About the lab
In a 3-day creative development lab, Back to Back Theatre's Sarah Mainwaring opened up her process of making performance. Sarah invited artists to take their own body as a jumping off point, enter her duration and the spaces she creates, and experiment with improvisation using their body, voice and text.
Held in conjunction with PACT's presentation of Sarah's Elephant (creative development) in December, eight emerging artists were paid an honorarium of $60/day to participate in the lab, and a performance fee of $500 to perform a short improvisation as part of our Elephant experience 1-3 Dec.
Make sure to check out the eight artists who were involved in this exciting lab, and purchase your tickets for Elephant; showing early December.
Grab your tickets for Elephant (in the making) now!
Shows:
1st December: 7pm ft. Daley Rangi and Jalen Ong
2nd December: 7pm ft. Visnhu Arunasalam and Olivia Hadley
3rd December: 1pm ft. Alia Ardon and Savannah Stimson
3rd December: 7pm ft. Cassidy McDermott Smith and Josh Freedman
the artists
Over the three day lab, the artists gained an insight into Sarah's creative process and connected in deep conversations over the core questions that Elephant poses – how to stage emptiness, what we see in ourselves, and what is between life and death?
The work is textured with Sarah's particular lived experience, her poeticism, and her special ability to elicit wonder and emotion in performance. For the PACT season, she invites two of our PACT artists to join her on stage for each performance.
Elephant is different each performance - a malleable set of improvisational scores, always in the making.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.