JULIA

This is a dynamic dance theatre performance that will rock your socks off!

Suitable for presentation in a range of audience configurations & formats. A simple staging combined with dynamic visual projections makes this an exciting totally immersive experience for the audience.

An hour of artistry, beauty, politics and high drama the work can be presented stand alone (60 mins) or combined with local dance curtain raiser, or offers exciting pre/post performance engagement opportunities with local womens groups to host speaker events/critical responses to the role women & leadership in their communities.

Community and Audience Engagement:

Natalie Allen (Performer/co-creator/co-producer) is an award-winning dancer with an extensive professional career. She has collaborated/ performed work by leading choreographers from Australia & around the world; Leigh Warren, Rafael Bonachela, Adam Linder, Emanuel Gat, Jacopo Godani, Larrisa McGowan, Alexander Ekman, Gary Stewart, Natalie Weir, Alexander Whitley, Gwyn Emberton, William Forysthe, Samantha Chester, Sally Richardson & Richard Cilli. Allen has been creating work since 2013 which has been presented locally, nationally & internationally. In recent years, Allen & collaborator Samuel Harnett-Welk were the 2019 International Strut SEED Residents at Komunitas Salihara, Jakarta, creating a new duet titled Arca. Climacteric a solo work that originated as a site-specific work for In Situ 2017 was redesigned in 2018 for Micromove at the Blue Room Theatre & then presented at the 2019 Contact M1 Festival, Singapore. A Night Out! a community generated show reinventing social dance, created in 2017, touring regional WA in 2019. In 2019 Natalie performed in Maxine Doyle’s Sunset for Perth Festival & joined the cast of Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More in Shanghai. https://www.steamworks.net.au/biographies/natalie-allen

Sally Richardson (Director/co-creator/co-producer) is an award-winning writer/director & producer. She has worked for companies & organisations; Black Swan Theatre Company, Perth Theatre Company, Deckchair Theatre, Spare Parts Puppet Theatre, The Flying Fruitfly Circus, Malthouse Theatre, Company Belvoir, NICA, NAISDA, WAAPA, CIRCA & ABC Radio. Productions of her work have been awarded Helpmann, Green Room, Blue Room, Ausdance WA Awards, Dance Australia Critics Choice & been presented at major arts festivals nationally (Sydney, Perth & Melbourne) & internationally including Shanghai International Arts Festival, Beijing Dance Festival & Sao Paolo Festival. She has created works across multiple platforms in Australia & overseas. She is a past recipient of an Australia Council Dramaturgy Fellowship & a Creative Arts Fellowship (DCAWA). She is Artistic Director of Steamworks Arts (since 2000). Dance/theatre works include; the multi award winning The Drover’s Wives, Standing Bird & Standing Bird 2 & GUI SHU (Belong). Sally has collaborated on projects with choreographers; Sue Peacock, Felicity Bott, Rakini Devi, Shannon Bott, Kynan Hughes, Company Loaded, Stefan Karlsson, Danielle Micich, Daisy Sanders, Jodie Farrugia & others. She has directed/ produced dance films; The Drover’s Wives, Standing Bird 1 & 2, VAKA & Eliza, Belonging & JHIH exhibiting films nationally & internationally. Recent works inc.; Trigger Warning (PLWA & PICA), FEARLESS & CATCH! for MAXIMA Circus, dance/theatre work Flesh & Bones Micromove & Kiss Club & MEDEA for Black Swan Theatre Company. She developed #thatwomanjulia with Natalie Allen for Strut’s Shortcuts then NEXT for Move Me Festival 2018.