Folding

In a quiet moment, a gaze at your navel, an involving task or story told, you notice something as if it’s a first encounter. Something has changed, memories are archived, your body has not forgotten. Sometimes you just need to be shown. stagejuice presents Folding, an intimate participatory installation with origami.

stagejuice has been invited to premiere Folding at the Crack Theatre Festival in Newcastle, NSW. The work invites audiences to participate in a one-on-one lesson in making a traditional origami model while also engaging in meditation, reflection and discussion.

Imagine stepping into a hidden, mysterious space to see an elaborate clutter of origami hanging, illuminated by soft, old-world lighting. You sit with me at a small table, surrounded by the hanging models, to fold our own. We exchange sentiments, stories and secrets, and at the end, we exchange origami – yours is to add to the quirky sculpture and mine is a keepsake for you.

Each origami lesson will be incredibly unique for each audience member.

CREATIVE TEAM
Conception, direction & design Katy Green Loughrey
Performer Khat Reid
Video Artist David Buckley
Sound Designer Gideon Payten-Griffiths
Lighting Designer and Technician Marc Chee
Outside Eyes David Buckley and Gideon Payten-Griffiths

WHY WE ARE MAKING THIS WORK
At the core of the work are questions around neglect. While a space is created for meditative and calming action, the participant and performer will begin to consider the things about themselves that they put to the side, overlook or don’t even notice. As they fold, they realise their hands are symbolic of this neglect and surprisingly; there is so much more to discover about them.

stagejuice are interested in flexing and blurring the boundaries between performer and audience. We will create a space for conversation, revelation and reflection. We are interested in the intimate connection strangers can have and how personal the conversation can be while sharing a mutual experience. For the last few years, questions around intimacy, perception, vulnerability and humanity have been central to stagejuice's practice.

WHY WE NEED YOUR HELP
To present this installation as beautifully and delicately as we can and to show it to audiences for the first time, we need to raise funds to cover the costs of materials (paper, printing, fabrics...), lighting and prop hire, and travel allowance. We plan to be as resourceful as we can, however a small budget of $850 would really go a long way.

By reaching Crack Theatre Festival, you will not just be helping us present our work to new audiences, you will be assisting the evolution of a larger stagejuice work Smoke + Mirrors (currently in development) in which Folding, in some shape, will be part of. Crack will provide a forum for us to experiment with and consolidate the ideas in Folding and its place in a larger context.

Please join our team by donating to the project and help us get to Crack Theatre Festival!

BACKGROUND INFO
KATY GREEN is a performance maker, curator and producer with a particular interest in interdisciplinary arts. She is the Artistic Director of stagejuice and the founder/curator for freshly squeezed, an annual performance lab for emerging artists. stagejuice credits include curator Looking at a Blackbird (Surry Hills Library 2011), curator/producer freshly squeezed (2012-2010), curator/performer history of the future (History Council of NSW, 2010), producer/performer in the shadows (PACT 2009) and deviser ball (Liveworks 2008). In 2012, Katy produced the premiere of Matthew Day's Intermission and commenced the development of her new major work Disaffected. She is also an Associate Producer at Performing Lines and holds a Bachelor of Performance (Honours) at UWS and a Diploma of Photography.

Born and based in Sydney, DAVID BUCKLEY studied at the ACTT and has been part of stagejuice performance collective since 2009. His physical theatre credits include PACT Theatre’s The Lotus Eaters, Deborah Pollard’s Blue Print and stagejuice’s in the shadows. In 2009 he directed his first major work, Gallery, produced in the Artslab program at Shopfront and in 2010 he toured nationally with Monkey Baa/Siren Theatre Co’s production, FOX. Last year he performed in Deborah Pollard’s Within and Without, String’s Attached’s submission for the Underbelly Arts Festival 2011, OJO, created a work in stagejuice’s freshly squeezed 2011 program, and most recently worked with Julia Landrey on A Love In Story at the Peat’s Ridge Festival. He is a Co-Curator for freshly squeezed in 2012.

GIDEON PAYTEN-GRIFFITHS is an interdisciplinary artist in theatre, dance, music, film, installation, fashion and costume. His training includes with University of Sydney, Suzuki Music, De Quincey Co, ATYP, Actors Centre Australia and imPACT Ensemble. His work includes for Performance Space, PACT Theatre, Pacitti Company, SHH Productions, De Quincey Co., Short+Sweet, Peats Ridge, Next Wave, Crack Theatre Festival, Sydney Fringe, VIVID Sydney, Brisbane Festival Under the Radar, Explosive Festival Bremen and with stagejuice; in the shadows, freshly squeezed 2010 & 2011 and The History of the Future and History Week 2011 Launch (History Council of NSW). He is a Co-Curator for freshly squeezed in 2012.

MARC CHEE made a small jump from being a musician in theatre to a technician in 2006. Since then, he's worked in Sound Design, Stage Management, Lighting Design and Production Management. He's spent some time being a Production Manager, Set Designer and Lighting Designer for both Curious Works and stagejuice. He is currently working on a PhD in Human Computer Cooperation with Game Playing Artificial Intelligence and has a strong interest in Computer Graphics Visualsation and Interaction technology.

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