Afterglow - PACT centre for emerging artists

Overview

Afterglow at PACT centre for emerging artists is a two-week season showcasing what the company does best: enable independent artists to create experimental theatre.

PACT has curated two works for Afterglow from two of Sydney’s up-and-coming theatre talents. The Great Speckled Bird is an intermedia performance by Ryan McGoldrick, and Dining [Uns]-Table a dance-theatre performance by Cloé Fournier.

The two works generate conversation across different disciplines (digital media/live music/dance). Although stylistically diverse, they call and respond to shared themes of family, storytelling and real (and distorted) memory.

By no accident, on opening night PACT’s artistic director and CEO Katrina Douglas made direct reference to arts funding cuts currently being disputed in the Senate. She said it was now more crucial than ever to get behind emerging artists like McGoldrick and Fournier, who have realised these solo shows through a rigorous cycle of research, review and practice.