythology, and focuses on a lost seventh sister engulfed by elemental forces of an early morning storm. As she encounters seeing and being seen in the immediacy of the world she inhabits, the sister embodies the experience of any isolated individual searching for community and a sense of belonging.
Photographer: MARIKA NIKEN TYAS TUNGGAL
Performance and workshops available in Alice Springs and Darwin, July 2011. Dates to be confirmed
MUTTACAR - SORRY BUSINESS
Muttacar - Sorry Business is a hard hitting theatre piece aimed at reducing the road toll in Indigenous communities. The play tackles key issues such as drink-driving and risk-taking behaviour. All performances and their accompanying workshops are free.
The 2009 tour incorporated NT actors into 22 shows performed to 1622 people in Darwin schools, the Berrimah Jail and remote communities throughout Arnhem Land and the Roper Gulf regions. The group travelled 4464 km in four weeks, including performances at the Barunga Festival, June 2009.
The performance toured extensively again in 2010 toremote and regional NT communities in including: Darwin, Palmerston, Berrimah, Batchelor, Wadeye, Peppimenarti, Naiyu, Adelaide River, Daly River, Timber Creek, Yarralin, Katherine, Kalano, Pine Creek, Jabiru, Oenpelli, Maningrida.
Muttacar Sorry Business won the Project of the Year Award in the National Not For Profit sector, 2010.
Another touring season is anticipated for 2011 and interested communities are invited to respond to the Tour Manager on 08 8941 1444
