ARTIST CALLOUT 2012
www.cracktheatrefestival.com
Thursday 27 September – Sunday 30 September 2012
NEWCASTLE, AUSTRALIA

Crack Theatre Festival is seeking applications from theatre and performing artists to present performances, workshops, presentations, demonstrations, panels, forums and other creative live occurrences. Crack is a national festival and forum for alternative theatre makers and performing artists. It takes place in Newcastle annually, and is part of This Is Not Art.

Crack is an opportunity for you to enrich your creative practice. Inclusion in the program is a chance to experiment with new ideas, investigate new collaborations or take your work in an entirely different direction. A convergence of artists and companies from across Australia, Crack can also increase your national profile, and extend your creative networks for the future.

Crack Theatre Festival provides programmed artists and companies with a shared venue, production support and equipment, public liability insurance, inclusion in the TINA program, event listing on the Crack website, and basic documentation.

Unfortunately Crack can’t fund project development, or cover travel and accommodation costs, but it is totally free to attend. Crack is a forum and festival for artists by artists and hence there are no charges to participate or present work in the festival. So although selected artists won’t receive any box office income, showcasing your new work and ideas, with the support of Crack Theatre Festival, is free.

We look forward to receiving your proposal and the opportunity to program your new work in Crack.
Be sure to visit the Crack Theatre website, and the TINA website to familiarise yourself with the convergence of artists, reviewers, thinkers, writers, dreamers, the independent, the emergent, and the experimental.

Submissions close midnight March 16, 2012

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD APPLICATION PACK

Fleur Kilpatrick, The Insomnia Cat Came to Stay, Crack 2011

Somehow it has happened.  The calendar has turned, and now we face 2012 with gusto and passion.

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(Crack 2011 work (L-R) Insomnia Cat Came To Stay, Catalyst#5, Polly Wolly)

For more images of Crack 2011, please click here. 

Crack 2011 is over, and the festival team look excitedly toward 2012 for what is already shaping up as the best and brightest Crack Theatre Festival yet!  Some exciting projects are already bubbling along, and without giving too much away, feel free to get excited over the words:

Circus – Film – Installation – Experimental – Dance – Theatre

We hope 2012 has begun gloriously for you all, our Crack family, and will be seeing you all soon.

EXCITING NEWS: Join the Crack team!  We are seeking two inspiring and passionate people to become the 2012 Associate Producers.  The successful candidates will lead on to become the 2013 Artistic Directors. Apply now, by downloading the PD here:  Crack Theatre Festival Associate Producer
APPLICATIONS CLOSE: Wednesday 8th February 2012
INTERVIEWS HELD: Mid-February 2012 

Gareth and Jane x

“Can live dance be remixed?” is the question posed in this interactive sample driven performance experiment. Riffing on popular culture jams profligate on YouTube (think Star Wars vs Family Guy vs Keyboard Cat) – the collective brings iconic motion picture moments into dance form with a smile both wry and dry.

Beyond the use of video the dancers bring true creative flair to the performances in a genre-bending mash-up of dance styles and conventions. It’s high standard improvisation, brought to fruition with audience help: picking from a selection of traditional and absurd dances in different styles. Nobody knows what may come – in Friday’s show we saw Swan Lake and the Macarena performed in various modes of the modern and hip-hop ouvre. Truly unexpected and original work…

It’s an open ended workshop, so Friday’s dances will differ from Saturday’s; which is slated to take the next level and incorporate audience participation in the form of remixed video contributed throughout the course of the festival. This could include literally any video content you can think of – so it’s a striking imaginative leap for the dancers to translate into movement in a live context.

Hit up the Crack House to contribute to the video remix or catch the final multidisciplinary collaboration at 7pm Tonight at The Loft!