Perth based choreographer Chrissie Parrott is calling on members of the community to donate their music boxes, with or without a ballerina, for her world premiere dance theatre work, The Garden.
To create The Garden Ms Parrott will collaborate with four of Perth’s most versatile performing artists; Jonathan Mustard, Julia Moody, Jacob Lehrer and Jo Pollitt. Set to a soundscape of 100 music boxes, the work will explore new territory in the collision between sound, dance, technology, text and visual media.
Chrissie Parrott has a reputation for creating work which involves collaboration, and The Garden is no different.
Partnering with up to 40 elite visual and sculptural artists, Ms Parrott plans to re-clad, alter and adorn a selection of the donated music boxes and integrate them into The Garden – performance and installation at the Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery in Fremantle this November.
“I am sure that most households have a music box sitting gathering dust. This is an opportunity to bring these lovely objects back to life in a new and unusual way” said Ms Parrott.
Anyone can donate their music box to the project. Music boxes can be any shape, size or condition as long as the musical apparatus is in working order.
A complete list of the artists involved in this project will be released in July.
Donate in person to Performing Lines WA Level 1 King St Arts Centre, 365 Murray St, Perth (Monday – Friday 9-5pm office hours only)
Donate by post to Performing Lines WA PO Box 7437, Cloisters Square, WA, 6850
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