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In 2008 Branch Nebula take their breathlessly skilful performance of
Paradise City on the road around Australia to delight audiences of all
ages in a one hour display of explosive energy, cheeky interaction and
jaw dropping talent.
A skater, a break-dancer, a BMX rider, an acrobat, a dancer and a
fallen diva carve out a pleasure ground from a stark urban space, in
this spectacular fusion of street-style and dance.
Welcome to Paradise City, fresh from a highly successful tour to Brazil
in 2007, from Sydney-based dance theatre company Branch Nebula.
Six figures in a space survey and then circle each other, bike teasing
the acrobat, dancer tangling with singer. Tension builds. Skateboard
circles. They explode into action. The board climbs a skate ramp and
slams across the top, unleashing a torrent of sounds and bodies.
The BMX rider dances from pedal to peg and up on one wheel, his bike
spinning around his body as though it is alive. The diva sings to a
live score spanning sumptuous Bach, driving beats and the crunching
sounds of skateboard wheels. The performers begin to interact, to
steal each other’s moves. Wheel on wheel. Wheel on body. Body on
body…shifting effortlessly from explosive energy to lyrical, sensual
duets.
Director, Lee Wilson says “This project has grown out of a love for the
anarchic, do-it-yourself nature of the urban art forms of breaking,
flatland BMX and freestyle skateboarding. Paradise City integrates
these forms into a tightly choreographed ensemble work, with resonating
layers of meaning for the audience – but staying true to the raw energy
and excitement of a street style jam.”
Co-creators Lee Wilson and Mirabelle Wouters have brought together an
extraordinary team, with street-style professionals mixing it with
performing artists: BMX rider, Simon O’Brien, who has been X-Games
Champion, Los Angeles and Asia; physical theatre performer, Alexandra
Harrison, skateboarder Petera Hona, B-boy Anthony “Lamaroc” Lawang,
dancer Kathryn Puie and singer Inga Liljestrom.
Don’t miss the chance to see Australia’s finest urban artists, in a battle to reclaim the city with body, board and bike.
“An intensely absorbing, lyrical, nightlife street culture fantasia…
Branch Nebula’s Lee Wilson and Mirabelle Wouters have created a work of
poetic intensity out of everyday play, dance and physical theatre,
making the most of oscillations between stillness and action and, above
all and magically, of the strange time-space in between… More and more
audiences should be invited into this strange paradise.” REALTIME
Branch Nebula’s
PARADISE CITY
Co-creator/Director: Lee Wilson
Co-creator/Designer: Mirabelle Wouters
Composer/Live Sound: Bob Scott
Sound Engineer: Liberty Kerr
Creative Consultant: Kate Champion
Performers: Alexandra Harrison (Acrobat), Petera Hona
(Skateboarder), Anthony “Lamaroc” Lawang (B-Boy), Inga Liljeström
(Composer/Singer), Simon O’Brien (BMX), Kathryn Puie (Dancer)
2008 National Tour
Brisbane
Brisbane Powerhouse 9 – 12 April | 07 3358 8600 or www.brisbanepowerhouse.org
Darwin
Darwin Entertainment Centre 15 – 16 April | 08 8980 3333 or www.darwinentertainment.com.au
Alice Springs
Araluen Arts Centre 18 – 19 April | 08 8951 1122 or www.nt.gov.au/nreta/arts/ascp/araluen
Adelaide
Adelaide Festival Centre 23 – 26 April | 08 8216 8600 or www.afct.org.au
Perth
PICA 30 April – 10 May | 08 9228 6300 or www.pica.org.au
Melbourne
Artshouse 14–17 May | 03 9639 0096 or www.easytix.com.au/artshouse
Wodonga
Wodonga Civic Centre 21 May | 02 6022 9223 or www.wodonga.vic.gov.au
Wollongong
Merrigong Theatre Co. 23 – 24 May | 02 4226 3366 or www.ipac.org.au
Sydney
Performance Space 28 May – 7 June | 02 9698 7235 or www.moshtix.com.au
Sydney
Casula Powerhouse 10–11 June | 1300 795 012 or www.ticketek.com.au
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