Queensland's performing artists live and create in a changing landscape of light and shade. It inspires them to make work that confronts and challenges convention. Contemporary dance, circus, physical theatre, opera, drama, comedy and experimental music take new forms - inspiring reflection at home and enthralling audiences abroad.
Some of Queensland's leading international artists have been identified in the Queensland Made Export Guide. See below for a list of the identified dance and music artists and companies.
The rich musical traditions of China's Sichuan Province meet the Australian avant-garde creations of Clocked Out in an innovative fusion of Chinese and Western sounds. Featuring street songs and jazz along with opera and folk, this cross-cultural collaboration draws focus from Chengdu's oldest neighbourhood The Wide Alley.
A compelling new production from Dancenorth, Nowhere Fast premiered in Townsville, Australia, in July 2009. Likened to the dream of arriving at work naked, only to find you may be, Nowhere Fast is fresh, honest and raw Australian dance from choreographer Ross McCormack.
Natalie Weir's first full-length work as Artistic Director introduces a new dance vocabulary to the internationally acclaimed Expressions Dance Company. Where the Heart Is features Weir's renowned partner work and organic movement and explores universal themes of humanity that are real, touching and tangible.
Dirty Apple is a compelling new opera which looks at how 21st century technology is changing the parameters of peer pressure and communication. The story explores the explosive issue of cyberbullying and asks the question: if this happened to you, what choices would you make?
Acclaimed Australian ensemble Polytoxic dance theatre unveils the cultural reality of Polynesia with an episodic ride of postcard-like vignettes through the past and present. Inspired in part by cheesy tourism commercials selling the unspoiled magical beaches and 'the beautiful tribal peoples' of the Pacific, Teuila Postcards draws from a range of sources, including historical missionary diary entries from the 1830s, tacky tourism adverts, Elvisstyle Pacific movies and a view of everyday Samoa. Fusing traditional Pacific and contemporary dance theatre, Teuila Postcards is a tongue-in-cheek look at the oppression and evolution of an island.
When Topology and The Kransky Sisters get together, familiar pop songs, popular classics and black humour are heard in completely fresh ways. The three dysfunctional sisters join the tightly rhythmic strings, sax and piano of Topology, finding new sides of their personalities in combinations of musical saws, Edith Sitwell poems, Van Halen and Michael Jackson covers, musical toilet brushes and classic Aussie rock. Following sold-out seasons in Brisbane, it's time for the unlikely combination to get out more.
Food Chain is a new dance theatre work exploring animality, sex, voyeurism, performance and power. Food Chain begins in a naive forest. Bears are top of the food chain. They lure humans with food, the smell of a dead body or the tape recording of a baby crying with the desire to experiment on them - firstly for food and then with the desire of watching them become sexually active. They are bears and also men in bear suits - clumsy, threatening, cute and ultimately alien. This is David Attenborough turned on its head, where the animals are the voyeurs of human behaviours.
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