Image: Willem Kingma
ALTER STATE
CAMP LIVE (come and make performance)
SAT 08 - SUN 09 OCT
9:30 AM – 5:00 PM
FREE, INVITATION ONLY
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Age suitability: CAMP is recommended for participants aged 16 and over.
Access: Auslan interpretation and audio description will be provided if a participant requests in their enrolment. The venue is fully wheelchair-accessible.
CAMP is Back to Back Theatre’s delightfully ruthless theatre and art-making workshops delivered in person and online.
CAMP gives participants the opportunity to work alongside Back to Back’s ensemble of actors, while experiencing the practices of a diverse range of contemporary artists.
CAMP at Alter State will be delivered in a combination of online and in-person workshops. This is the event page for the in-person workshops.
In-person workshops will include young people from Victoria’s leading youth ensembles from Platform Arts, St Martin’s Youth Arts, and Western Edge Youth Arts.
This is an invitation only gathering.
CAMP International is online and has open attendance, so please join from wherever you are!
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Saturday 8 October, 9.30am - 5pm
Rawcus
Theatre
Rawcus is an award-winning ensemble of 12 performers with diverse minds, bodies and imaginations.
Miranda Nation with Theatre of Speed
Filmmaking
Miranda Nation is an award-winning filmmaker who has combined her passions for story-telling and social justice on diverse projects. Theatre of Speed is Back to Back Theatre’s point of intersection between established and emerging artists and is a crucible for new ideas and inter-disciplinary practice.
Madeline Stewart
Jumping on the Comedy Bandwagon
Madeleine Stewart is a stand-up comedian and the creator of Crips & Creeps, an accessible and inclusive comedy club in Sydney.
Sunday 9 October, 9.30am - 5pm
Infinity Ensemble with Tom Middleditch
Generating Performance From Identity
Platform Arts’ infinity ensemble is a group of artists aged between 11 and 22 years who make performances exploring identity, the internet, horses, cats, illustration, vintage clothing and gothic literature. Tom Middleditch is the Artistic Director of A_tistic, a writer/director/performer, and a neurodiversity and inclusion consultant.
Restless Dance Theatre
Dance Theatre
Restless Dance Theatre is Australia’s leading creator of loud, strong, original dance theatre by dancers with and without disability.
Manasha Anjali
Storytelling
Manisha Anjali is a writer and artist, and is the founder of Neptune, a research and documentation platform for dreams, visions and hallucinations.
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Based in the Victorian regional centre of Geelong, Back to Back Theatre is widely recognised as an Australian theatre company of national and international significance. The company is driven by an ensemble of actors who are perceived to have intellectual disabilities and is considered one of Australia’s most important cultural exporters.
We contend our operation as a theatre company is beyond expectation of possibility: an affirmation for human potential. The company’s existence contributes to the richness and diversity of Australian life and palpably projects Geelong, Victoria and Australia to the world as innovative, sophisticated and dynamic.
Back to Back Theatre has received 22 national and international awards including the International Ibsen award, a Helpmann Award for Best Australian Work, an Edinburgh International Festival Herald Angel Critics’ Award, two Age Critics’ Awards, a New York Bessie and the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Group Award for our long-standing contribution to the development of Australian theatre.
Images: CAMP Live at Alter State, Kate Disher-Quill.
