Exhilarating, creative, exciting… I had a big smile on my face and my heart in my mouth during the whole performance.
–Kathy Blanter, audience member
Branch Nebula parachutes into the middle of the city with a team of champion skaters, BMXers, parkourists and dancers. Featuring tightly choreographed mayhem within a compact set of skate ramps, DEMO is a spectacular performance that showcases the outstanding talent of street-styles.
Bikes launch high into the air and bodies in motion draw lines and impossible arcs. Skaters crash, and bodies slide down quarter pipes, leaping and somersaulting off the top of the ramps and disappearing into the cavity.
DEMO is a meeting point between the thrill of wheels in motion and visual expression. The lines of the skaters are made tangible, piercing the space leaving visual traces in their wake with the use of found materials and driven by a sizzling post-apocalyptic electronic soundtrack.
Feel the exhilaration of risk and danger as we pit the speed of wheels vs. the vulnerability of bodies on foot.
Dynamic, daring, delicious… I liked the parkour moves as they overlap and leap over the other skater and BMX performers, adds a level of tension and surprise. You could spend 30 minutes on Instagram looking at shit or you can spend 30 minutes immersed in 100% live awesomeness right in front of you. Which pill will you take?
– Toby Grime, audience member
performers/devisers
Carl Luiker (parkour)
Cloé Fournier (dance)
Dechen Gendun (dance)
Brock Horneman (BMX)
Austin Gray (skateboard)
Sari Simpson (skateboard)
co-creators
Lee Wilson
Mirabelle Wouters
composer
Lucy Cliché
consultant choreographers
Marnie Palomares
Nick Power
sound design consultant
Phil Downing
special effects designer and production manager
Alejandro Rolandi
stage manager
Nicole Hector
set builder
Peter Crome
produced by
Jennifer Greer Holmes
original performers
Antek Marciniec, Marnie Palomares, Kathryn Puie, Erin Barney, Brock Horneman, Sammy Renwick, Aimee Massie, Alex Baker
originally produced by
Harley Stumm
Effortless beauty. Sublime choreography. And rad shit.
–Simon Mitchell, facebook
Trailer
Tour Dates
Art & About,
City of Sydney
30 October – 3 November 2019, 4 & 6.30pm.
Customs House Forecourt
Sydney Festival 2022,
Parramatta
13-16 January, 4.30, 6 & 6.30pm.
Centenary Square
DEMO was commissioned by the City of Sydney for their Art & About program 2019, supported by a Major Festivals Initiative Development Grant and Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre. Originally produced by Intimate Spectacle. DEMO was further developed for the 2022 Sydney Festival season with support from Create NSW and the Wales Family Foundation.