Image: Eelin Chea
Grasslands was simply stunning... there were moments of perfection in the gathering of ideas, stories, movements.
Simon Sapin
GRASSLANDS
A SOCIAL AND ECOLOGICAL DIG THROUGH TIME
Staged on a hill of native grasses in Clunes, Victoria
28th - 29th November 2014
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GRASSLANDS team:
concept, director, voices: Rebecca Russell concept, design: Ken Evans dancer: Janette Hoe cellist/ composer: Kristin Rule video art/ projection: Dotahn Caspi lighting design: Philip Lethlean costume design: Mel Drummond wardrobe assistant: Janette Weatherspoon ecologist: Dale Tonkinson performer/collaborator: Emmily Caspi roustabout 1: John Pain roustabout 2: Andrew Pearson roustabout 3: Andre Gersbeck farmer: Wayne Glennie photographer and local connections: Christine Rowe stage manager: Bec Anderson creative producer: Verity Higgins |
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Kids: Bodhi Anderson-Barbey Jude Evans Mhiya Fogas Lulu Gersbeck Toa Green Hunter Knowles Elly Wilson Kodi Wilson Kid’s Supervisor: Tracy Bourne Thanks so much for such a special evening.
Congratulations to you and Ken, and all. We all were mesmerised and on the journey. Martin Paten |
Voices:
Jamie Andrews Dale Tonkinson Andrew Blaszak Dolly Torney Kate Featherstone Jan Turner Steve Greenwood Yvonne Yates June Johnsone Peter Keller Bryon Powell Christine Rowe Enid Steart |
GRASSLANDS
PROGRAM NOTES
28th - 29th November 2014
Welcome to GRASSLANDS.
Creating this work has been an extraordinary journey of discovery. We have delved into this beautiful part of the world that has been our home for 5 years. We have discovered a rich, complex and beautiful landscape with a long and deep history. We have also been priviledged to get to know many people who also call Clunes home, some for many generations and some, like us, who are still discovering this place and it’s people. We would like to thank the Dja Dja Wurrung First Nations people for welcoming us to their country. Elders of the Dja Dja Wurrung community and their forebears are the traditional owners of this land and have been custodians for many centuries and have performed age old ceremonies of celebration, initiation and renewal. We acknowledge their living culture and their unique role in the life of this region. We are honoured to share this ancient landscape.
Many travel lines have been made across the Grasslands landscape to Clunes to create this show. It has been a truly collaborative process and without the genius of the artists and locals involved it would not have happened. The people listed below have gone above and beyond the call of duty to create what you see tonight and we thank them!
Ecologist Dale Tonkinson has been our Grasslands guide, his knowledge and passion for the complex ecology of the grasslands, of which we are a part, has been inspiring and given us the core of the show, and our grassy mound!
We hope you enjoy the show, which we would like to think of as a snapshot of what this little corner of the Grasslands of the Victorian Volcanic Plains have seen.
Rebecca Russell and Ken Evans
Creating this work has been an extraordinary journey of discovery. We have delved into this beautiful part of the world that has been our home for 5 years. We have discovered a rich, complex and beautiful landscape with a long and deep history. We have also been priviledged to get to know many people who also call Clunes home, some for many generations and some, like us, who are still discovering this place and it’s people. We would like to thank the Dja Dja Wurrung First Nations people for welcoming us to their country. Elders of the Dja Dja Wurrung community and their forebears are the traditional owners of this land and have been custodians for many centuries and have performed age old ceremonies of celebration, initiation and renewal. We acknowledge their living culture and their unique role in the life of this region. We are honoured to share this ancient landscape.
Many travel lines have been made across the Grasslands landscape to Clunes to create this show. It has been a truly collaborative process and without the genius of the artists and locals involved it would not have happened. The people listed below have gone above and beyond the call of duty to create what you see tonight and we thank them!
Ecologist Dale Tonkinson has been our Grasslands guide, his knowledge and passion for the complex ecology of the grasslands, of which we are a part, has been inspiring and given us the core of the show, and our grassy mound!
We hope you enjoy the show, which we would like to think of as a snapshot of what this little corner of the Grasslands of the Victorian Volcanic Plains have seen.
Rebecca Russell and Ken Evans
Image Gallery
Images by Eelin Chea, Gillian Howell and Max Williams
Artwork: Sahm Keily