Snake Sessions
Created by Mirabelle Wouters and Lee Wilson
Sydney company Branch Nebula returns with its Helpmann Award winning street-style choreography and unique engagement process. Taking up residency for a full week in the local skate park of each town, the Branch Nebula team will be jamming moves and tricks with the locals in the build up to a spectacular improvised performance at the end of each week. Touring in 2018 and available to tour in 2019.
Production photography by Adam Scarf
The work was absolutely outstanding and delivers as pure community engagement of the highest quality. Keep delivering this strongly impactful work!
With a live drummer driving the action, bodies and wheels collide, race each other, and blur into one. Branch Nebula and its team of professional skaters, BMX riders, dancers and parkourists have wowed audiences from Sydney Festival to Hong Kong, Finland and Chile – now it’s time to tour Australia.
Snake Sessions brings an audience to a skate park to share an experience of urban culture as a powerfully dramatic and artistic experience, and a celebration of its virtuosity and inventiveness.
REVIEWS and Feedback
"Circus for the fearless, the urban. A beautiful portrait of human defiance, of connection, of adrenaline."
Augusta Supple, Australian Stage
“Great artists, great show, great week! The local dancers and skaters who were involved throughout the week thoroughly enjoyed their experience.”
Louise Bezzina, Artistic Director, Bleach Festival
“You guys should know how much of an impact you had on my boys and the skatepark. Thankyou for an amazing experience, it was awesome! I hope you all keep inspiring kids and give more and more of them a chance to express themselves and be free – The world needs more people like you guys.”
Whyalla participant
PERFORMANCE HISTORY AND TOURING DATES
Artlands Dubbo, 2016
Shoalhaven Entertainment Centre, 2016
Mandurah Performing Arts Centre, 2017
Adelaide for Performance & Art Development Agency (PADA), 2017
Whyalla & Boardertown for Country Arts SA, 2017
Griffith Regional Theatre, 17-21 April 2018
Wagga Wagga Civic Theatre, 24-28 April 2018
Main image ©Jamie Williams
Previous Tour
April, 2018
CREDITS
Co-creators Lee Wilson, Mirabelle Wouters
Performers Brock Horneman (BMX) Antek Marciniec (parkour), Kathryn Puie (dancer), Marnie Palomares (dancer), Aimee Massie (skater), Adam Haydec (skater)
Composer/Musician John Irish
Producer Harley Stumm for Intimate Spectacle
& AVAILABLE TO TOUR IN 2019...
1 week residency
1 or 2 public performances
Fee for week $23,000
If you are interested in touring get in contact!
Arts on Tour
02 8038 1880
touring@artsontour.com.au
Arts on Tour is based in Redfern NSW and we respectfully acknowledge the Gadigal people as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the unceded land on which we work.
As we tour artists and productions across these vast lands, we pay our respect to all First Nations Elders, past, present and future.
We celebrate their continuing connection and contribution to culture, country and community, and thank all First Nations peoples for their wisdom in caring for the land, the sky, the rivers and the sea.