The Drover's Wives
Finalist – 2006 Helpmann Awards – Best Original Score – Iain Grandage
Finalist – 2006 Australian Dance Awards – Outstanding Performance by a Female Dancer – Claudia Alessi
Finalist – 2006 Western Australian Dance Awards – Outstanding Achievement in Choreography
Winner – 2006 Western Australian Dance Awards – Award for Dance Film Technology within Dance - Ashley de Prazer/dashvisual
Dance Australia Critic Survey 2006 - Best New Work (Rita Clarke, Naomi Millett),
Finalist – 2006 Australian Dance Awards – Outstanding Performance by a Female Dancer – Claudia Alessi
Finalist – 2006 Western Australian Dance Awards – Outstanding Achievement in Choreography
Winner – 2006 Western Australian Dance Awards – Award for Dance Film Technology within Dance - Ashley de Prazer/dashvisual
Dance Australia Critic Survey 2006 - Best New Work (Rita Clarke, Naomi Millett),
Most interesting Australian Group (Rita Clarke)
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Devised and Directed: Sally Richardson
Original Score: Iain Grandage
Lighting and Set Design: Andrew Lake
Costume Design: Zoe Atkinson
Video Design: Ashley De Prazer
Choreographed and Performed by: Claudia Alessi, Felicity Bott, Shannon Bott
Jane Diamond, Rachel Hare, Katrina Lazaroff & Danielle Micich.
Original Score: Iain Grandage
Lighting and Set Design: Andrew Lake
Costume Design: Zoe Atkinson
Video Design: Ashley De Prazer
Choreographed and Performed by: Claudia Alessi, Felicity Bott, Shannon Bott
Jane Diamond, Rachel Hare, Katrina Lazaroff & Danielle Micich.
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The Drover’s Wives is a powerful visual performance that blends live music, video and photography, with contemporary dance to create a contemporary ’imagining’ of Australia fused with ideas of, location, isolation, celebration and occupation.
The Drover’s Wives is a powerful visual performance that blends live music, video and photography, with contemporary dance to create a contemporary ’imagining’ of Australia fused with ideas of, location, isolation, celebration and occupation.
As the sun sets out on a property, somewhere near town, the ‘ghost wives’ appear, and weave their story telling magic to an original music score composed and played live by award winning composer Iain Grandage.
The Drover’s Wives is a riveting re-telling of the Australian classic tale ‘The Drover’s Wife’ by Henry Lawson. Evocative visual imagery of the Australian bush landscape at it’s most breathtaking accompanies this stunning performance event.
After it’s critically acclaimed sell-out world premiere season at 2006 Perth International Arts Festival, the work was presented in 2007 to sell out audiences at the 9th China Shanghai International Artrs Festival and the 5th Beijing Dance Festival.
The Drover’s Wives available for touring from 2009
Sally Richardson’s The Drover’s Wives is a knockout..You could laud it for it’s polished production and fine design: Zoe Atkinson’s costumes; Andrew Lake’s set and lighting; Ashley de Prazer and Dank Micich ‘s video design;and Iain Grandage’s music..They all create vivid, beautiful and evocative images that could only suggest the Australian outback, but more than that, the show touches the heart.
(Rita Clarke, The Australian)
"The Drover’s Wives; a groundbreaking world premiere…Steamworks under Sally Richardson’s expert direction proves itself up to the task. In collaboration with her talented team, she has created a multi-layered synergy or music, dance, adapted text and visuals that provides a compelling insight into our past - and present cultures….a stunningly performed and perfectly realised work of art…"
(Naomi Millet, The West Australian)
Please check out our performance excerpt from the Majestic Theatre in Shanghai on You Tube (The Drover's Wives) www.youtube.com/v/caaITxFbAos
For further information, including detailed Touring Technical Specificiations contact us: info@steamworks.net.au