Liveworks 2024

Presented by Performance
in association with Carriageworks
23 - 27 October, 2024
Carriageworks (Sydney, Australia)

Liveworks Festival is Performance Space’s flagship festival of live art and performance, spanning dance, music, theatre, installation, experimentation and celebration. This year’s program is once again taking over Carriageworks from 23 – 27 October 2024 with a festival of art from across Australia and the Asia Pacific.

The Liveworks program reflects on the moment of crisis and precarity we find ourselves in and how – or if – we can find our way through. This year’s artists explore how we practise care and intimacy, how we hold each other in collapse, how we find release and joy in unexpected places, and the power of small actions to make big change. They offer us spaces to reflect, to come together in surprising ways and imagine new and alternative worlds. Performance Space invites you to join them on a journey of imagination, joy, rage, and contemplation of our most fundamental human experiences – love, life, death, and of course – dancing.

“Sometimes Sydney gets it right”

— Kate Gaul, Disrupting Stages

It's Already Happened, We're Just in the Past

Lead Artists Emily Parsons-Lord and Shan Turner-Carroll
Dramaturg Frances Barrett
Composer and Sound Director Evelyn Ida Morris
Movement Consultant Jo Lloyd
SFX Consultant and Pyrotechnics Expert/Mentor Genevieve Bevan-John
Producers Performing Lines
Photographer Lucy Parakhina
The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave

Creator / Choreographer / Performer Oli Mathiesen (Ngāti Manu, Ngāti Hine, Ngāpuhi)
Choreographer / Performer Lucy Lynch (Ngāti Kahungunu)
Choreographer / Performer Sharvon Mortimer (Ngāti Porou)
Producer Abbie Rogers (Kāi Tahu, Te Arawa)
Production Designer / Manager Bekky Boyce
Lighting Operator / Tour Design Consultant Shanell Bielawa
Music Suburban Knight
Production Advisor Lulu Qiu 邱詩露
Campaign Photographer Matt Hurley
Photographer Lucy Parakhina
The Bloom

Choreographer / Sound / Costume Designer Jessie McCall
Collaborators and Performers Sofia McIntyre, Sasha Matsumoto and Raven Afoa-Purcell
Moving Image Design RDYSTDY Studio
Photographer Lucy Parakhina
Leftover Market

Lead Artist Su Pin-Wen
Producer Ming Ting-En
Stage Manager / Lighting Designer Lin Ping-Hsin
Sound Designer Hsu Chia-Wei
Hero Image Designer Chen Yi-Chen
Production Assistant Chen Gong-Wei
Photographer Lucy Parakhina
Ecstasy

Lead Artist Marcus Whale
Lighting Designer Frankie Clarke
Costume Designer Indigo Newbery-Chunn
Sound Operator / Performer Angus McGrath
Choreographic Consultants Martin del Amo and Justin Talplacido Shoulder
Photographer Sage Riley
THUNDERBLOOM-LIVE

Lead Artist HOSSEI
Performers NAHID, Eugene Choi, Julia Croft, Jonny Ellis, Tom Hungerford, Beau Lai, Sidney McMahon, Valentina Penkova and Maria White
Costume Designer Tanja Mijan
Composer / Sound Engineer Harri Harding
Band / Performer Niki Johnson
Senior Choir Linda Marr and Gemma Tamock
Stage Manager Claire Finneran
Lighting Designer Sam Whiteside
Set Designer Helen Fitzgerald
Production Manager Verónica Barac
Hair Stylist Haruka Sato
Makeup Artist Alana Lucky
Photographer Lucy Parakhina
Fell

Lead Artist / Performer Luke George
Dramaturg Daniel Kok
Lighting Designer Katie Sfetkidis
Rigger Rockie Stone
Photographer Liz Ham
Brolga: A Queer Koori Wonderland

Lead Artist / Curator Joel Bray
Producer Joel Bray Dance
Lighting / Projection Designer Katie Sfetkitis
Cast of Considerable Sexual License Daniel Newell, Carly Sheppard, Zoe Brown Holten and Nadiyah Akbar
Performers Felicia Foxx, Josie Baker, DANDROGYNY, BVT, Basjia, SOVBLKPSSY, Jonny Hawkins and crescendoll
Photographer Joseph Mayers
Depicted Basjia
The Crying Room: Exhumed

Created by Marcus Ian McKenzie with Anna Nalpantidis, Derrick Duan, Maria Moles, Romanie Harper and Richard Vabre
Lead Artist / Performer Marcus Ian McKenzie
Creative Producer / Dramaturg Anna Nalpantidis
Original Set / Costume Designer Romanie Harper
Musician Chloe Kim
Technical Stage Manager Justice Georgopoulos
Lighting Designer Richard Vabre
Photographer Liz Ham
Liveworks Talks

With Open Studio: Krishna Istha - M:OTHERHOOD Project, Panel: On Catharsis, Panel: On Other Worlds, Panel: On Family, In Conversation: Su PinWen and River Lin, Book Launch: ENTANGLEMENTS by Daniel Kok and Luke George
Depicted Krishna Istha