SWELL 3.0 // A DAY ADVENTURE FOR THE CURIOUS
 

SWELL is an ambitious blend of live music, art, wellbeing and design that creates an experience of the surprising and soul opening kind.

Swell is a co-creation amongst a bunch of passionate creative people who all love art, music and culture. Our imagination takes us inside the remote forts and tunnels that lie amidst nearby Point Nepean National Park on the Mornington Peninsula.

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Let’s adventure to the end of the earth and experience it through the art of live music: a language that transcends logic to connect us with others, self, spirit and place.

 

A place remote.

Extreme.

Full of fascinating contradiction, much like the human condition.
 

Where ocean wild meets bay calm,

Blinding beauty meets frightening form, and

Hope inspiring biodiversity meets manmade structure.

 

A place steeped in history set against ever-changing tides.

An indigenous women’s place turned military defence base.

A place open to enter yet still partly off limits.

 

http://swelllivemusic.com/

https://www.facebook.com/events/1851393265103167

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Show dates

  • Sat 22nd April 2017

  • Sun 23rd April 2017

  • Rehearsal / Wardrobe Fitting - on site one week before show.

 

  1. Mindfulness Lead x 1  

  2. Live History Reading Orator x 1

  3. Priest x 1   

  4. Space Hosts x 6   

  5. Journey Hosts x 2

  6. Swellness Host + extra activity lead x 1  

  7. Guided walk Host x 1

  8. Typewriter Host x 1

  9. Dance Lead x 1 + vollies

INCLUSIVITY
We are committed to being as inclusive as possible and seek out diversity in our casting choices - including different races, ages, gender identities. We must have a diverse mix in the cast so if one type has been cast - i.e a male then we will make sure we have a female as well etc etc. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are strongly encouraged to apply.

 

MINDFULNESS LEAD $150 per day x 2 = $300

Female - 30 years plus - to devise and lead a guided meditation on the themes of connection of individuals to the land, to each other and the contradictions and divisions within us. The way people create division and yet yearn for connection and unity. The way the landscape reflects this juxtaposition with the stormy open ocean on one side of Point Nepean and the calm bay on the other side.

The Audience will sit in a circle in outdoor courtyard at Fort Nepean with a view of the ocean while ambient classical music plays live.

Suit a Yoga Teacher or Spiritual Guilecture.

 

LIVE HISTORY READING ORATOR - $150 per day x 2  = $300

Male or Female - any race - age 25 - 60 -

A storyteller, enticing audience members to come closer and experience your stories. An ability  to project voice and read stories in a dramatic and interesting manner.  Good pronunciation - able to adapt performance to different groups - it may be 3 people sitting down together for intimate story or or you may be standing up and addressing a group of 30 people. You may need to chat to people about the histories you are reading and then when you judge the time is right begin reading a history.

 

CONFESSION BOOTH PRIEST HOST $100 per day x 2  = $200

Female - age 25 - 70 - any race. Needs to have a compassionate and authoritative manner. Needs to be able to improvise and learn phrases and script lines. Must improvise with audience and entice them to come and confess about an experience of live music on the mornington peninsula. Must sit them down and be a good listener and good at prompting the audience member and asking questions to elicit a confession.

 

LIVE PERFORMANCE SPACE HOSTS - $100 per day x 2  = $200 each

  • TUNNEL 2 HOST

  • GUN EMPLACEMENT 5 HOST

  • UPPER BARRACKS HOST

  • THE RIP TRACK HOST

  • ENGINE ROOM HOST

Hosts will be costumed - will need to guide the audience into the space - being responsible for monitoring audience safety and for setting up audience expectations and showing audience how to behave - i.e where can they sit - should they dance or stand back against walls? There may be the need to direct the audience in character in and out of the space and to show them what they can and can't do. You also will mingle with audience pre-show in character to create an atmosphere - characters to be revealed later.

Audition - just speak as yourself - and tell us your experience and how you would manage speaking to a ground of 50 people and how you would guide them verbally and physically in character.

 

JOURNEY HOSTS/ GENERAL ON SITE HOSTS - $100 per day x 2 = $200 each

  • MELBOURNE BUS JOURNEY HOST/SHUTTLE HOST (BECOMES GENERAL HOST FOR THE BAR/FOOD AND HISTORY TUNNEL AREAS as people arrive - this job will get less busy once shows start and then will get busy again as people are exiting.

  • BALNARRING BUS JOURNEY HOST/SHUTTLE HOST(BECOMES GENERAL HOST FOR THE BAR/FOOD AND HISTORY TUNNEL as people arrive - this job will get less busy once shows start and then will get busy again as people are exiting.

You will be like a Tour Guide/ A Mystical Journey Guide etc. Need to be able to manage checking off names on lists, boarding busses and checking passengers off manifest - public speaking to entertain the bus and put them in the right mood - potentially doing an open eye guided meditation etc .

Audition: As a mystical guide talking to a group on a bus as they sit down and begin their journey to a remote place full of contradiction that has never before been.

 

MILITARY INTERROGATOR TYPEWRITER HOST - $100/ Day x 2  = $200

A military Interrogator encourages audience members into their area - inviting them to tell their story. They ask if they have experienced any live music on the mornington peninsula before. If the person has, the host entices them to sit down and asks them questions about an experience they had of live music on the Mornington Peninsula. The Interrogator types it up - or takes notes and types it up later or they “force” the subject to type up the story. Interrogator actor needs to improvise in character and be clever in interacting with the audience member. Must be able to interact in a fun way without causing offence or touching on inflammatory topics like politics. Costume needed can be actors own costume or one we provide.

ACTOR : Male or Female - 30 - 80 years old. White Anglo Saxon to fit in with the Military Base which was manned by white people. English or Australian accent. Ideally can have a strong commanding, superior, authoritative manner - nature attitude - can be intimidating but also a little playful - their main focus is getting the story and they will try various methods to coerce the story from the audience member.

AUDITION VIDEOS

We ask for potential cast to send in a 1 - 3  minute Audition Video - shot on a camera phone - it can be very basic - if it is a character audition then do the character - i.e - guided meditation - do a 1 min guided meditation - if it is as a priest - do a priest impression asking us to confess.

 

CONTACT:

NATALIE SMITH, CREATIVE PRODUCER

E: natarasmith0@googlemail.com