CREDITS

Choreographer
Angela Barnard

Producer
Joshua Lowe

Technical Manager
Siobhain Geaney

Company Members
Aeden McCarthy, Annie Burt, Ayame Ochi, Bella Cannon, Charlotte Dandeker, Chelsea King, Claire Thompson, Daniel Graham, Erica Campbell-Graham, Gracie-Lee Thorpe, Katelynn Curtis, Katie Palmer, Kaani Booth, Kiarn Martelli, Leah McCarthy, Sammie Lester, Tiarna Bakowski, Zachary van Tienen & Zoe Chilcott.

OCTOBER 12TH - 15TH, 2016
MACQUARIE POINT GOODS SHED, HOBART

Featuring a cast of 19 local young performers, Trash This Place was DRILL's 2016 major season of exciting, fresh contemporary work by choreographer Angela Barnard. This work, made in collaboration with our senior company members, followed on from REBELLION (2013) and Radical Kid (2015), winner of two Tasmanian Theatre Awards.

Trash This Place explores cultures of self-destruction, highlighting and responding to the growing awareness of how we trash our bodies and our planet. In the work the dancers became the visual mess, the chaos, the calamity of stuff. They were the embodiment of the collective vomit of ideas that were generated; the trash and the treasure, the beautiful and the useless. Trash This Place explored trashing our minds, our bodies, even our art form - and then the potential of the trash itself. This dance piece was trash. It had to be. We couldn’t make a piece called Trash This Place and allow it to be a thing of splendour.

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ANGELA BARNARd

Angela is a Hobart-based dance artist and teacher. In 2005 she graduated from Deakin University with a Bachelor of Creative Arts in dance and photography and in 2006 from QUT with a Graduate Diploma in Education.

Angela has performed with a number of local companies and independent artists such as Stompin, DRILL, Kickstart Arts, SPACE Dance, Chris Love and The Phonics as well as presenting her own choreographic works. Since 2007 she has taught TCE Dance at a number of schools including Guilford Young College, Hobart College, Claremont College and New Norfolk High, and has choreographed for numerous school musicals. From 2009-2012, Angela was a choreographer for the Hobart Chargers Cheerleaders and was an accredited cheerleading coach at Southern All Stars Cheer and Dance.

Angela has been working with DRILL since 2013 and choreographed for Radical Kid (2015), All Your Worth (2015), Trash This Place (2016) NEON (2019) and, Junior Company’s performances Elemental (20190 and CHANGE (2020).