The world has ended. The only survivors are ORITO, a hyper-realistic Bunraku puppet, and KUKA, an industrial robot. Apparently, without memories or context, they attempt to construct a new reality. They search for meaning in a ruined world where nothing seems to remain. Digging through the rubble of sound and memory, they try to reconstruct…
Stephanie Pan’s The Art of Doing Nothing: a feminist manifesto is about listening to yourself and the world around you. About saving power to explode with power. It is not about doing nothing. It is a proposal for navigating choice in a chaotic world. Celebrating qualities like intuition, vulnerability and emotionality, it is a vision…
The Art of Doing Nothing: a feminist manifesto is about listening to yourself and the world around you. About saving power to explode with power. It is not about doing nothing. It is a proposal for navigating choice and making sense of your own place in a chaotic world; to not always swim against the current,…
A procession and a dog In a theatre, various people come together for a memorial service. As is in keeping with funeral tradition, each individual has a different memory, image or idea of the person being commemorated. After all, the deceased person fulfilled many different roles and carried many unseen experiences with him. Gradually, multiple…
One-woman opera by Igor C Silva, with libretto by Aaron Landsman, exploring the shifty language of truth. Performed by Stephanie Pan and Ensemble Klang.
Arbitrary Failures – a new collaborative video artwork by Madhouse Heaven, Stephanie Pan and Ensemble Klang
Studio recording of Rosa Ensemble’s large scale theater performance from 2016. Texts from Olivier Sacks, Dermot Healy, T.S. Eliot and Walt Whitman on music by Daniel Cross. In chorus and solo, sung and spoken, Akasha encompasses all. “all goes onward and outward and nothing collapses”
By some form of accident Bridget was Miss Junior Showgirl at the Kyabram Show circa 1985. This is where this begins. A work about parading, grief, survival and beauty. A new module in development ‘Entertaining A Small Place’ was presented as part of ‘Watch US Dance’ at University of Salford on November 8, 2019. Performed…
An immersive multisensory performance that is part documentary, part science fiction, part ritual: How to survive a falling lift, a mother’s story of her newborn’s urgency to feed, how to repot a plant and an account of the person who survived the greatest free fall in history all become metaphors for a state of emergency.…
