Through various styles of dance, the human body will symbolize and explore life, preservation, metamorphosis, decay and death.
7.00–7.30pm Sue Benner Theatre
What happens when we embrace our vulnerability and allow it to fuel our actions and words when connecting with others?
6.00–6.30pm Sue Benner Theatre
An interactive live projection work illuminating how humanity is moved by the unseen, the space between and contagious blindsight.
5.00–5.30pm Sue Benner Theatre
Exploring the oppressive nature of freedom of speech online, using verbatim comments from media articles.
4.00–4.30pm Sue Benner Theatre
Drop in & out of this performance installation come endurance test inspired by the Greek myth Sisyphus.
Multiple Times Multiple locations
A piece about mathematics, the beginnings of the universe and the fundamental indeterminism of the quantum world.
8.00–8.30pm Sue Benner Theatre
A birthday hug from Mum. A high five from your sister. A chance to learn from the one who knows you the best. Imagine if you had to wait hours for the one thing that most young people get to do everyday: talk to their parents. Waiting and Searching shares the untold stories of young people who are navigating their way through life and the unfair rules and regulations of the criminal injustice system. A part of Backbone’s 2high Festival at Metro Arts.
Fracture. Buckle. Dislocate. Three collections of solo dance and circus performances that leave artists honest, open and bare.
7.00–9.30pm Carpark Stage
Left alone, we become submerged in our thoughts. For some, this means freedom. For others, it is inescapable, overwhelming, suffocating.
What are the conditions necessary for intimacy beyond the mutual desire to connect? A one-on-one encounter.
6.00–10.00pm The Cutting Bar
Part Ted talk, part physical theatre, part stand up comedy. Was Einstein really a genius or just good at listening to ideas? Enter the world of The Idea.
Burn out? Post show blues? Fatigue? Injury? Raise awareness about the mental and physical challenges of working in the arts.
2.30–3.15pm The Studio
If mothers know best, grandmothers know everything. A play created with an Indigenous grandmothers group with plenty of stories to tell.
2.00–2.30pm Sue Benner Theatre