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Our first solo show at the Perth Centre For Photography!
From the Heart of Gold Projects
Friday 14th March 2008, 6:30pm
91 Brisbane St, Northbridge, Perth, Australia
Join us for a glass of champagne on the 14th of March at 6:30pm for the opening of 'From The Heart of Gold Projects' and spend some time in the surreal and glamorous world of Heart of Gold.
The 'Heart of Gold Projects' are elegantly staged investigations of nationhood that reference many 20th Century sources, such as Hollywood musicals, Burlesque, military/cultural propaganda and local European/Australian folklore.
The Projects on show at this, our first collaborative show, are the Heart of Gold Projects 2, 3, and 4.
We have included films of Busby Berkeley-esque performances by some Military 'Dolls', and the lush 'Heart of Gold Project 4', a bushranger story told through dance on location in the wheatbelt.
Plus, there will be all 12 of the propaganda pin-up photographs from Heart of Gold Project 3!
The show will be opened by Melissa Keys, and the catalogue essay is by Robert Cook.
See our 'Gallery' section for a sneak preview!
We hope to see you there!
Love,
Heart of Gold Girls
Tarryn Gill and Pilar Mata Dupont
contact: pilar@heartofgold.net.au
illustration on invite by Fern Petrie
Design by James Hensby
*** AUDITIONS FOR HEART OF GOLD - THE MUSICAL ***
Writer: Thea Costantino
Director: Zoe Pepper
Music and Sound: Ash Gibson Greig
Choreography: Tarryn Gill
Production Design: Pilar Mata Dupont
set/costume design: Costantino, Gill and Mata Dupont
Dramaturgy: Melissa Cantwell
We are seeking adult actors who can sing to audition for the principal roles of Heart of Gold, a new work of musical theatre which will be performed in October 2008 in the City of Perth Town Hall as a key work in Artrage's 25th Anniversary SILVER
Festival.
Heart of Gold is a new and darkly comic work of musical theatre which explores Western Australian identity, power, desire and the pervasive influence of the past upon the present.
With echoes of the ghost story, crime mystery and revenge drama, Heart of Gold sits within the Gothic musical genre that includes works such as Sweeney Todd, The Black Rider and Shock-Headed Peter, with a healthy dose of kitsch Australiana.
Auditions will be held on Friday 7th & Saturday 8th March.
Actors will be asked to prepare;
-2 minute contemporary monologue
-1 minute of singing performance
Applicants will be short listed and contacted to arrange audition times
Please email a current headshot & performer CV to heartofgold@artrage.com.au
with AUDITION in the subject line to receive further information. Expressions of
interest close Tuesday 4th March.
Look who has been checking out our work!
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Lord Mayor Scaffidi
Image courtesy of the City of Perth, 2008
Welcome to the Heart of Gold website!
Image from Heart of Gold Project 3
This website showcases the 'Heart of Gold Projects' and other work by Western Australian artists Tarryn Gill and Pilar Mata Dupont.
These are a series of five projects that vary in medium from photography to dance-performance, film, and tableaux vivant. They were initially designed as thematic and visual research for a theatre work we have in development, but they are also artworks in their own right.
We will also be giving updates on 'Heart of Gold', a theatre work we have had in development since 2004 with artist and writer Thea Costantino. The show will be realised in October 2008 as part of the Silver Artrage festival along with a visual art exhibition to display the 'Heart of Gold Projects'. Appropriating tropes of burlesque, music theatre, cinema, and military propaganda, the work explores myths of nationhood in contrast to narratives of isolation, desire and horror.
Please check out the gallery page on this website for images, videos (coming soon!) and more of an idea of what the 'Heart of Gold projects' consisted of.
The Heart of Gold 2008 Calendar is also on sale in our online shop. There's a limited edition of 200, so get in fast! They make great Christmas presents! There are also a few left at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) in Northbridge, Perth. Ask at reception.
We'll be posting updates as we prepare for the show, it's going to be a big year!
Until then,
Heart of Gold Girls
Tarryn Gill and Pilar Mata Dupont
xxx
contact:
pilar@heartofgold.net.au
or
tarryn@heartofgold.net.au