The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) is rounding up 2017 with two performances to entertain a wide audience.
In an Aboriginal performance, David Milroy's 'Windmill Baby' will play at the Roundhouse Theatre.
With the poetry of a campfire storyteller and the comedy of a great yarn, comes this tale set on an abandoned cattle station in the surreal Kimberley landscape of azure skies and red dirt.
Maymay has come back to the pastoral station she worked on as a domestic half a century ago. As she beavers away around the old washing line, she recalls the season of love and revenge which swept through and turned this dusty collection of bungalows into the scene of an achingly beautiful tragedy.
The show premiered in Perth in 2005 and has since been performed all over the world. Graduate Eva Grace Mullaley returns to WAAPA to direct this Australian classic.
'Verge' at the Geoff Gibbs Theatre combines two original contemporary works and a timeless ballet classic, celebrating the skill and artistry of the graduating students as they prepare to embark on their professional careers.
This performance is choreographed by Richard Cilli, Brooke Leeder, Kim McCarthy and Danielle Hunt.
Alumnus Richard Cilli, whose talent saw him accepted into the Sydney Dance Company (SDC) on graduation, won a 2010 Helpmann Award for his performance in Rafael Bonachela’s 'We Unfold'. After a break of two years, during which he danced with Sweden’s K. Kvarnström & Co and choreographed for the Australian Ballet, Cilli is back dancing with SDC, with his original work 'Hinterland'.
Perth-based Brooke Leeder won the 2014 WA Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Choreography for her work 'Mechanic', and was commissioned to create a new work for the 2015 launch season of Co3 Youth Company.
Rounding out the programme, WAAPA lecturers Kim McCarthy and Danielle Hunt re-imagine Marius Petipa’s whimsical 'Don Quixote Suite', based on Miguel de Cervantes’ acclaimed novel.
