Director & Choreographer: Phillip Adams
Dancers: 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 and Keely Wood-Hill
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
Stage Manager: Yolanda Box
Assistant Stage Manager: Lucy Christiansen
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.
FOUNTAIN
Dates
June 5th-11th 2025
Martyn Myer Arena
Presented in Rising Festival
Photos by Gregory Lorenzutti
