CREATIVE WORK

  • Sprung News

    To be presented in 2024.

    Sprung News is a new multi-artform project in development by Sprung Ensemble. It is the artists' exploration and creative response to their own and other people with disability and/or who are d/Deaf’s experiences of the 2022 Northern NSW floods and emergency response. Sprung News investigates how accessible/inaccessible the media and emergency information can be to the disability community, using photography, video, audio and live performance as ways to express diverse perspectives and representation.

  • FRENCH CAFÉ

    Presented at Brunswick Picture House (2019) and Plunge Festival Grafton (2022)

    Be immersed in the parade of life: a celebration of human foibles in a café where nobody speaks the same language and absurd is the order of the day. French Café is an original dance theatre cabaret, devised and performed by Sprung Ensemble artists. The work was a new artistic direction for the Ensemble, experimenting with forms outside of contemporary dance, building on their skills, knowledge and experience as dance and performing artists.

  • O, HOW I DREAMT OF THINGS IMPOSSIBLE

    Presented at NORPA (2018)

    Contemporary dance work, co-devised by Sprung Ensemble artists and directed by Michael Hennessy, brings together a host of established artists including celebrated costume designer, Jennifer Irwin (Opera Australia, Bangarra Dance Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company), composer Fred Cole and award-winning digital artist Andrew Christie.

  • Heavy Light

    Exhibited with City of Sydney (2023)

    Collaboration with artist Andrew Christie digital and emerging technologies, using computer generated imagery, 3D printed sculpture, performance visualisations and virtual reality experiences. Heavy Light involved working with Sprung artists to create avatars of themselves, highlighting the importance of visibility and the weight of self-confrontation.

  • AWAKENING

    Presented at Northern Rivers Community Gallery (2017)

    Exploring ways digital and emerging technologies can be incorporated within performance in this collaboration with Andrew Christie.

  • DWELL

    A collaboration between Sprung, Dance Integrated Australia and R.E.D. Inc. A triple bill of dance works in progress: Sue Whiteman: Colours Within to Christopher Wilkinson; Phil Blackman: Dapple to Mbatha Nguta; Philip Channells: Into Your Arms to Nathan Gooley: Frankenstein and the Mermaid.