PARTNERS
THE PERFORMANCES
- 47 site-specific performances over 30 days and nights
- Activated Iocations scattered through the City
- Many events with audience participation
- 30 artists: EPA and guest artists
- Workshops in ecological performance
- Pop-up performance HUB
- Nature dance film made by members of public
- M47 marked the declaration of Melbourne as a City in 1847
- Dirge March through Swanston St
Events included:
Dancing with Victoria Market shopping trolleys, trailing bones through the CBD, a mystery night time bike ride to a riverside forest performance, a WEAVE comedy, durational performance in a library, a survey of waste at the performance sites, butoh on the Birrarung, and dancing along defunct watercourses among lunchtime crowds. Audiences joined in a sensory walk, a humorous toilet tour with a serious peek into gender history, a blindfold walk in Royal Park grasslands, contemplative conversation in Melbourne Cemetery; a Fitzroy Gardens ‘sound bath’, a fake real estate auction auction and military raid on a miniature village, an Indigenous dance workshop and performance for children.
Photos: Alice Hutchison
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