The Substation/ Melanie Lane/ New Creation/
Wheelchair accessible
New Creation is imagined as a multi-layered audience experience. A journey that is visual, visceral, transformative and interactive. As we continue to accelerate into a future where our interaction with natural and technological worlds blurs, New Creation seeks to ask questions about the intersection of technology and mortality.
As a performance, the work takes place in a re-imagined Garden of Eden, a site of ritual where performers undergo a metamorphosis, searching for ways to ‘enter the flesh again’ in a world constantly being remade. With sound composition by UK producer Clark, AV gaming environment (artist tbc) and a central set design by Marg Horwell that allows for experiential audience movement in and around the performance area, and which transports both audience and performer into an elemental other-world.
CREATIVE TEAM
Director & Choreographer: Melanie Lane
Set Designer: Marg Horwell
Sound Composer: Christopher Clark (aka CLARK)
Performers: Benjamin Hancock, Georgia Rudd, Rachel Coulson, Tyrel Dulvarie & Samuel Hartnett-Welk
Producer: Freya Waterson
The development of New Creation has been supported by The Substation, The Australia Council for the Arts and Chunky Move.
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