SUNSET 7 - 17 FEB 2019 SUNSET HERITAGE PRECINCT A PERTH FESTIVAL CO-COMMISSION WORLD PREMIERE
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Image: Simon Pynt AUSTRALIA/UNITED KINGDOM STRUT DANCE | MAXINE DOYLE SUNSET 7 – 17 FEB 2019 SUNSET HERITAGE PRECINCT A PERTH FESTIVAL CO-COMMISSION WORLD PREMIERE Presented in association with Tura New Music
Image: L.E. Shapcott
SUNSET
SUNSET HERITAGE PRECINCT
FESTIVAL CONVERSATIONS
Made in WA: Art from the Edge
Thu 7 Feb 8pm Hear from artists behind the Festival’s WA-made
Fri 8 Feb - Sun 10 Feb 8pm & 9.15pm world premieres discuss what it is to create projects
Wed 13 Feb 8pm from the perspective of one of the most remote
Thu 14 Feb - Sun 17 Feb 8pm & 9.15pm places on Earth.
Duration 70mins
Sun 17 Feb 3.30pm
Pre Show Conversation State Theatre Centre of WA
Thu 14 Feb 7pm FREE
Wheelchair accessible
Please note: Contains nudity, strobe & haze effects In 2019 Perth Festival presents seven world premieres of
daring new work by Western Australian companies
co-commissioned by the Festival and proudly stamped
MADE IN WA.
We invite our audience and visitors from across the
country and around the world to our Festival city
to discover the brilliant work being made here in
Commissioned by STRUT Dance and Perth Festival and Western Australia.
presented in association with Tura New Music
Perth Festival acknowledges that our events take place on the lands of the Noongar people.
LOOKING FOR SOMETHING TO DO AFTER THE SHOW?
Wind up or down and grab a drink CHEVRON GARDENS BAR UNDERGROUND
and bite to eat with artists, friends at Elizabeth Quay Venture down below at the State
and strangers at our Festival hubs. Kick back under the stars to Theatre Centre and slide into the
enjoy late-night DJ tunes late-night world of Perth Festival
Thursday–Sunday. open every night until late.CREDITS
Artistic Director Maxine Doyle STRUT Dance
Associate Director Conor Doyle
Director Paul Selwyn Norton
Associate Choreographer Paul Zivkovich
General Manager Alica Byfield
Choreography
Administration Carly Armstrong
Maxine Doyle, Conor Doyle, Paul Zivkovich
in collaboration with the company Finance Natalie Johnson
Composer & Sound Designer Rachael Dease
Designer Bruce McKinven Board of Directors
Lighting Designer Matthew Adey Jon Smeulders (Chair)
June Moorhouse (Deputy Chair)
Cast Members
Antonio Rinaldi, Bernadette Lewis, Brendan Hanson, Franklin Gaffney
Callum Mooney, Humphrey Bower, Kynan Hughes, Lisa Jackson
Natalie Allen, Sarah Mealor, Scott Galbraith, Louis Mostert
Timothy Green, Viola Iida, Zachary Lopez
Michael Murphy
Text Humphrey Bower Ricky Arnold
Musicians Artist Members
Brian Kruger (Violin), Rachael Aquilina (Violin), Amy Wiseman
Kathy Potter (Viola), Tristen Parr (Cello) Emma Fishwick
Lead Vocalist Rachael Dease Laura Boynes
Executive Producer STRUT Dance strutdance.org.au
Associate Producer Lewis Major
Production Manager Tracey Shaw Tura New Music
Production Manager Music Tristan Parr Founder & Artistic Director Tos Mahoney
Stage Manager Olivia Amodt Executive Director Annalisa Oxenburgh
Costume Coordinator Nicole Marrington Artistic Program Manager Tristen Parr
Head Mechanist Trinity Lowrie Marketing, Development & Program Coordinator
Lighting Operator Brock Preston Anna Sparkes
Audio Operator Ben Nelson Development Liesbeth Goedhart
Technical Crew Social Media Rachel Davison
Chris Hingley, Dima Kasko, Geoff Dent, Paul Blackburn Media Tracy Routledge
Audio Installation Guy Smith, Tim Collins
Technical Hire Board of Directors
Brock Preston / Elite Audio Visual Productions
Gavin Ryan (Chair)
Publicity Alison Welburn / Limelight Consulting
Rod Campbell (Treasurer)
Simon Dawkins
Special thanks to Mr Barry McGuire, Mr David Collard, Prof
Robyn Johnston
Ian Lawrance and the STRUT donor circle, Sarah Dowling,
Shane Colquhoun, Jayson Puls, Gwyneth Latham and Justine Lawler
family, Rina Lewis, Nedlands Library Local Studies and all Dominique Monteleone
the individuals who, in the making of this work, shared Helen Symon QC
their personal history with us.
SUNSET is proudly supported by tura.com.au
PERTH FESTIVAL
08 6488 2000 | perthfestival.com.au
Artistic Director Wendy Martin
Executive Director Nathan Bennett
Perth Festival Board Chair John BarringtonA NOTE FROM
THE DIRECTOR
Sunset began its life as Claremont Old Men’s Home in BLACKOUT WINDOWS
1904 and was renamed Sunset Hospital in 1942. It was a
place of both sanctuary and palliative care for old and
destitute men away from the city and the harshness of the They painted all the windows black
West Australian bushland, only opening its doors to No one could see you
women in 1965 when it became a general hospital.
Sunset was decommissioned in 1995. Hovering in the night sky
No stars winked at them from the dark earth
The moment I walked on site, I fell in love with Sunset
Heritage Precinct, from its peeling walls to the jarrah Not even the owls could hear you
wood ceilings of the great hall. The buildings spoke
volumes. I could imagine the whispers of those masters
and matrons living at Sunset, caring for the colourful The building closed its eyes
residents who took refuge there.
And slept
And dreamed of peace
I was struck, also, by the brutal collision between the
abandoned site and the opulence of the surrounding And time stood still
neighbourhood. It made me reflect on the world we
live in – a world of the haves and the have-nots. And day turned into night
And summer into winter
Inspired by Sunset’s proximity to nature and the majestic
Swan River, I wanted to draw on the universal themes that And nothing ever changed
a site like Sunset offers: those of love, of loss and of an On the good ship Sunset
existential limbo, weaving them through with the classical
Greek myths of Demeter and Persephone – Demeter The ship that never went down
the goddess of grain and a mother searching for her lost
But floated nowhere on an endless ocean
daughter, Persephone. In the imaginary world of Sunset,
Demeter, our veiled woman in black, represents the land,
grief and the endless search for re-union in life and death.
Meal-times blended into one another
SUNSET, the work, offered the gift of original Tea and cake merged into dinner-time
collaboration, co-commissioned by STRUT Dance and And midnight snacks left a trail of crumbs
Perth Festival in association with Tura New Music.
All the way to breakfast-time again
My role as artistic director has really been to bring
together a vision, which unites site, dance, design,
light and music, and facilitate the talents of a uniquely You were like a child playing hide and seek
Australian cast and creative team. Dialogue with the Till you became part of the furniture
designer Bruce McKinven, lighting designer Matt Adey,
composer/performer Rachael Dease and associate An eyeless ruin sitting in the shade of the temple
director Conor Doyle involved many hours at Sunset. Till you felt someone’s hand on yours
Often at night, we would try to soak up the atmosphere
and dream about ways we could heighten the site’s It could have been a nurse or a visitor
implicit drama and set the buildings as the main character,
Stroking your forehead, helping you to your feet
centre stage.
And leading you outside into the sunlight
I’d like to leave you with some final words from To the place where everybody sleeps
Alfred Ganz – a fictitious Sunset resident who has penned
many anthologies of poetry as a way to while away While the strange wind whispered in the leaves
the waiting hours. This particular poem draws on Alfred’s
own response to Anne Whyntie’s seminal book about
Sunset’s history.
Alfred Ganz (Humphrey Bower)
Maxine DoyleImage: Emma Fishwick
STRUT DANCE
At present, there are few contemporary dance blend of dance-theatre and site activation through her
organisations in Australia that can support a full-time rich experience as choreographer and co-director of
ensemble and enable choreographers to develop their Punchdrunk’s The Drowned Man and Sleep No More and
craft. We are therefore a nation of agile, independent through her ongoing collaborations with such prestigious
artists who hunt and gather opportunities, Australia wide. companies as the Martha Graham Company. More than
200 artists from all over the country have engaged with
this program since its inception, and we are extraordinarily
STRUT Dance is all about opportunity – the opportunity
excited to be seeing the program reach its peak with
for artists to engage with national and international
Perth Festival as our SUNSET co-commissioning partner,
leaders and collaborate across art forms so that they
alongside Tura New Music.
can develop, articulate and ultimately platform their
own choreographic voices. This is a unique model of
opportunity in Australia, and I am not shy to say that what It has been an incredible honour to be the first arts
STRUT offers is indeed a unique model of opportunity organisation to wake the Sunset Heritage Precinct from
internationally. its decennia of slumber. On behalf of the STRUT Board
and executives, Maxine and the creative team, I want to
thank the Hon David Templeman, MLA Minister for Local
We partner with choreographers such as Ohad Naharin,
Government; Heritage; Culture and the Arts, and Duncan
William Forsythe, Crystal Pite, Hofesh Shechter and
Ord, Director General for the Department of Local
Antony Hamilton, some of the most pertinent and
Government, Sports and Cultural Industries. Our sincere
visionary practitioners in the field of contemporary dance
gratitude to them for entrusting STRUT to open the doors
the world over. Through their generous and ongoing
of Sunset and to add the next line of narrative to the rich
investment, STRUT aims to develop a more vibrant
history that the site already speaks to.
Western Australian arts sector, build community here in
Perth and foster aspiration, innovation and engagement
for all our artists and audiences. I put my hand on my Now please, step inside ...
heart when I say that STRUT’s capacity to continually
attract and retain talent in WA is really the best evidence
Paul Selwyn Norton
of our success.
Director STRUT Dance
Another one of those international leaders who has
been working with us since 2016 is Maxine Doyle, who
together with her team, Connor Doyle, Sarah Dowling
and Paul Zivkovich has devised a program of cross-
artform development that collides the disciplines of
dance, theatre and music. Maxine brings her uniqueBIOGRAPHIES
Maxine Doyle
Artistic Director &
Choreographer
Maxine Doyle is an independent choreographer and director. Since 2002
she has been associate director and choreographer for Punchdrunk, with
whom she co-directed the multi-award winning Sleep No More (London,
Boston, New York, Shanghai), The Drowned Man, The House Where Winter
Lives, The Firebird Ball, Faust, Masque of the Red Death, Tunnel 228 and The
Duchess of Malfi (an operatic collaboration with English National Opera and
Thorsten Rasch).
Her work for theatre includes Evening at the Talk House (NT), Electra (Old
Vic), The Changeling (Young Vic), Hamlet (Young Vic), The Children’s Hour
(The West End), Timon of Athens (The Globe) and Every Good Boy Deserves
Favor (National Theatre). Her opera work includes Faust (Baden Baden) and
The Cunning Little Vixen (Glyndebourne) and recent dance theatre work
includes After Lethe (Staastheater Kassel). Doyle is a regular principle artist at
Springboard Danse Montreal creating Hubris, Electric Sheep and Miss D. She
also teaches workshops internationally including the B12 festival in Berlin.
Mari, Doyle’s first feature film collaboration with writer/director Georgia Paris
and dancer Bobbi-Jene Smith, premiered in October 2018 as part of the
London Film Festival. 2019 will bring new work – 4:18 for Verve Dance Company
(UK) and Deo for Martha Graham Dance Company (USA).
Conor Doyle
Associate Director
British born but now Shanghai based, Conor Doyle’s directing credits include
artistic director of events at the McKinnon Hotel Shanghai and the McKittrick
Hotel New York, Sleep No More (Shanghai and New York), The Drowned Man
and artistic consultant for Punchdrunk on Rihanna.
His performing credits include Sleep No More (Shanghai, New York and
Boston), The Drowned Man, Faust and The Duchess of Malfi (Punchdrunk),
The Revengers Tragedy and War Horse (National Theatre), Pictures From an
Exhibition (The Young Vic) and Cocteau Voices (The Royal Opera House).
Paul Zivkovich
Associate Choreographer
Paul Zivkovich was born in Australia and is currently based in New York City. He
has worked with Australian Dance Theatre, Sydney Dance Company, Bonachela
Dance Company (UK), Akram Khan Company (UK), Eastman/Sidi Larbi
Cherkaoui (Belgium) and Punchdrunk (UK/New York/Shanghai). He received
Most Outstanding Performance by a Male Dancer at the 2004 Australian Dance
Awards and was nominated for Best Leading Actor in a New Production of
a Play at the 2013 BroadwayWorld UK/West End Awards. He was Assistant
Choreographer on the 2012 feature film Anna Karenina, and has appeared
in GQ Magazine, Vogue Homme, Dappertapper Magazine and L’Officiel,
and featured in Lois Greenfield’s book Moving Still. He is currently rehearsal
director and performer for Punchdrunk and continues to work internationally
as a movement director for film, TV, music videos, visual art and fashion.Rachael Dease
Composer & Sound Designer
Graduating with honours from the Western Australian Academy of Performing
Arts in composition, Rachael Dease’s artistic practice encompasses the
realms of art music, pop culture, theatre and science. She won the inaugural
Martin Sims Award for Best Performance and Music Award at FRINGE WORLD
for her contemporary song cycle ‘City of Shadows’, which also won the 2013
Melbourne Fringe Music Award and received critical acclaim at New York
Fringe Festival. Her song cycle for small ensemble and planetary sounds ‘From
a Small Distant World’ premiered at the Art Gallery of Western Australia in 2015.
Her composition and sound design for theatre productions include Antigone
(Black Swan/Matthew Lutton), 8Gigbytes of Hardcore Pornography (PTC/
Griffin), the Helpmann Award- nominated It’s Dark Outside (PTC) and New
Owner (The Last Great Hunt). Installations include Epic Narratives and Black
Mass (PICA 2015). Dease has been a Besen Fellow at Malthouse Theatre (2013),
resident artist at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (2015) and Lumen
Studios - Atina, Italy (2016). She was recently awarded the 2017 DCA Performing
Arts Fellowship.
Bruce McKinven
Designer
Bruce McKinven graduated from QUT’s Visual Arts course in 1994 and NIDA’s
Design course in 1997. He is currently the senior production designer for
DARK MOFO Festival in Hobart, and site designer for Adelaide Festival’s
Adelaide Writer’s Week. He has a 25-year career designing for dance, theatre,
festivals and events across Australia, working with some of the nation’s leading
practitioners. In dance, Bruce has designed productions for Expressions Dance
Company, Force Majeure, Australian Dance Theatre, Dance North, Tasdance,
Queensland Ballet and Singapore Dance Theatre, working with choreographers
Natalie Weir, Kate Champion, Raewyn Hill, Garry Stewart, Michael Whaites,
Clare Dyson, Barry Moreland and Cynthia Harvey.
Matthew Adey
Lighting Designer
Matthew Adey is a multidisciplinary artist from Melbourne known for his
bold aesthetics in design through light, object and spatial responses for
live performance, contemporary dance and light sculpture installations. He
graduated from VCA with a Bachelor of Fine Arts - Theatre Production in 2011.
Design collaborations in the performing arts include DARK MOFO, Phillip
Adams Balletlab, Jo Lloyd and Nicola Gunn, Atlanta Eke, Antony Hamilton,
Shian Law, Luke George, Sarah Aiken, Rebecca Jensen, Melanie Lane, Lilian
Steiner, James Batchelor, Matthew Lutton & Malthouse Theatre, Red Stitch
Actors Theatre, MKA, Elbow Room and Michele Lee.
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With its expansive range of city-based and regional programs, Tura works with both high profile and emerging artists to
ignite the disruptor in music through artistic risk and discovery. Tura is not about the conventional or the expected, but
rather what can be born from nurturing daring and embracing boldness.
Due to the diversity of its programs, in designing them, Tura provides an arena for the constant development of globally
significant artworks that reflect Australia’s energy, diversity and sense of place. In doing this, Tura creates an essential
pipeline for Australian new music and the sonic arts.
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