Photo:  Doug Spowart

Ten Trenches

Ten Trenches was a cross-sector collaboration between artists and river scientists at Bundanon Trust in the Shoalhaven Region of NSW.  I led a team of artists in a creative development that shadowed the science research of my brother Tim Cohen, a fluvial geomorphologist studying the impacts of sea level rise on flood behaviour of the Shoalhaven River.  Artists:  Cecil McLeod & Doonoch Dancers, Katia Molino, Kraig Grady, Craig Walsh, Sydney Bouhaniche & Terumi Narushima. IMAGES:  Doug Spowart
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Theatre Kantanka

As one of the founding members of Theatre Kantanka, during 1996-2006 I worked as Co-Artistic Director and Producer for this independent company.  With a focus on productions in non-traditional venues Kantanka toured shows nationally.  More here…
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Samuel Dark’s Dinner Hour

I wrote, produced and directed this sellout season of Circus Dinner Cabaret which was set in some old railway workshops in the city of Newcastle. Immediately adjacent once stood the premises of local identity, providore and ice-man, Samuel Dark.
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Fire Water 2010

Following the massive success of interpreting local stories in interesting ways with Fire Water 2009 (see below), this was the second of these large scale spectacles on Sydney Harbour as a feature of Vivid Sydney.  See the colonisation of Australia through an Indian-Australian schoolgirl’s eyes…

Fire Water 2009