LRT’s Michelle St Anne shares how processes of ‘re-scripting’
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Slight hand of mentorship
the result was a specific kind of listening beyond sound but included our relationship to space, costume, light and bodies.
Translating past hurts: A reflection on The Reckoning
LRT intern Iris Higginbotham recalls her experience of witnessing Michelle St Anne’s . The Reckoning’ – a viewing of this work-in-progress, which featured an image based concert with Microfiche, Imogen Cranna and Cloé Fournier. In this article, Iris reflects on the impact of viewing a story that mirrored her lived experience, which ties in her unique perspective a […]
Reckoning with food violence
Where is the reckoning with those who profit from these preventable deaths?
Rhythmic Spaces
No longer did I need to look behind. Never again because he was dead. And dead men don’t…
The tension of abstraction
The foul of the air is an immersive performance that challenges conventional theatre through its visceral use of bodies, sound, and space. This reflection explores how the work’s intense physicality and symbolic language create a powerful experience that resonates beyond traditional narrative understanding. The foul of the air presented the beauty and the power of physical […]
The Black Summer & Time, Grief, Memory, Value
The whole project relied so heavily on trust, and the result is a broody work about time, grief and memory
Ghostly Landscapes: Reflecting on Sunlit Noir and the Australian Gothic
To gothicise is to turn towards these conditions and resonances, to tend to rather than shy away from the odorous wounds of history. Festering in the hot Australian sun, their continuous, gaping presence demands it.
Requiem for A Black Summer
rituals helped me shroud this new work in the layers of grief that is resistant to the flows of time.
Sites of Violence / Collision and Composition
Caught within both the theatrical and the academic worlds, I have long been fascinated with the public lecture – its rhythm, its timbre and the frequency of facts