Memory-Go-Round 2021 - 1st Development
“It’s a comforting, safe, curious, evocative, poetic way of being present in a living and breathing kind of art, with others who are experiencing and witnessing and connecting in their own way, but together as well.”
“I enjoy being involved with sensory stimuli via a bunch of endearing familiar items. I would like more! I feel warm
fuzzies for being invited in to people’s intimate memories through my senses, the unifying effect of one shared item we are all experiencing with our myriad individual memories - Thank you x ”
ABOUT
Welcome to the Memory-Go-Round. We will take you into the memory stories of our artists; from the dressing room to Oliver Twist, through a moment in the car and a feeling in a memory church to the sense of a garden from 5 artists from the VALID/BANH and Yarra community.
We spent a period of 8 sessions sharing an exploration of storytelling and memory through a sensory theatre approach I have been developing over the past three years and finding ways to share and create individual story moments driven by the artists' memories and senses.
The project aims to create a multi-disciplinary, sensory installation & artist presentation where lesser-heard stories are woven and transformed into sensory stories where you, the audience are brought into the memory of the artists, through the connection with the senses.
Written by Zya Kane - Artistic Director
CREDIT
CO-CREATORS & PERFORMERS
Barry Robinson
David Baker
Gerard Langridge
Madeleine Prasad
Tammy Smith
CREATIVE TEAM
Artistic Director & Sensory Theatre Zya Kane
Artistic Collaborator & Film David Hansen
Creative Producer Taka Takiguchi
PRODUCTION TEAM
Set Design Zya Kane
Show Bag Design Courtney Meacham & David Hansen
Video Editing David Hansen
Graphic Design Takashi Takiguchi
CREDITS
Photos above Paul Dunn
Video Editing Daivd Hansen
PRODUCTION HISTORY
1st Development
September 2021
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
City of Yarra
VALID
Your DNA Creative Arts
BANH
Auspicious Arts Project
ImPermanence Productions
SPECIAL THANKS
Melanie Watson | Paul Dunn | Janice Florence | Nilgun Guven | Chelle Snail | Ross Baker | Sue Baker | Diane Ireland | Tracey Langridge | Annette Axen | Jayde Jenkins | VALID’S Performing Arts Peer Action Group Phil Heuzenroeder