TWERK IT

Twerkshop, created by performance artist Caroline Garcia for Festival Of Live Art, will see the artist guiding you through the bootylicious basics of dancing with your pelvis, one on one all while taking you through twerking’s history within the African diaspora. A moving, jiggling critique of twerking’s mainstreaming as a form of colonisation, this intimate…

PERFORMANCE

01/03/2018

THE SOUND OF FALLING STARS

First, lets get one thing straight: The Sound Of Falling Stars is marvellous performance, existing in some perfect place that most creatives only ever dream of calling their own. Though, perhaps, not surprising when the creative team working here is lead by one of Australia’s most luminary and distinguished theatre directors, Robyn Archer, then left…

MUSIC PERFORMANCE

01/03/2018

WORDS ON FIRE

Words On Fire, the first cab of the rank for The Wheeler Centres 2018 program, and a fierce representation of the power and subversiveness of words. Delving head first into a murky quagmire of debate around family, lineage, nationalism and identity, relating these central themes to both contexts close to home, and those that more…

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01/03/2018

OUR NEW NATIONAL SPORT

Terror – if it doesn’t kill us, will it make us stronger? This is the question that artist Cigdem Aydemir poses in her latest work The New National Sport, a live art endurance performance. As part of the performance, audience will witness Aydemir as she returns serves sent from a tennis-ball throwing machine, which eject balls…

PERFORMANCE

27/02/2018

GLITTA BOMB

Psychedelic, Satirical, Personal & Political storytelling that’s packed to the rafters with puns, punches & possibilities. BODY MAP is deep dive across the consumer bordered planet and into our inner being, highlighting our capacity to transform despite the odds. Created by Australia’s most celebrated underground performance artist & the worlds original sex clown Glitta Supernova…

PERFORMANCE

26/02/2018

HAND TO GOD

Hand To God is much like the sex life of Barnaby Joyce, good fodder, cheap entertainment, and bearing all the hallmarks of some nasty car crash you can’t help but want to watch in all and every bit of gory detail. But apart from this, it’s pretty slim pickings and should be approached most certainly,…

PERFORMANCE

26/02/2018

SQUASH!

Ricocheting off all four walls for one spectacular night only, SQUASH! is a grand tournament like no other – a series of exhibition(ist) squash matches between the athlete and her public challengers. Fast- paced and unapologetically violent, SQUASH! smashes egos, conflicts and rivalries around the court, as contestants struggle in a bizarre cavort of politeness, tension and aggression within…

PERFORMANCE

23/02/2018

LANDING

An absurd one-night only swim-a-thon at the Melbourne City Baths, Landing is a desperate endurance act and a continuous relay where the distance between Manus Island and Australia will be collectively swum. Landing invites participants to physically experience distance and participate in a policy of exile – which both underpinned Australia’s colonisation and is repeated today at offshore detention sites. Through…

PERFORMANCE