Mobile States

The Mobile States program is an initiative of the Theatre Board, Dance Board, Inter-Arts Office of the Australia Council for the Arts.

Mobile States provides touring opportunities for contemporary artists and small companies, taking cutting-edge arts to audiences around Australia. The initiative aims to facilitate a national discussion about contemporary performance and to foster creative exchange. Presenting venues include Performance Space at CarriageWorks, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Brisbane Powerhouse, Salamanca Arts Centre and Arts House.

AUGUST 2012 Program:

RRAMP is a performance band featuring Christine Johnston, Lisa O’Neill and Peter Nelson. Through a hybrid of music, dance, story and animation these three characters lead the audience through a musical symphony that charters the journey and mind of a lead singer and her two unlikely band members.

“It is at once mesmerising and shocking. But don’t let me spoil it for you. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry and you’ll ROCK!” – Carol Lloyd

PIN DROP is part documentary, part urban thriller, Pin Drop explores the phenomenon of fear in our day-to-day lives. Pin Drop uses multiple performance languages to investigate our collective responses to real or perceived threats and the way these threats play on the mind and in the body.

“One of the most extraordinarily involving and rewarding theatrical experiences. Unforgettable. Go.” – Geoffrey Williams, Stage Whispers

THRASHING WITHOUT LOOKING is an innovative immersive live experience using video goggles and performance. The project questions social power and human relationships and asks the audience to question their own agency within a mediated space.

“The whole effect is disorientating, tender, a little scary, and utterly thrilling.”

THE DEMOCRATIC SET offers a purpose built set – an empty box – and invites participants to explore the principles of democracy through movement, performance, live art or installation. 16 sec contributions are captured on film, edited together and screened to the contributing community.