Australia Dance • Theatre

TEAM OF LIFE

KAGE

WORLD PREMIERE

PRESENTED BY MELBOURNE FESTIVAL

CONCEIVED & DIRECTED BY KATE DENBOROUGH
CONCEIVED & WRITTEN BY DAVID DENBOROUGH
MUSIC BY KELLY RYALL & KUTCHA EDWARDS

If you thought of your life as a team, who would be your coach? Who is protecting your goals? Who is cheering you on?

Sport, theatre, dance and music meet head-on in this uplifting new work from critically acclaimed Melbourne dance theatre company KAGE. Performed by professional dancers, actors and rising sports stars, TEAM OF LIFE honours both the great Australian game and the world game: Aussie Rules and football.

This production springs from a groundbreaking methodology, which uses sporting metaphors to help young people overcome hardship. Informed by workshops with young refugees and Indigenous youth, TEAM OF LIFE tells of their search for different kinds of freedom, dissolving the boundaries between sport, theatre and identity.

POST-SHOW Q&A

Mon 20 Oct, post 1pm show

The creative team behind TEAM OF LIFE talk about the process of developing the show and about the groundbreaking methodology behind it.

ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION – FREE

Sat 18 Oct at 1pm

Foxtel Festival Hub

Kate Denborough, director of KAGE, and performer David Nyuol Vincent speak about art and trauma, and the places where the two converge.

Image: Jeff Busby

Credits

Conceived and directed by Kate Denborough
Conceived and written by David Denborough
Lighting Design Damien Cooper
Set and Costume Design Marg Horwell
Composers Kelly Ryall and Kutcha Edwards
Featuring Heath Bergersen, Leila Gurruwiwi, Kutcha Edwards, David Nyuol Vincent, Pier Akec, Nyuol Bol, Kiki Kuol, Gabrielle Nankivell and Timothy Ohl
Production Manager David Farmer
Stage Manager Vivienne Poznanski
KAGE Producer Simone Schinkel
Creative Director Gerard Van Dyck