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.”
The university of melbourne fine arts
Link to website and trailer