Created & Performed by Alice Cummins
Direction by Nikki Heywood
terra emerged from the imminent ferocity of fire burning all along the east coast of Australia in 2020. As I experimented with the paper, the emergent sounds evoked a threatening sense of danger and I sensed the incremental tectonic shifts that eventually create seismic shifts in the earth’s crust. Millennia pass and the earth splits open, mountains erupt, and oceans deliver tsunamis. The speed with which these events happen bears little relationship to the geological pace with which they have accrued momentum. The power behind them reflects this huge elemental force of nature. Underneath the paper I am reminded of Sunday mornings in winter making cubbies with my blankets – the intimacy, light and secrecy. The memory has the ‘glow’ of a William Blake painting. These paradoxical elements exist lightly together in my imagination – the tenderness of early life memories and the fury and savagery of the fires and the agony of the earth. terra reflects this critical time in our living world.
‘She moved with the kind of felt precision that could change the meaning of the space around her. She touched the floor and suddenly it was alive. The experience was pure and electrifying’ (Erik Jensen, Editor-in-chief, Schwartz Media, January 2022).
Production: Veronica Bolzon
Lighting Design: Bosco Shaw
Lighting Technician: Peter Young
Videography: Cobie Orger
Videography & Images: Emma Fishwick
Creative Companion & Production: Paea Leach
FOH: Jacqui Otago
Dates: 18, 19 & 20 January 2024
Time: 7.30pm
Holmes à Court Gallery @ no.10
10 Douglas Street
Gooyaman | West Perth
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