POSTPONED to January - WOMEN of the WAVES

Stories ~ Music ~ Feasting

10am Sunday, 18 December 2022

Napoleon Street Park/Playground - 42 Napoleon St, Battery Point

The event consists of a 70 minutes spoken word performance of Tamas Oszvald storyteller, accompanied by three musicians. The main concept of the show is to create an immersive experience, therefore our well-known chef, Honeychild will curate a three-course picnic-style Creole menu that you are going to eat with the stories. The food is to punctuate the narrative, to taste the sweetness of happiness, the bitterness of sadness, the sharpness of courage and the umami of hope...

LalinRoka’s 4th show will close the narrative circle of performances based on the four archetypes: Lovers, Shapeshifters, Tricksters and Heroes/Heroines. We feel privileged for the great support of our art patrons, audience members, musicians and other collaborators we worked through the last year.

To read more about LalinRoka, follow this link.

Our next show is going to be a treat. Women who went against the conventions, females who sought out to do life differently by force, by luck or by their own choice. Heroines of wisdom, courage, healing and determination.

This show will be produced with the support of the Wooden Boat Guild of Tasmania, Battery Point Community Hall and Hobart City Council.

When we tested our idea to run a show on Sunday, 10am, the people we talked to said: "that is crazy! But can work…" And that was enough for us to take it as a YES!

Prepare yourself for a picnic-style show, bring your blanket or just merge your body into the grass, wander and daydream while watching the clouds or the sea, listening to the stories and music and feeling the taste of Honeychild’s magic.

This is not a children's show, however, everyone is welcome who can sit and listen to a 70 minutes show without disturbing the other audience members. If you ask us, we would suggest 8 years old and older...

Seating for elderly people will be provided. Toilet access: Mariner's Cottage (provided by the Wooden Boat Guild of Tasmania)

(Bad weather venue: Battery Point Community Hall, 52 Hampden Road, Battery Point)

ABOUT THE MUSIC

We never rehearse the whole show with the musicians. We discuss and try dynamics, motives and sequences. Spoken word as Tamas does, is an always changing narrative flow, that is created on the spot, with the "things" present at the time of the telling: audience, music, food, smell, touch, the sky, the breeze, you name it... For such uncertainty, you need brave and free-spirited companions who are happy to jump with the story...

DORIANNE DANIELS - voice

Dorianne Daniels from Mukulu’s Song is a sound healer and Artist Support at Second Echo Ensemble. Dorianne has toured with the Dreaming Tree nationally and internationally at Sölhalla Festival in Sweden. She has also performed with The Chant Cartel, Melbourne, Second Echo Ensemble - Illuminate, Launceston, using her voice to weave and play alongside fellow artists and musicians. Sound and it’s counter part deep listening have become a way of life, a vehicle to hear the unheard and unknown; giving voice and expression from a place of trust and surrender. 

GEORGIA SHINE - cello

Georgia Shine is a cellist, vocalist, improviser, and multi-disciplinary artist. A University of Queensland graduate in Music Performance (Hons) and an Alexander Technique practitioner and teacher, she is the founder of Moving Connections, which uses live music and improvised dance to build community with therapeutic arts practices. 

Georgia is currently working on her own body of performance art that is inspired by the connection between the diversity of the Tasmanian landscape and her own ecology of artistic practices since returning from an Arts Tasmania funded residency at Cradle Mountain.

PAUL HEDLEY - wind instruments, words

Paul. Dr Paul. Paul Hedley Roberts. Performance-artist extraordinaire of 30 years professional experience. Classically trained as a clown with a PhD for his work in the field of contemporary dance. Educated in Melbourne, London and Ibiza - John Bolton Theatre School Melbourne, The École Philippe Gaulier London, and De Bont’s School for Clowns Ibiza Spain. Paul currently works until 2024 with Second Echo Ensemble Hobart devising and performing cutting-edge live art. In 2020 he performed for 12 months live art every week at Mona Museum Hobart. Prior to that for ten years he toured full-time dance theatre shows to Europe, North America, Mexico, South America, Russia, Japan, and all around Asia. Performing at hundreds of major venues including The National Theatre London, The Centro Bellas Artes Mexico City, Streb Studio New York, Tanz Fabrik Berlin, and The Arts Centre Melbourne. Paul received a Master's degree in 2010 for research into contemporary performance of dance and clown. In 2012 he was awarded an Australian Post Graduate Award, and in 2018 he graduated with a PhD from Melbourne University. His PhD research investigated street theatre and performance art – he made a solo work for his PhD which he performed at Federation Square in Melbourne. He lives in Lymington Tasmania with his two young sons Henry and Wilbur.