The River Eats by Justin Shoulder (Aus) & Grave 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.
The River Eats
Justin Shoulder (Australia)
Articulating our fears about contemporary living, Justin Shoulder welcomes us to the Land of One Thousand Distractions. Here all the comforts of the modern world materialise in 3D as you click NEXT. Navigating this terrain is the creature 'Pinky': an over caffeinated, hyperactive, attention-deficient demon.
In this fable exploring distraction in the digital age and our changing relationship to the natural environment, the theatre becomes Pinky's landscape as we uncover instinct and primal impulse in Pinky's search for meaning.
Devisor/Performer/Costumes: Justin Shoulder
Vision Designer: Toby K
Original Music: Nick Wales
Creative Producer and outside eye: Jeff Stein
Grave
Dewey Dell (Italy)
Grave is an Italian word indicating something that has a weight – something subject to the force of gravity.
Young Italian company Dewey Dell explores the sensation of a precipitating body, the slowness of its gestures as gravity brings it hurtling to the ground at breakneck speed. The movement is firm within the acceleration – a motionless moment inside the speed of a body that knows it’s going to crash.
Concept: Agata Castellucci, Demetrio Castellucci, Teodora Castellucci, Eugenio Resta
Performers: Agata Castellucci, Teodora Castellucci
Choreographer: Teodora Castellucci
Original Music: Demetrio Castellucci
Lighting: Eugenio Resta
Costumes: Chiara Bocchini, Carmen Castellucci, Daniela Fabbri » Drawing: Clio Casadei
Production: Dewey Dell, Fies Factory
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.
The River Eats has been commissioned and supported by the Next Wave Festival and the City of Melbourne through Arts House, and developed through a Residency at Performance Space, Sydney.
Grave was originally co-produced by Centrale Fies, Buda Kunstencentrum, Rencontres Chorégraphiques de Seine-Saint-Denis, Fabbrica Europa, in collaboration with AMAT per Civitanova Danza and supported by Interplay Torino, Pontedera TeatroEra.
Presented by Arts House and Next Wave.