CLOUD SPLIT
Tracks Dance Studio, Harbour View Plaza, Darwin
16 -18 August 2024
Cloud Split
A spontaneous duet
Exploring connection and tenderness, framed by imagery of the moody skies of the Top End, Cloud Split investigated the sublime unknowns of improvised performance, seeking to physicalise unpredictable natural phenomena.
Devised by Jess Devereux in collaboration with SJ Spillett and Kelly Beneforti, with a lush experimental soundtrack by James Mangohig and environmental moving images of the NT by Duane Preston. A long-form project with an incremental development approach, developed across a 10 month time span. At the centre was an intimate performance in the Tracks Studio for Darwin Festival 2024.
A moody aerial oceanic performance, the backdrop of mirrors and projection provided special magical effect.
A love letter to the clouds. With a special recorded Welcome to Country by Cyan
Audience Responses
"A stunning and tender offering of stories to be drawn into, colour tonality and range of energetic textures… intention and attention, sensory connection, converging of elements, skies shifting and merging and embodied conversations." Jenelle Saunders
"I feel excited when I think of the process, the trust and the responsiveness to ideas and the spontaneous choreographic experiences and piecings together of all of the elements. Beautiful, big, round, ether filled, floating, soaring love." Bryn Wackett
“Cloud split was absolutely stunning! It was so emotive... the transitions between each of the sections was so smooth and the whole piece was powerful—it really took me on a journey...it was so overwhelmingly what I needed to see.” Venaska Cheliah
Creative Team
Welcome to Country: Cyan Sue Lee
Concept and Artistic Direction: Jessica Devereux
Performer Collaborators: Kelly Beneforti and SJ Spillett
Music Director: James Mangohig
Video and Lighting Designer: Duane Preston
Costume Designer: Irena Graesslin
Understudy: David McMickeD
Development dramaturg: Britt Guy
Front Of House
Box Office: Jocelyn Tribe
Head Usher: Sally Crawford
Ushers: Sheila Rose, Sue Mornmane, Michael Stanley, Peter Stretton, Darryl Butler, Bridget Riggs, Lesley Merrett, Kathy Ryan, Gabbie Ennor, Sean Pardy
Company Partners
Tracks Inc is proudly sponsored by the Northern Territory Government.
Project Partner
Tracks Donors Circle
Tracks 2024
Artistic Director: David McMicken
Company Director: Sean Pardy
Associate Artistic Director: Jess Devereux
Production Manager: Duane Preston
Dance Animateurs: Kelly Beneforti & SJ Spillett
Creative Producer: Britt Guy
Administrator: Debbie Micairan & Jocelyn Tribe
Bookkeeper: It Figures
Auditors: Brian Tucker Audit
Committee Members: Chairperson: Max Dewa Stretton/David Taylor. Treasurer: Glenn Bernardin. Ordinary Members: Andrea Wicking, David Taylor, Max Stretton, Lachlan Peattie, Rachael Wallis, Anna Lindsay, Venaska Cheliah, Sarah Rennie. Ex-Officio: David McMicken, Sean Pardy