ELISION ENSEMBLE.
Assistant Director & Production Manager.
Worked on various projects over eight years with Australia’s premier new music ensemble, Elision is an international ’supergroup’ whose 17-strong membership includes some of the world’s leading musicians - they live in Paris, Berlin, Bern, Stuttgart, Cologne, Los Angeles, Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne.
The ensemble is focussed on exploring and expanding musical possibilities; establishing an international reputation through performance of complex and virtuosically challenging aesthetics, a unique instrumentarium and work in cross-disciplinary artforms, providing inspiring models of collaboration and innovation.
the navigator.
A ‘dream’ opera for 5 singers, 16 musicians and electronics with Composer Liza Lim, Director Barrie Kosky and libretto by Patricia Sykes exploring extremity of passion and choices made between annihilation or creation.
Engaged and managed a creative production team to build a new work while in residence at Judith Wright Centre and toured the work.
The Navigator was presented at Brisbane Festival, Melbourne Festival and Chekhov International Theatre Festival, Moscow.
Yuè Lìng Jié (Moon Spirit Feasting)
Chinese ritual street opera for 3 singers and 9 musicians with Composer Lisa Lim, Director Michael Kantor and libretto by Beth Yahp. A shamanistic & zany ride into the worlds of the Moon Goddess Chang-O, the Monkey King and the Queen Mother of the West amidst an invisible audience of hungry ghosts.
Jointly Commissioned by the Adelaide and Melbourne Festivals with support from the Major Festivals Initiative, the Australia Council and Arts Queensland.
Yue Ling Jie was presented Adelaide International Festival of the Arts, Melbourne International Festival of the Arts, Hebbel Theatre Berlin, Zurich Theatre Spektakel, Saitama Arts Centre, Tokyo and Brisbane International Festival of the Arts.
TULP : The BODY PUBLIC
Collaborative work by visual artist Justine Cooper and composer John Rodgers. In 1632, the executed body of a convicted thief was dissected by Dr Nicolaes Tulp, an act graphically recorded in the Rembrandt painting The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp. This painting, where medicine and the visual arts so dramatically intersected inspired TULP-the body public, a fascinating multi-media exploration of the human body, the music of the baroque and contemporary improvisation.
TULP - The body public was presented at Sydney Festival and Brisbane Festival.