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Intimate Spectacle

Echo Mapping

Co-created by Azzam Mohamed & Jack Prest

Azzam & Jack have extraordinary understanding, thanks to their six years' collaboration, and this is the third of their four works together. Azzam is an exquisite performer, and a rising star, whose debut full length work as choreographer, Katma (PYT Fairfield, also with Jack as composer) was the hit of Sydney Festival 2025.

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ABOUT THE SHOW

A duet for sound and body.

Echo Mapping is a thrilling, joyful sound/movement duet performed by longtime collaborators, electronic musician/composer Jack Prest & street dancer/choreographer Azzam Mohamed. It is about knowing when to listen, when to respond; when to lead, when to follow; when to claim space, when to yield it; and most importantly, when to share it. 

Jack’s live score moves from transcendent textures to thundering beats to ethereal trumpet, while Azzam performs both voice & body: from commanding stillness to fluid yet intense choreography, singing Sudanese melodies recorded, looped & manipulated by Jack.

“This was such a special program, a total soul enriching experience up close & personal in the small spaces at 107 Projects.”

Justine Shih Pearson, Artistic Director, PACT

Raw creativity and unpretentious process are the backbone of Echo Mapping, stripped back to the simplest elements, no sets, no costumes and minimal production; the sole focus is on the sound and movement.

You’re up close to the action, performed in the round, every tiny moment magnified, and immersed in the visceral sonic atmosphere they create, in a shared experience leaving you feeling transformed, exhilarated, refreshed.

Audience Engagement

Azzam is an experienced, warm and charismatic teacher and workshop facilitator, sought after to run workshops in various street dance styles & African dance, everywhere from Destructive Steps (street dance festival) to Sydney Dance Company. Together, Jack and Azzam can also share their unique approach to collaborative performance making, in artist talks, workshops, or bespoke processes with local artists.

“I’d seen this impressive movement/sound work in a shorter version earlier this year in Redfern. This longer 60-minute version at AGNSW is even better & confirms that producer Harley Stumm has an eye and ear for what contemporary performances can achieve. Contemplation, concentration & reflection are evident throughout as the movement & accompanying music unfolds in changing tempos, stillness & energy.”
- Robert Love, former Director, Riverside Theatres Parramatta -

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A full body shot of a man dancing. He is wearing a blue t-shirt and black pants. He us striking a pose with his right hand on his face and left hand outstretched.
A mid-shot of a man at a microphone. He is wearing a lime green t-shirt and has his hands on his head. A bearded man plays the trumpet behind him.
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A full body shot of a man dancing. He is wearing a blue t-shirt and loose black pants.
A profile shot of a bearded man playing a trumpet. He is sitting in front of a sound desk. Another man is dancing in the background with people watching.
A dancing man, wearing a maroon beanie and red t-shirt.
A mid-shot of a man at a microphone. He is wearing a maroon beanie and red t-shirt and has his hands on his head.

ABOUT Intimate Spectacle

Intimate Spectacle is an independent producing company founded by Harley Stumm in 2012. It works across genres, from contemporary theatre, dance & dance theatre, to live art and music, collaborating with some of Australia’s most exciting performance makers, including Latai Taumoepeau, Brian Fuata, Jack Prest, re:group performance collective, Rakini Devi, Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal, Nick Power, Branch Nebula, post, Vicki Van Hout, Sam Routledge, Cambodian Space Project, Erth, Team MESS and Lenine Bourke. 

It has produced over 25 new works, and over 130 seasons, in every Australian state and territory, as well as Hong Kong, Malaysia, Cambodia, UK, Germany, Spain, Netherlands, Hungary, Austria, Finland, and Chile. Previously Harley was Senior Producer at Performing Lines 2005-11 managing the Mobile States touring network; and Executive Producer at Urban Theatre Projects 1995-2003, when UTP won the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award.

Photography by Anna Kucera and Prudence Upton

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