White Face features a character named Chase. Through Chase the dance explores the issues of 'skin colour, pseudo-spirituality and embedded racist views which have inexorably informed our individual and collective self-image as Indigenous Australians.' (Gregory Lorenzutti, 2014 www.pozible.com/project/179132)
First performed at Footscray Community Arts Centre in May 2014
Director, Choregrapher, Performer: Carly Sheppard
Collaborator and Performer: Ryl Harris
Stage Management: Julia Truong
Original Sound Design: Jessie Lloyd
Adapted Sound Design: Janes Andrews
Lighting Design: Daniel Anderson
Commissioned by Next Wave.
Financial partners include Arts Victoria and Australia Council for the Arts Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board.
'Carly Sheppard's latest work, white face playing as part of Melbourne's Next Wave festival this week, is a contemporary performance addressing personal experience as a fair-skinned Aboriginal person based in Melbourne...'
'Carly Sheppard's latest work, white face playing as part of Melbourne's Next Wave festival this week, is a contemporary performance addressing personal experience as a fair-skinned Aboriginal person based in Melbourne...'
