Breakout Residencies: Announcing Successful Recipients 2020

Brink Productions Residency: Jo Stone

Solo Development; July/August, 2020

Presented in partnership with Brink Productions

A solo development based on the diaries and final writings of Kafka. A reflection on a final hour: a play of mourning, remembrance and ultimately a celebration of life.

Jo Stone graduated from Flinders Drama Centre and works in theatre, television and film. She formed Stone/Castro with Paulo Castro in Europe 2002. Jo has taught for various institutions over the last 20 years including disability arts, professional workshops and school drama workshops 1-12 and with STCSA/The Road home creating new work with Veterans with PTSD.

Theatre credits: Welcome the Bright World / Sewell (Charles Sanders/ STCSA umbrella), The Country /Martin Crimp (Stone/Castro) Adelaide Festival 16, Infected / Stephen Sewell (Charles Sanders), White Rabbit, Red Rabbit (Nassim Soleimanpour), Blackout (Paulo Castro) Adelaide Festival 14, Information for Foreigners (Benedict Andrews), Danton’s Death (Paulo Castro), Congratulations (Stone/Castro), B-File (Paulo Castro) (nominated Best performer Green room awards 07), Superheroes (Stone/Castro), Pyjama Girl (LadyKillers) and Please Continue by Duncan Graham (David Mealor), MiWi 3027 development (STCSA/ Country Arts SA) Julian Meyrick. Directions: Dis-integration (DanceNorth), Untitled, SOF#1 and Fragments of Faith (AC Arts Dance Dept), Private Lives (Feast Festival 09), and Superheroes (Stone/Castro),‘Fury’/ Joanna Murray Smith (AC Arts Acting Dept). Movement Consultant/Director: Thursday (Brink Productions), Metro Street (STCSA), Pornography (STCSA), Jesikah (STCSA). Dance theatre/Self devised/ Opera performances: Foi (Sidi Larbi Cherokaui / Co les Ballet C de la B, Blue Love (co-directed/performed with Shaun Parker), Big in Bombay and Back to the Present (Constanza Macras), Writing to Vermeer (Peter Greenaway), Madam Butterfly (Moffatt Oxenbould /Matthew Barclay) State Opera SA and Cube (ADT) Adelaide Museum. Film credits: The Big Nothing (Sharptooth Pictures) (nominated Best Actress FirstGlance Film Festival Hollywood), Grounded (Luke Wissell), Going for Gold (Glen Pictures) and Double Happiness Uranium (Cole Larson). TV credits: Children’s TV series Music Shop (Ch:9 Series 1, 2), Changed Forever, Plonk Series 2, ABC mini-series Anzac Girls and Pine Gap.

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Spotlight Residencies: Felicity Boyd & Zoe Gay of Motus Collective

The Credits; August, 2020

Work in Development: The Credits is a dance-theatre work focusing on the undeniable relationship between performer, creator and audience. Through examining our power and choices, The Credits deconstructs the traditional theatre experience as we know it.

Felicity Boyd has spent the last eight months touring Europe, three as part of Swedish dance company ilYoung. She has worked with artists from Batsheva Dance Company, Hofesh Schecter, Gothenburg Opera, Sascha Waltz & Guests and Wim Vandekeybus of Ultima Vez. In 2019 she performed in Jessie McKinlay’s A Supposed Truth, performed for Gravity and Other Myths at RCC Adelaide Fringe, and co-founded Motus Collective. In 2018 she worked as a replacement dancer on Australian Dance Theatre’s South, toured and performed with The Human Arts Movement, and toured and performed with Lewis Major Projects on Losers. She graduated in 2017 from Adelaide College of the Arts with a bachelor’s degree in Creative Arts (Dance). In 2020 Felicity performed Howl alongside of Aphids, which premiered at the Art Gallery throughout the Adelaide Fringe.

Zoe Gay graduated from Adelaide College of the Arts in 2017, where she had the opportunity to work with renowned choreographers such as Jo Stone, Larissa McGowan, Tobiah Booth-Remmers and Kialea Nadine- Williams. In her second year of training, Zoe joined Australian Dance Theatre for their production of Objekt choreographed by Garry Stewart. Upon graduation, Zoe received a scholarship from Helpmann Academy and The Mill to travel to Sweden and join IlYoung, a youth dance company run by Israel Aloni and Lee Brummer. While in Europe, she also spent time with National Dance Company Wales, Norrdans and completed a residency with IcoDaco. Upon returning to Australia, Zoe has had the opportunity to work with many established artists including Lina Limosani in her production of Not Today’s Yesterday, Larissa McGowan in her production of Cher and Jessie McKinlay in her Fringe performance of A Supposed Truth. In 2019, Zoe co-founded Motus Collective, a collective aimed at exploring inter-disciplinary connections and creations. The collective run improvisation classes weekly and have conducted residencies at ADT, The Mill and recently performed in VitalStatistix Adhocracy program, performing a self-choreographed work called Old Body: New Management. In 2020, Zoe performed in the award winning Retrieve Your Jeans at the Adelaide Fringe.

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Spotlight Residencies: Adrianne Semmens & Jennifer Eadie

Leave only your Footprints; August/September, 2020

Work in Development: This project builds upon a collaboration between dance practitioner Adrianne Semmens and writer Jennifer Eadie and the text created together, Leave only your Footprints, facilitated by The Mill Adelaide Writer in Residence program, and commissioned by Delving into Dance in partnership with Critical Path as part of the Digital Interchange Festival 2019/20.

Adrianne Semmens is a dance practitioner with experience working across the arts, education and community sectors. Born in Adelaide, Adrianne is a descendant of the Barkindji People of NSW and a graduate of NAISDA Dance College and Adelaide College of the Arts.

Adrianne’s professional experience includes: the Australian Ballet’s Dance Education Ensemble; Wagana Aboriginal Dancers (NSW) and Erth Visual & Physical Inc; Adelaide Fringe Festival seasons with choreographers Jade Erlandsen (2014 & 2011) and Cathy Adamek; and Spirt Festival performance Songlines choreographed by Gina Rings (2011). More recently Adrianne has performed the work of Kaine Sultan-Babij (for Dance Rites 2019) as a member of Kurruru’s Senior Dance Ensemble and has returned to her own choreographic explorations, including Unravel, a site specific work during Panpapanalya, the 2018 Joint Dance Congress. A qualified teacher, Adrianne maintains a passion of dance education, supporting Kurruru Art and Culture Hub’s education program, providing professional learning opportunities and tutoring for the University of South Australia’s Arts Education Course.

Jennifer Eadie is a writer and artist, living and working on Kaurna Yerta. Currently, she is a lecturer in the Aboriginal Pathway Program at the University of South Australia and a PhD Candidate in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University. She is a graduate of UNSW Art & Design. Her creative practice combines text and art to explore connection to place, while her research focuses on ecological rights and approaches to caring for Country. Recently, Jennifer was Writer in Residence at The Mill (2019/20) and Scotch College, Adelaide (2020). Her art and writing has been published in Critical Path, Educational Philosophy and Theory, Borderlands e-journal, Extempore and Frankie Magazine.

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Free-range Residencies: Monte Masi

U want me to see you, I see u my son. Now go flourish with that clout u received; June and September, 2020

Work in Development: This is a performance which examines desire, online shopping trends, and what we do with the things that we buy (and say) late at night.

Monte Masi is an artist living and working on Kaurna Land who makes performances, videos, and text works which examine the labour of looking and the ways we look together. Recent exhibitions and performances have included IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII performed at the Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide; Born (as part of Transcriptions for Fine Print), performed at the Art Gallery of South Australia, 2018; INSPI-RAY SHUN-SHUN APP-LI-KAY SHUN-SHUN at Hobiennale 2017, Hobart; and Work in Progress: Investigations South of Market at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. In June 2019 he attended Behaviour Swarm, a performance art-focused residency program at the Banff Centre for Creativity, Canada.

Previous curatorial and collaborative presentations have included The Case for Nonsense, presented at the 2016 Adelaide Festival of Ideas, Art on Tap for the Australian Experimental Art Foundation and Model United Nations at Open Engagement, USA. Additionally, Monte was a co-founder and co-director of the artist-run gallery FELTspace from 2007 to 2010. Monte holds an MFA in Social Practice from California College of the Arts, as well as Visual Art and Education degrees from the University of South Australia. He is the recipient of several grants and fellowships including the Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship, John Crampton Traveling Scholarship, Ian Potter Cultural Trust grant and Arts South Australia project grants.

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Free-range Residencies: Steph Daughtry & Hannah Rohrlach of Post Dining

Eating Tomorrow; June/July, 2020

Work in Development: A brand new interactive performance around the themes of future foods, featuring a progressive narrative exploring what and how we might be eating over the next 100 years.

Steph Daughty and Hannah Rohrlach co-founded creative production company Post Dining in 2015, exploring the artistic merits of using food as a tool to explore socio-political concepts, and to push the boundaries of intimate audience engagement. This often involves collaboration between local artists, musicians and designers, and they have produced work with the Australian String Quartet (ASQ), MOD., Open State Festival and are currently in the development stage of new work in collaboration with Tai Kwun Arts Centre in Hong Kong, London based Feast Festival, and the Edinburgh International Science Festival.

Awards: 2019 Nominated: Adelaide Critics Circle Award, Independent Arts Foundation Award for Innovation; 2019 Adelaide Fringe Weekly Award, Best Interactive, Film or Digital; 2017 New Venture Institute, Venture Dorm Finalists;
2017 Adelaide Fringe Weekly Award, John Chattaway Award for Innovation; 2016 Adelaide Fringe Weekly Award, Best Emerging Artist Award; 2016 Adelaide Fringe Weekly Award, High Commendation for Interactive Category.

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Free-range Residencies: Jamila Main

How To Eat Rabbit; July, 2020

Work in Development: This project is an early stage development of new play How To Eat Rabbit, a one-act play featuring two characters written by Jamila Main.

Jamila Main is a trained actor and self-taught playwright based on unceded Kaurna land. A graduate of the Adelaide College of the Arts Acting program (2018), Jamila performs across stage and screen, most recently as Leen in the acclaimed Aleppo, A Portrait of Absence (Adelaide Festival, 2020) and Karin in Set Piece (Anna Breckon, Nat Randall, Vitalstatistix, 2019).

Jamila’s plays have received accolades from STCSA (Immaculate, Commendation, 2016; How To Eat Rabbit, Merit, 2019), HotHouse Theatre (When I Was Eleven, 2016), Feast Festival and Writer’s SA Queer Short Story Competition (Butterfly Kicks, Winner, 2018; Queer Utopia is on the Roof of a Westfield, Winner, 2019), with Butterfly Kicks shortlisted for the 2020 Queer Playwriting Award in Midsumma Festival. In 2019 Jamila was selected for ATYP’s National Studio, mentored by Lachlan Philpott, a participant in Playwriting Australia’s workshop with Patricia Cornelius, and interviewed Kate Mulvany for the This Is How We Do It podcast. Jamila sits on various MEAA committees, is one of the founding artists of RUMPUS and currently serves on the RUMPUS Finance Committee, is an Endometriosis advocate, and a 2020 Carclew Fellow. Jamila is currently producing Butterfly Kicks to be staged at RUMPUS.

Breakout Residencies: Announcing successful recipients 2019

Spotlight Residency: Brittany Plummer

Chameleon; April/July 2019

Work in development: Throughout her Spotlight Residency, Britt will be collaborating with Hew Parham, as Director, and Ben Brooker, as Dramaturg, to shake up original work Chameleon that Britt devised and performed in for its premiere season at Adelaide Fringe 2019. Britt, and her creative team, will be turning the piece on its head and delving further into the world of the Bouffon. Bouffon is a way of shining a light on the injustices in society, the lead up is slow burning, and then the message lands strongly. Chameleon was created with the desire to rouse social change around men’s attitudes towards women, sexism, and harassment women encounter in the workplace, in relationships, and wider society. The ways we adapt, and mould our selves to meet other's expectations; changing our behaviour, appearances, and masking of emotions, to blend in, and sometimes survive. Chameleon is a personal piece for Britt, as all stories are her own. It is a conversation, a celebration of women, authenticity and embracing our individuality. 

Britt Plummer is an actress, theatre-maker, teacher, and director of FRANK. Theatre, she is a graduate of the Adelaide College of the Arts, and École Philippe Gaulier in France. In 2018, Britt founded FRANK. Theatre, a SA company presenting original work that explores the human condition with honesty, humour, and heart. Specialising in bouffon, clown, and vaudevillian styles, Britt is driven by theatre rooted in the realms of pleasure, play, and connection with the audience. Britt has worked with Monski Mouse Productions, Foul Play, Punctum, Early Worx, Slingsby, Five.Point.One, ActNow, and State Theatre Company of SA. Britt is a teacher of Le Jeu, Neutral Masque, Mask Play, Bouffon, and Clown, to acting students at the Adelaide College of the Arts. In 2018, she directed students in a Bouffon show in Paulo Castro’s ‘La La Luna’. Britt premiered ‘Chameleon’, her first solo work, in the 2019 Adelaide Fringe Festival at MakeSpace, and received the Adelaide Fringe Weekly Award for Emerging Artist. In March 2019, she worked with Punctum on the immersive durational theatre work ‘Public Cooling House at WOMADelaide. In June 2019, Britt joins the London cast of the Edinburgh Fringe hit, Flabbergast Theatre’s ‘The Swell Mob’, presented by Adelaide Festival Centre as part of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival.

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Freerange Residency: GIRL

Masc; May, 2019

Work In Development: Masc will be a sonic event, an electronic song cycle and a live experimental sound performance that responds to the following provocations: How do we forge a sonic template for queerness? How does a non-Masc body exist in that space?

GIRL is an Australian-based queer music and live performance project by Jason Sweeney and Em König in collaboration with LGBTQI+ comrades. These artists formerly known as Winter Witches seek to amplify queer sonics and bent gestures into a world gone normal. Their work to date spans live art concerts, art DJ duo (Vegan Festival, Wild Style, Laneway Festival, Adhocracy) and sound art installation/performance. Their first major work, Sentients, was commissioned as part of the Vitalstatistix Climate Century Festival in 2018. As a live art project, GIRL continue to tour across Australia. Their new work, MASC, is being developed with support from Adelaide Festival Centre, The Mill, The SUBSTATION, pvi collective and Performance Space in 2019. 

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Freerange Residency: Tobiah Booth Remmers

Damaged Goods; June, 2019

Work in Development: Damaged Goods is a solo research project that explores the frailty and unpredictability of being human. Through metaphor and imagery the work will delve into the experience of living and surviving in a world that sometimes throws everything at you, and at other times leaves you completely alone. It will search through ideas of endurance, vulnerability, unknowingness and revelation in an attempt to make some sense of this continuing journey.

Tobiah is a freelance dance creator, performer, teacher and facilitator from Adelaide, Australia. Since graduating from the ‘Adelaide College of the Arts’ Bachelor of Dance Performance in 2009 Tobiah has worked with a wide range of Australian and international artists; Garry Stewart (ADT), Graeme Murphy (Sydney Dance), Branch Nebula, Brink Productions, Larissa McGowan, Lina Limosani, Gabrielle Nankivell, Paul Gazzola and Paulo Castro among many others. Tobiah has performed in major arts festivals; Adelaide Fringe Festival, Adelaide Festival, Brisbane Festival, WOMAD, Dance Massive (VIC), Dublin Dance Festival and has performed at the Barbican Centre, London. Tobiah has choreographed numerous works with his Adelaide based performance collective; ‘The Human Arts Movement’ and short works for students at ‘Adelaide College of the Arts’ and ‘LINK Dance Company’ in Perth and has lectured at both colleges as well as at ‘Queensland University of Technology’ and ‘Transit Dance’, Melbourne. Tobiah has lived and worked in Europe during 2016/17, receiving residencies in Bulgaria, Brussels and Sweden, with resulting works being performed in Brussels, Bulgaria and Greece. Tobiah has also taught workshops on his own creative and movement practice in Brussels, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Sweden and Israel.

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Freerange Residency: Anya Anastasia and Aaron Austin-Glen 

August, 2019

Work In Development: Anya Anastasia and Aaron Austin-Glen are currently developing a theatrical musical comedy for stage and screen set in an unspecified rural Australian town that has seen more prosperous days. The crux of the script centres around the town’s attempt to return the community to its glory days through a series of heart warming yet ridiculous large scale schemes. With particular focus on the frustration, felt both on an individual and collective level with local bureaucracy and political inaction, the script is a razor sharp commentary on the current Australian and global landscape.

Anya Anastasia is an internationally acclaimed songstress with a vivid and twisted imagination. She has traversed the globe with her original songs and bold performance pieces appearing at festivals in Europe, the UK, around Australia and NZ.  Anastasia’s vocals range from husky jazz with a brazen Aussie inflection, to operatic soprano paired unusually with irreverent contemporary musings, though her roots firmly in the world of folk, and she wields a shamelessly un-ironic penchant for catchy pop melodies. Known for her wit and poetic lyricism she is the creator and writer of multiple critically acclaimed darkly funny musical theatre shows that are currently touring Australia. http://anyaanastasia.com/

Aaron Austin-Glen is an independent producer developing multi-disciplinary productions in unconventional spaces for major festivals and arts organisations. With extensive experience as a producer for Brisbane Festival, Woodford Folk Festival, New Zealand Festival and the Southbank Centre London spanning contemporary music, theatrical performance, community engagement, literature and large scale spectacle he has a wealth of creative knowledge and industry connection in Australasia, UK, Germany and India. Aaron has also written, performed and produced his autobiographical show 'Somewhere Else But Now' in Germany (Munich & Cologne), UK (Southbank Centre) and Australia (Anywhere Festival).

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Brink Productions Theatre Residency: Hew Parham

Three Bananas; April/May & August, 2019

Work in Development: Three Bananas is a one-man theatrical show about the bicycle, heroes, trophies, the ego and the ups and downs of life. Drawing from the styles of physical theatre, clowning and story telling, the show is ambitious, epic and crosses many continents in its scope.Inspired by legendary Italian cyclist Gino Bartali who said: “Medals aren’t meant to be worn on the shirt they are to be worn on the soul”, the "three bananas" are the performer himself searching for meaning, self worth and an award-winning story; an egomaniacal narcissist cycling champion whose relentless drive to win covers a deeper truth, and Bartali himself. It calls on the great socially aware clowns such as Chaplin, Tati and Fo in how the buffoon through humour can shine a mirror to what is happening in the world right now. Can the clown stop looking at himself for a second to see what is happening in the world? Can the clown move out of the shadows of his heroes to see his own worth?

Hew is a graduate of Flinders University Drama Centre, Adelaide Australia. In 2007 Hew was the recipient of the Neil Curnow Award where he studied at The Hunter Gates Academy of Physical Theatre one-year program in Canada. Hew has also extensively trained and mentored in the Pochinko Clowning/Clown through Mask Method with John Turner at The Manitoulin Conservatory for Creation and Performance (MCCP). In 2013 Hew received a grant from Arts SA to work with British Physical Comedy troupe Spymonkey in London, England. Hew has developed several solo shows with his comedic characters – including Odyssey Schmodyssey which played at the Sanguenay Fringe Festival in Quebec, Canada as well as the Amuse Bouche New York Clown Theatre Festival; The Giovanni Experiment and Giovanni! which also played at the New York Clown Theatre Festival in 2014 and more recently at The Wonderland Festival in Brisbane, Australia. In 2016 Hew was commissioned to produce a new work at The Adelaide Cabaret Festival Rudi’s The Rinse Cycle. In 2017 Hew was employed by Melbourne based company Bunk Puppets to tour their show Sticks Stones Broken Bones to Norway, Germany and China. He is the resident Clown teacher at Flinders University.