Sunset / Perth Festival 2019, STRUT Dance WA, Tura New Music
Leave your comfort zone and enter a mysterious world where you wander with the spirits of Perth’s colourful past. Discover forgotten secrets in the dusty shadows of one of our city’s most intriguing and significant heritage sites – Sunset down by the iconic Swan River.
From the renowned UK director-choreographer Maxine Doyle (co-director of Punchdrunk’s The Drowned Man, Sleep No More) comes a visceral dance-theatre performance that is epic in reach but intimate in experience. Inspired by the riverside precinct’s rich and unique history and the bushland that surrounds it, a stunning cast of Australian performers transforms the former Sunset Old Men’s Home into a waiting room between worlds, where classical myth collides with West Australian stories and local heroes can waltz with gods.
A Perth Festival Co-commission
Presented in association with Tura New Music
Read Timothy's interview with STRUT Dance about Sunset here.
Download the Sunset program here.
Performing Arts WA Awards, 2020
Nominated
Best New Dance Work
Nominated
Best Newcomer
Viola Iida
Nominated
Best Composition or Arranging
Rachel Dease
Nominated
Best Sound Design
Rachel Dease
Australian Dance Awards, 2020
Nominated
Outstanding Performance by a Company
Winner
Outstanding Achievement in Commercial Dance, Musicals or Physical Theatre
Performance dates:
February 7 - 17 2019
Sunset Heritage Precinct
Duration: 60 mins
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"Director-choreographer Maxine Doyle has created a piece of interactive dance-theatre that respects - even celebrates - the location. It is not dance perfection. It is raw, intimate, energetic, sweaty. It feels right.
This is a show that envelops. And it enriches. And it entertains."
Kent Acott, The West Australian, February 9 2019
Image by Simon Pynt, 2019
Image by Simon Pynt, 2019
Image by Simon Pynt, 2019
Image by Simon Pynt, 2019
"The most dramatic, atmospheric, immersive, 360 degree, epic musical theatre dance experience not to be missed
A highlight was a scene in the kitchen behind the hatch where the barber shop-styled “chef” comically made a rather messy cake as he dances
Their energy, stage presence and embodiment of their characters... was mesmerizing"
Fiona Cooper Smyth, OutInPerth, February 9 2019
Creative Team
Artistic Director
Maxine Doyle
Associate Director
Conor Doyle
(The Lost Girl cabaret)
Assistant Director &
Choreographer
Sarah Dowling
Paul Zivkovitch
Choreography
Maxine Doyle
Conor Doyle
in collaboration with the company
Composer &
Sound Designer
Rachael Dease
Design Installation &
Costume Designer
Bruce McKinven
Lighting Designer
Matt Adey
Cast
Natalie Allen
Humphrey Bower
Scott Galbraith
Tim Green
Brendon Handson
Kynan Hughes
Viola Iida
Bernadette Lewis
Zachary Lopez
Sarah Maelor
Callum Mooney
Antonio Rinaldi
Musicians
Rachael Aquilina (Violin)
Brian Kruger (Violin)
Kathy Potter (Viola)
Tristen Parr (Cello
Executive Producer
STRUT Dance
Production Manager
Chad Wetton
Tracy Shaw
