Arts Centre Melbourne and Back to Back Theatre present
8 & 9 October | Online
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CAMP International is Back to Back Theatre’s delightfully ruthless theatre and art-making workshops delivered online.
CAMP gives participants the opportunity to work alongside Back to Back’s ensemble of actors, while experiencing the practices of a diverse range of contemporary artists.
CAMP at Alter State will be delivered in a combination of online and in person workshops.
In person workshops will include young people from Victoria’s leading youth ensembles from ILBIJERRI Ensemble, Platform Arts, St Martin’s Youth Arts, and Western Edge Youth Arts.
For CAMP International, please join from wherever you are!
Saturday 8 October
10:30am – 12:30pm
Jackie Sheppard
Body Centred Storytelling
Jackie Sheppard (Tagalaka Clan Group) is a First Nations mixed-medium creative who is driven by First Nations lived experiences, spirituality, Cultural practice and body-centred creative practice.
2pm – 4pm
Jo Randerson
Performance/Theatre
Jo Randerson is a Pōneke-based multi-media artist and Artistic Director of Barbarian Productions, specialising in poetic and political story-telling with a focus on joy.
www.barbarian.co.nz
Sunday 9 October
10:30am – 12:30pm
Andy Jackson
Writing
Andy Jackson is a poet who writes about difference and embodiment.
2pm – 4pm
Robert Croft and Leisa Shelton
Movement and Mark Making
Robert Croft is a visual artist and a member of Back to Back’s Theatre of Speed for more than 15 years. Leisa Shelton is a performance artist, teacher, mentor, curator and intercultural facilitator.
CAMP at Alter State will be delivered in a combination of online and in-person workshops. This is the event page for the online workshops. The in-person workshops will include young people from Victoria’s leading youth ensembles from Platform Arts, St Martin’s Youth Arts, and Western Edge Youth Arts.
Based in the Victorian regional centre of Geelong, Back to Back Theatre is widely recognised as an Australian theatre company of national and international significance. The company is driven by an ensemble of actors who are perceived to have intellectual disabilities and is considered one of Australia’s most important cultural exporters.
We contend our operation as a theatre company is beyond expectation of possibility: an affirmation for human potential. The company’s existence contributes to the richness and diversity of Australian life and palpably projects Geelong, Victoria and Australia to the world as innovative, sophisticated and dynamic.
Back to Back Theatre has received 22 national and international awards including the International Ibsen award, a Helpmann Award for Best Australian Work, an Edinburgh International Festival Herald Angel Critics’ Award, two Age Critics’ Awards, a New York Bessie and the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Group Award for our long-standing contribution to the development of Australian theatre.
