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Adelaide Festival Centre's inSPACE program for 2008 kicks off with Paradise City, a spectacular fusion of street-style and dance presented by Australian company Branch Nebula, running from 23 - 26 April at the Space Theatre.
A skater, a b-boy, a BMX rider, an acrobat, a dancer and a fallen diva carve out a pleasure ground from a stark urban space, in the show that turned the Sydney Opera House into a skate-park!
Six figures circle each other, bike teasing acrobat, dancer tangling with singer. Tension builds. Skateboard circles. Wheel on wheel. Wheel on body. Body on body. They explode into action. Paradise City harnesses the raw energy of a street-style jam with tight choreography and a live score spanning sumptuous Bach, driving beats, and the crunch of skateboard wheels on concrete.
See Australia's finest urban artists including X-Games Champion BMX rider Simon O'Brien, acrobat Alex Harrison, skateboarder Petera Hona, b-boy Anthony "Lamaroc" Lawang, dancer Kathryn Puie, and singer Inga Liljestrom in a battle to reclaim the city with body, board and bike.
Founded in 1998 Branch Nebula creates distinctive, hybrid movement-based performance combining dance, theatre, acrobatics, music and design to create powerful and visceral experiences for audiences. In addition to touring within Australia, the Sydney-based company has performed in Belgium's prestigious Victoria Festival, and in late 2007 toured Paradise City to Brazil to perform in four dance festivals where they played to sold out houses.
Co-creators Lee Wilson and Mirabelle Wouters say: "The body and the experience of that body in all its viscerality is a primary concern in our work. We embrace the culture around us and beyond the world of theatre, whether attending events like kickboxing, wrestling, speedway, video arcades, BMX competitions, peep shows or just doing our shopping. These aspects of cultural life are what we want to share with our audience, because it's what we know, we live it and we love it."
"An intensely absorbing, lyrical, nightlife street culture fantasia... Lee Wilson and Mirabelle Wouters have created a work of poetic intensity out of everyday play, dance and physical theatre." RealTime
Performers from Paradise City will also be conducting a workshop on Thursday 24 April at 1pm. The workshop is $20 or free for members of the Adelaide Festival Centre's GreenRoom program for under-25's. All skill levels of dance, movement, skate and BMX are welcome. For more information and to register call (08) 8216 8512 or email
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Branch Nebula and Adelaide Festival Centre's inSPACE program present
Paradise City
Co-creator/Director: Lee Wilson
Co-creator/Designer: Mirabelle Wouters
Creative Consultant: Kate Champion
Composer/Live Sound: Bob Scott
Performers: Alexandra Harrison (acrobat), Petera Hona (skateboarder), Anthony "Lamaroc" Lawang (b-boy), Inga Liljeström(composition/singer), Simon O'Brien (BMX), Kathryn Puie (dancer)
Venue: Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre
When: 23 - 26 April 2008, 7pm
Cost: $30 Adults, $20 inSPACE members
Bookings: BASS on 131 246 or online at www.bass.net.au
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