SPACE AND PLACE
An unforgettable performance created with and for your community.
Space and Place is a large-scale site-specific community engagement project involving aerial performance, interactive animation projections, music, shadow puppetry played out on a local iconic structure. This community engagement project has storytelling at its core. Each show is unique to the host community with a co-creation ethos. The Space and Place team bring the conceptual framework, the artistic personnel for workshops and the production management involved in mounting a major community arts project.
Bring your community together as one large performance company creating a one-off performance event on your local iconic structure.
First developed in Natimuk and performed on silos, Space and Place has also been presented on a coal dredge in the La Trobe Valley and as Poppet on a poppet head in Bendigo.
The Team
- Performance Director: Jillian Pearce
- Animation Director: Dave Jones
- Community Choir Director: Santha Press
- Shadow Puppet Director: Mary French
- Shadow Sculptor: Dr Greg Pritchard
- Aerialists: 4
- Riggers: 3
- Projectionist:
- Production Manager: and Site Manager
- Dramaturgy: Verity Higgins
- Sound Designer/Composer: Russell Goldsmith (Galaxias and Poppet Bendigo)
- Lighting Designer/operator: Tom Willis
- Sound -Outlook Communications
Additional Features
Ideally team with associated local artists in each area.
Technical Specifications
- 16 people – for bespoke residency period. Modelled on 5 weeks
- Sound and light design according to site specific structure, could be sources locally or contracted in.
- Local artist and production team
- Traffic and public management
- Local producer
- Access to one high and iconic structure
- 2-3 4000 lumen Data Projectors (min strength)
- 2 strong generators or access to 3 Phase Power
- Low staging 3 by 3 m
- Staging for choir and band up to 150 people
- Public barriers
- Access to warm up. Change room and amenities,
- Drinking water access.
