We Built This City 2006
Director/Writer
Large-scale industrial site specific performance working with 124 building workers. Audience walked through Scienceworks Museum and saw story telling about the building industry as well as a multi media installation, rock concert and machinery ballet. I choreographed bobcats, front end loaders and a 100 tonne crane to tell a story. I worked with Associate Director Andrea James and composer Mark Seymour. I was employed by Melbourne Worker's Theatre.
Powerfully combines aesthetics, work, and a passionate political commitment. Donna Jackson again demonstrates her ability to extract great effects and power from a performance site.
Helen Thomson The Age Newspaper on 'We Built This City,' 28/4/06
Row 1 Mark Seymour; Row 2 L-R Paula De Angelis, Lucy Beaton, Rebecca Luppton, Hope Downing (Vocalists); Row 3 Adrian MacNamara, John Blaze, Shame Barnford (Guitar); Row 4 Rob van den Enden, George Spagnolo; Row 5 PhilSmart (Bass)
Photographs: Georgia Metaxas
Photo stills: Film: Malcolm McKinnon / DVD: Tony Watts / Parrot Video
Photographs; Ponch Hawkes & Bindi Cole
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