Breakout Makes: August Showing

Details

When: Friday, August 30, 3:30-4:40pm and 6:30-7:40pm

Where: The Breakout at The Mill, 154 Angas Street, Kaurna Yarta, Adelaide

Cost: $10 (+ booking fee)

Join us for the first Breakout Makes showing, showcasing three local artists in a fun and intimate variety show.

Breakout Makes is a new pilot program designed to provide artists with a regular platform for sharing newly developed work with audiences.

Aiming to build an open and inclusive community of makers across different disciplines and to bring audiences into the process of making new work, encouraging them to value the ‘blood, sweat and tears’ that goes into creating a performance.

About the artists

Jo Zealand has been a performing arts maker for 30 years, Jo specialises in theatre that’s comical, musical, interactive and provocative. Prolific in her output, invention and creativity, she has produced short films/video, full-length theatre pieces, solo/duo cabaret acts & full-length shows, comic pieces, roving characters, songs, clown theatre shows, workshop series, workplace performance content, music theatre. Founding member of Restless Dance Company and Slack Taxi, Artistic Director of No Strings Attached for 5 years, she has trained with master teachers OS and has an ADV DIP in screenwriting. Jo aims to make works that connect, explore and celebrate what it means to be human.

Poppy Mee is an actor, writer and theatre-maker. She creates highly theatrical performances steeped in satire, existentialism and a thick dollop of whimsy. As a screen actor Poppy has appeared in Stateless, Lucy and DiC, as well as having co-wrote and performed in Hamlet In The Other Room at Rumpus Theatre and numerous independent projects locally and interstate. PSYCHOPOMP is Poppy's second solo work, which she is currently redeveloping for its sophomore season at Melbourne Fringe Festival. Poppy is a proud MEAA member.

Dalmas Otieno is a 39-year-old contemporary dance artist born and raised in Kenya. He began his dance career in 2006 with Pamoja dance group. Pamoja dance group consists of mixed-ability dancers with and without disabilities. Able?...Disabled?...Differently abled. With Pamoja dance group, Dalmas won the US Embassy Diversity and Culture Dance Competition award in 2010. Dalmas has featured in different productions with Pamoja dance group that include; mother tongue, Koncrete City, Mkwezi, Elephant Stories among others.

About our venue

The Mill is an accessible space. Disability access is available via Angas Street, and a disability toilet is also available. More access information is available on our website. If you have any questions or additional accessibility requirements, please contact us at info@themilladelaide.com

Please ensure you read our Covid-19 policy before attending our venue.