V by Justin Shoulder (Aus) & Cinquanta Urlanti, Quaranta Ruggenti, Sessanta Stridenti (Furious Fifties, Raring Forties, Screaming Sixties) by Dewey Dell (Italy)
The Exchange is a reciprocal process of development, presentation and exchange between two young and exciting theatre companies: Italy’s Dewey Dell and Australian collaborating artists Justin Shoulder, Toby Knyvett and Nick Wales. The project has been facilitated by artist and creative producer Jeff Stein.
Arts House and Next Wave present two programs of work featuring the exciting young artists of The Exchange.
V
Justin Shoulder (Australia)
Urban mythmaker Justin Shoulder creates a unique fusion of live performance and theatrical ceremony. Faith speaks of a God that created the angels pure and good, but subjected them to a test. Some passed triumphantly, while others rebelled and were eternally tortured in Hell. These are the devils and demons; implanting passion and obsession, they can utterly derange human faculties.
Calling to life a demon for today, the creature ‘V’ is manifest. In a ceremony of the senses the theatre becomes an altar for V to revel in the beauty and horror of contemporary idolatry and its fifteen minutes of fame.
Devisor/Performer/Costumes: Justin Shoulder
Vision Designer: Toby K
Original Music: Nick Wales
Creative Producer and outside eye: Jeff Stein
Cinquanta Urlanti, Quaranta Ruggenti, Sessanta Stridenti
(Furious Fifties, Raring Forties, Screaming Sixties)
Dewey Dell (Italy)
Young Italian company Dewey Dell takes inspiration from the seafaring universe in this precisely and sensually choreographed work, named after the howling winds of the lower southern hemisphere – the most dangerous waters in the world.
Reflecting on the union of sailors and their vessels at sea, the company creates a new protagonist – a single organism of world, mariner, wind, ship and ocean, inextricably combined. An offshoot of the ground-breaking Societàs Raffaello Sanzio, Dewey Dell describes a dreamlike journey though an undefined, bleak world.
Creators/Performers: Sara Angelini, Agata Castellucci, Teodora Castellucci
Choreographer: Teodora Castellucci
Original Music: Demetrio Castellucci
Sets and lighting: Eugenio Resta
Sound: Marco Canali
Set realisation: Rinaldo Rinaldi
The Exchange has been supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the arts, its arts funding and advisory body, the Next Wave Festival and the City of Melbourne through Arts House.
V was originally commissioned by Performance Space, Sydney.
Cinquanta Urlanti, Quaranta Ruggenti, Sessanta Stridenti was originally co-produced with Centrale Fies Romaeuropa Festival Rencontres Chore'graphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis Festival Uovo Performing Arts with the support of NEXT/Regione Lormbardia.