Musical composition
Dreamland premiere (original score)
Dreamland premiere: Part of 'If these halls could talk' (Eureka Hall, 23/11/2016 - 10/12/2016)
2016
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Abstract
Live Music Score consisting of four original works written specifically for the performance by members of the Ensemble and a number of licensed non original music excerpts.
This work is the live Soundtrack to the acclaimed original Theatre Production by NORPA “Dreamland” in 2016. The soundtrack to “Dreamland” is a series of music cues performed live by an instrumental ensemble that perform both as theatrical characters and musicians performing the Soundtrack onstage. The site specific theatre work explores themes relating to culture, community and place making in white Australian Regional Culture.
Dreamland is a commissioned theatre work created by NORPA using stories collected from the indigenous and nonindigenous history of the Northern Rivers. Dreamland received 30k funding as part of Arts NSW If these Halls could Talk Program.
Details
- Title
- Dreamland premiere (original score)
- Creators
- Shenzo Gregory (Musical Director)Ben Walsh (Music/Band)Barry Hill (Music/Band) - Southern Cross UniversityJamie Birrell (Music/Band)
- Contributors
- Julian Louis (Director)Janis Balodis (Author)Phil Blackman (Performer)Darcy Grant (Performer)Katia Molino (Performer)Toni Scanlan (Performer)Kirk Page (Choreographer)Karl Johnson (Lighting designer)William Kutana (Costume designer)Marisa Snow (Producer)Kate McDowell (Contributor)Edward Horne (Contributor)
- Event
- Dreamland premiere: Part of 'If these halls could talk' (Eureka Hall, 23/11/2016 - 10/12/2016)
- Comment
Created in association with Arts Northern Rivers’ If These Halls Could Talk project, and in collaboration with the Eureka Hall Committee and community, Dreamland is a time capsule of local history, characters and ghosts that have frequented Eureka Hall since it was built in 1906. The hall has been the gathering place for community meetings, gala balls, send offs for local boys going to distant wars, hippie invasions and waves of tree-changers.
Dreamland is a celebration of the dance of life, in all its mystery. Sometimes quick, sometimes slow, elegantly together or crazy alone. Combining physical theatre, song, dance, humour and drama Dreamland is full of the adventurous, innovative and entertaining hallmarks of NORPA original works.
Local performer Phil Blackman and Sydney based actress Katia Molino, who both performed in Railway Wonderland are joined by acclaimed actress Toni Scanlon (best known for her role as Helen Blakemore in the Australian TV police drama Water Rats but also an award winning stage actress in All My Sons and King Tide) and acrobat Darcy Grant who is also a founding member of internationally acclaimed contemporary circus company Circa. Musicians Shenzo Gregory, Ben Walsh and Barry Hill provide a live music score featuring original music and live versions of Iconic songs 20th Century compositions by Pat ballard Jimmy Hendrix, The Mammas and the Pappas and others.
- Identifiers
- 2620; 991012820442402368
- Academic Unit
- Creative Arts; Faculty of Business, Law and Arts; School of Arts and Social Sciences
- Resource Type
- Musical composition