FERTILE GROUND
Ashleigh Musk | Michael Smith
Choreography and Performance
Anna Whitaker
Sound Design
Jenni Large
Touring Performer
Liesel Zink
Dramaturgy
Daniele Constance
Access and Inclusion Consultant
Lauren Watson + Rachael Missingham
Access + Inclusion Consultants
Jessica Palfrey
Costume Design
Chloe Ogilvie
Lighting Design
Photography
Pierce Eldridge (Hero Image)
Jade Ellis
Ivan Trigo Miras
Videography
Jorge Serra
Choreography and Performance
Anna Whitaker
Sound Design
Jenni Large
Touring Performer
Liesel Zink
Dramaturgy
Daniele Constance
Access and Inclusion Consultant
Lauren Watson + Rachael Missingham
Access + Inclusion Consultants
Jessica Palfrey
Costume Design
Chloe Ogilvie
Lighting Design
Photography
Pierce Eldridge (Hero Image)
Jade Ellis
Ivan Trigo Miras
Videography
Jorge Serra
We are here to witness our failing paradise.
Suspended in time, vulnerable bodies navigate a forest of cement, imprinting brick to body. In this manufactured oasis, we observe the fragility of the human body beating alongside our persistence to conquer, outlive and survive in the face of crisis.
Landscapes shift, micro cityscapes rise and crumble, as audience and performers move through avalanches of decay, gritty transformations that reveal spaces for hope and action.
Care and burden. Weight and weightlessness. How do we care for what we have inherited?
With vivid choreography, Fertile Ground manipulates space, sound and a brutalist pile of concrete bricks in this ground-breaking participatory performance.
More info at www.fertileground.live
︎https://vimeo.com/621148744
PERFORMANCE HISTORY
2022
MONA FOMA
launceston & nipaluna/hobart
2021
spring.loaded.dance festival
mparntwe/alice springs
Metro Arts
meanjin/brisbane
DEVELOPMENT HISTORY
Metro Arts
Dancenorth
LGI at WXYZ Studios
HOTA, Home of the Arts
Ausdance QLD
Australasian Dance Collective
2022
MONA FOMA
launceston & nipaluna/hobart
2021
spring.loaded.dance festival
mparntwe/alice springs
Metro Arts
meanjin/brisbane
DEVELOPMENT HISTORY
Metro Arts
Dancenorth
LGI at WXYZ Studios
HOTA, Home of the Arts
Ausdance QLD
Australasian Dance Collective
‘The scraping, brittle inflexibility of the blocks contrasted dramatically with the sinuous ease of the dancers’ bodies, even when still. Whether serpent or statue, the flesh with its subtle, supple, shifting, breathing, pulsing, sweating, dripping liveness suggested silk and marble and never the unyielding unresponsiveness of solid concrete.’
- Robert Jarman, Artshub
Fertile Ground has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.
Fertile Ground was developed with Dancenorth in 2020, supported by LGI through a studio residency at WXYZ studios, HOTA, Home of the Art and through an Ausdance QLD and Australiasian Dance Collective Four Walls Residency and an Ausdance QLD Public Space and Participation Residency.