Salamander

Overview

Two artistic visionaries Maxine Doyle and Es Devlin combine forces for an epic new work.

An emergency, The colour red, 
Time to go, Time to wake up
Time to stand up and hold each other
before it is too late
Before there is nothing left
Do we fight and stay?
Do we make a change? Or do we adapt?

A promenade dance-theatre work, Salamander sees a warehouse at Northshore, Brisbane transformed into a fully immersive, climate-fiction dream-like world through light, sound, design, and movement. Es Devlin’s labyrinthian and kinetic sculptures live within a flooded landscape which is inhabited by characters desperate to make a change before it’s too late.

Maxine Doyle – together with a dynamic ensemble of international, national and local dancers, including Australasian Dance Collective, with extraordinary Australian composer and singer Rachael Dease – will bring this world to life with visceral dance, and haunting melodies. 

With lighting by Ben Hughes and costumes by Bruce McKinven, Salamander is a transformative performance experience set in an epic installation created by the legendary Es Devlin.

Credits

LEAD CREATIVES

Maxine Doyle – Director and Choreographer

Es Devlin – Stage Sculpture 


DESIGN TEAM 

Rachael Dease – Composer and Sound Designer
Ben Hughes – Lighting Designer

Bruce McKinven – Costume Designer

Ellie Wintour – Associate Designer (Es Devlin Studio)

Rozina Suliman – Associate Designer 


ENSEMBLE

Rachael Dease – Vocalist
May Greenberg – Dancer
Paul Zivkovich – Dancer


ADC
Amy Hollingsworth – Artistic Director

Gabrielle Nankivell – Dancer/Rehearsal Director

Jag Popham – Dancer

Jack Lister – Dancer

Harrison Elliott – Dancer
Lilly King – Dancer

Chase Clegg-Robinson – Dancer 


CONTENT CREDITS

Arthur Kent – Composer, The End of The World

Sylvia Dee – Lyricist, The End of The World

Giuseppe Verdi – Composer, Requiem Dies Irae

Joy Harjo – Author - Perhaps The World Ends Here 
Hector Harkness - Research

Supported by

This project is supported through the Giving Program by Tim Fairfax AC & Gina Fairfax AC, Carolyn Vincent - The Ubuntu Foundation and Cass & Ian George.

This project is supported by the British Council.