FOUNTAIN

Cast

Rikia Bell
Leyla Boz
Mia Canton
Sarah Ceraso
Flynn Dakis
Grace Galimberti Espinoza
Natalie Hardy
Jesper Harrison
Belinda Hunt
Indi Mcqueen
Bronte Paruit
Kitana Price
Toni Stathopoulos
Ava Sugden
Cassidy Thomson
Natalie Trainor
Angelique Van Kempen
Isabel Walsh
Keely Wood-Hill

Creative Team

Director & Choreographer
Phillip Adams

Composer
Jordan Gilmour

Set Designer
Nethmi Oshadi Gunasekera+

Costume Designer
Isobel McCauley

Lighting Designer
Andrew Thompson

Sound Designer
Jett Manzie

Vision Designer
Amy Todd

Assistant Vision Designer
Lochlan Maher

Dramaturg
Cam Appleby

Production Team

Stage Manager
Yolanda Box

Assistant Stage Manager
Lucy Christiansen

Workshop Head of Department
Georgia Formosa

Workshop Head of Department (Props)
Wing Hei Natalie Lau

Workshop Assistants
Grace Hicks
Eli Ismail
Melody Keys
Grace Lucas
Georgia Maynier
Anneka van der Velde
Toby Vasilić
Zac Waddington

Senior Costumier
Lindsay Gerhardt

Costume Manager
Sarah Haines

Costume Assistants
Megan Black
Astrid Brenchley

Technical Manager
Jackson Passlow

Head Electrician / Lighting Programmer
August Johnson

Deputy Electrician
Iris Donaldson

Sound Technician
Kirsten Drake

Professional Staff

Artistic Operations & Planning Manager
Abe Watson

Production Operations Manager
Andy Turner

Senior Producers
Ang Cuy & Alex Duffy

Production Coordinator
Rex Lockyer

Costume Supervisor
Elizabeth Maisey

Workshop Supervisors
Taylor Chen & El Lyons-Dawson

Workshop Technicians
Tait Adams, Al Brill, Charlie Craft, Mungo Mckenzie, Jack Milne, Em Van Dyk

Production Photographer
Gregory Lorenzutti

Third year Bachelor of Fine Arts (Production) student
Second year Master of Production Design (Stage) student

Academic Staff

Head of Dance
Derrick Brown-Appenzeller

Head of Design & Production
Anna Cordingley

Design and Production Academic Consultants
Nathan Burmeister, Peter Darby, Jeremy Ford, Jen Langford

Dance Academic Staff
Phillip Adams, Megan Beckwith, Gareth Belling, Carol Brown, Derrick Brown-Appenzeller, Nicole Corea, Julie Minaai, Rheannan Port, Anna Smith, Kialea-Nadine Williams

Design and Production Academic Staff
Kris Bird, Jo Briscoe, Marco Cher-Gibard, Dr Emily Collett, Anna Cordingley, Martyn Coutts, Jo Evans, Dale Ferguson, John Ford, Nell Hansen, Amanda Hitten, Lisa Mibus, Lisa Osborn, Professor Richard Roberts, Leon Salom, Matt Scott, Christina Smith, Jethro Woodward

“FOUNTAIN explores the psycho-physical world of auditions through a queer interpretation of 1980s classics including Alan Parker’s FAME (1980) and Jane Fonda’s ‘Workout’ (1982). Exploring themes of repetition, trauma euphoria, exhaustion, endurance and fierce competition, dancers subject themselves to absurd, childish, and fantastical tasks. How far will they go? FOUNTAIN captures the aspirations, struggles, and triumphs of dancers seeking to gain a foothold in the ‘industry’ whilst holding onto a Utopian drive ‘to live forever’. Scored for prepared piano, theremin, bells and recorded retro synth pop, the soundscape evokes both an eerie cinematic atmosphere, and a manic Jane Fonda-esque aerobics class.”

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Link to website and trailer