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- Driven to New Pastures
– Downtown
– Loving You In Public
– State We Are In
– Fraudulent Behaviour
– No Entry/Access All Areas
– Quietly Collapsed
– Love Song Dedication

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Image credit: Heidrun Löhr

“Downtown is a whimsical work from an artist who surprises us nowadays with subtleties and metaphysical turns... and vocal rhythms that, although now comforting, still incline to the pulse of poetry...” RealTime 96

Using a digital road works sign, popular science and an imaginary dog called Jerry, Downtown attempts to understand how we effect and affect each other in public space.  Given the increasing popularity of virtual social networking spaces, and the impact these virtual spaces have on community globally, Downtown attempts to bring it back to the local – real bodies sharing real spaces in the same time zone.

Over a two-week period Rosie walks the streets of a city collecting anecdotal stories about the multiple ways people interact with each other in public spaces.  Each evening she recounts stories and shares highlights from her day while simultaneously expose the process of making a live performance. The performance grows by 5-minutes in length each day, culminating in a full-length performance with a local community choir.

Told with Dennis’s trademark wry humour this is a made-to-measure performance for each city.

PRESENTED
Performance Space, Sydne;, ANTI Festival, Finland; World Theatre Festival, Brisbane; Touble Festival, Brussels; Artshouse, Melbourne.


Downtown was made possible through the generous support of Performance Space, Sydney. It was first presented in February 2010 as part of the You Are Here Season.