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Sea Symphony

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Sea Symphony

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Theatreworks

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Start date

2024-05-30

End date

2024-06-08

Research statement

Background Adaptation and innovation within theatre practices toward a more inclusive mode of making has focused on the audience experience in recent decades. This research investigates modes of access and inclusion as principal dramaturgical drivers within a sensory artwork about the sea. The result, Sea Symphony, enables people of all abilities to engage with important questions about climate change, personal agency, and to have opportunities to contribute as artists. Contribution Blending participant voice recordings with ambient natural sounds like waves crashing and rock pool splashes in relationship to edited video, the research explored three questions: How can an inclusive approach to the material making, composition, and presenting practices of audio and video installation afford participants and audiences an experience of shared interior sensing? What do we have to let go of as makers so that the artwork enables access to forms of personal affective agency? In what ways can participant memories of the sea inform compositional decisions and generate a universal dramaturgy where no performer or audience has the same experience? Significance Commissioned by Rawcus Theatre to make Sea Symphony which was funded with $15000 from the City of Port Philip ‘Love My Place’ grant. Rawcus is a critically acclaimed Australian ensemble of actors with and without disability which has won and been nominated for multiple Green Room and Helpmann Awards; has featured in prestigious events: Dance Massive, The Melbourne International Arts Festival, Next Wave and Melbourne Fringe; and has worked collaboratively with diverse arts companies: Restless Dance Company, Born in a Taxi, The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Made. Presented by TheatreWorks, Sea Symphony attracted 140 attendees.

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Live performance, audio visual installation

Editor/Contributor(s)

Savage J, Savage B, Dale L, Biguet S, Edwards R, O’Loughlin H, New R, McEvoy M, Riisik L, Menon I, Matley P, Cornwell K, Rose M

Event

Sea Symphony

Publisher

Theatreworks

Place of publication

St Kilda

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