A Collection of Various Selves

The Independents 2011 Co-presented by Metro Arts and Liesel Zink & Nicholas Paine Who are you really? Amongst your 140 character tweets and quickfire status updates, where do ‘you’ stop and your creation begins? Are you Frankenstein’s monster or the doctor? How do you reconcile all the selves that you create in the collective social spaces you walk/ party/ sleep/ eat/ live through every day? And when something monumental devastates a community, what gets stripped away in order to evoke what’s real? A Collection of Various Selves is a physical examination of contemporary behaviour premiering as part of The Independents 2011 at Metro Arts. Choreographer Liesel Zink – together with an eclectic crew of movers and shakers – deconstructs personas and personality. An interrogation of happiness and happenstance, this is a feel-good movement work on the trials and tribulations of feeling good. Choreographed by Liesel Zink Performed by Giema Contini, Ron Seeto, Liesel Zink and Alex Bryce Lighting design by Scott Barton Set design & AV design by Jacob Livermore Season: Wednesday 10 to Saturday 27 August When: Tuesdays to Saturdays, 7.30pm / Friday 19 & Saturday 20 August, 9pm (only) Preview: Tuesday 9 August, 7:30pm BackChat: Wednesday 17 August, Artist Q&A after performance Where: Sue Benner Theatre Tickets: $12 - $20 Cheap Tuesdays: $12 (door sales only) Bookings: www.metroarts.com.au or 07 3002 7100 Liesel Zink is currently mentored by Vanessa Mafe-Keane through JUMP, the Australia Council’s national mentoring program for young and emerging artists.