Join Award winning Western Sydney slam poet Pola Fanous in lively duet conversations. FORMidables is about life, passion, the universality of dance language, what it means to be a young artist in a cosmopolitan Australia and the lessons we can take from the artists who contribute to the vibrancy of art making in Western Sydney.
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Join Award winning Western Sydney slam poet Pola Fanous in lively duet conversations. FORMidables is about life, passion, the universality of dance language, what it means to be a young artist in a cosmopolitan Australia and the lessons we can take from the artists who contribute to the vibrancy of art making in Western Sydney.
In January 2020, in the heat and smoke of last summer’s devastating Australian bushfires, 16 dancers from Bega to Parramatta, joined by 48 young Western Sydney musicians, performed in Prince Alfred Square in Parramatta as part of the Sydney festival 2020. ENCOUNTER was a work of joy. In this episode, ENCOUNTER speaker and FORMidables host Pola Fanous shares the experience of making ENCOUNTER with its director, Emma Saunders. First joined by writer Felicity Castagna, they explore the nexus between dance, text and performance in the context of creating a site-specific work. Cast members Feras Shaheen and Gabriela Green Olea follow in describing their process of discovery and endurance through rehearsing outdoors, across sites from South to West, over the 18 months it took to create a work filled with emotional realities from which a new youth company, We Are Here, has emerged.
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Join Award winning Western Sydney slam poet Pola Fanous in lively duet conversations. FORMidables is about life, passion, the universality of dance language, what it means to be a young artist in a cosmopolitan Australia and the lessons we can take from the artists who contribute to the vibrancy of art making in Western Sydney.
