2024 Project Seed Project
Timepiece is an ethereal exploration of the different types of time that govern our lives: body time, deep time and clock time. A stunning work of physical theatre, this immersive work-in-development performance showcases a brand-new collaboration by NT artists Miriam Nicholls, Jasmine Story, Betty Sweetlove, Sarah Moore and Felicia Gomez.
Performed by:
Miriam Nicholls
Jasmine Story
Felicia Gomez
Directed by: Betty Sweetlove
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Miriam Nicholls (Co-creator/Performer)
Miriam Nicholls is an independent dance artist who trained at the VCA and has worked with companies and choreographers around Australia and overseas. Based in Mparntwe/Alice Springs, she runs the project-based collective Dusty Feet Dance, works as artist-in-residence with Duprada Dance Company, teaches with GUTS Dance and Incite Arts, and regularly collaborates with other artists. Miriam performed with Tracks Dance as part of Darwin Fringe (2024), choreographed and presented the full-length works Music that Moves and Come to the Edge (2022-24), trained in Force Majeure’s Incite masterclasses in Sydney (2023), and was part of STRUT Dance’s Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui workshop intensive in Perth (2022). In February 2024, Miriam travelled to Berlin where she was part of SHARE intensive, learning repertoire from master choreographers. A passionate artist and mum of three kids, Miriam aims to keep developing dance in Central Australia that creates joy, sustainability, connection and inspiration.
Jasmine Story (Co-creator/Performer)
Jasmine Story is an emerging playwright, producer and performer interested in using theatre to craft transformation in people’s lives, through the emotive force in sharing collective theatre experiences. In 2023 Jasmine spent time in Meanjin Brisbane and participated in the Zen Zen Zo Creative Internship Program in physical theatre, and the Playlab Transmission Program for regional playwrights. In these programs she has been developing her new work SMOKO, a high vis fever dream about rest and waste. She performed in site-specific physical theatre performance, Skelter directed by Gina Tay Limpus. In collaboration with Lili Favrel, Jasmine co-wrote and performed children’s psycho-educational theatre piece, Floopy’s Fuzzeled Feelings, at Wide Open Spaces Festival 2023. Jasmine’s work in development Claypans & Chill previewed at the Desert Festival 2022, and she performed in debut work The Nestmakers. Jasmine is a counselling student at the Australian College of Applied Professions, whose interest in mental health infuses into her writing.
Betty Sweetlove (Co-creator/Director)
Betty Sweetlove has been making, producing and performing theatre in the NT since 2015. In 2023, Betty was awarded an Erin Thomas Award by Australian Plays Transform to develop her new play, Lurker. In 2021 she received an Arts NT Varuna Fellowship and Red Hot Arts Project Seed for her play The Nestmakers, which premiered at the Desert Festival 2022. She was a Fresh Ink writer with Australian Theatre for Young People, and her monologue Swallows was published by Currency Press (2020). Other recent writing credits include Odyssey for Marian St Youth Theatre (writer, 2023), Wired Differently (dramaturg, 2023) and REBIRTH (writer/performer, 2022) for Zen Zen Zo. She is currently co-producing Theatre Makers, an independent public program of performance skills development for aspiring theatre artists.
Sarah Moore (Co-creator)
Sarah Moore is an emerging artist living on Arrernte Country. Her practice investigates art as collective gift-giving, using attention, temporality, myth and coincidence to explore the possibilities that could emerge in any situation. She studied at LungA School of Art in Iceland, and in 2023 she was involved in creating a series of collaborative performances and exhibitions in the town of Seyðisfjörður. As a visual artist involved in this project, Sarah is excited to prepare video installations, set design and props to help the audience enter an immersive situation of slippage from everyday routines and standardized time.
Felicia Gomez (Performer)
Felicia is a poet, writer, educator, dancer, yoga practioner and storyteller. Growing up between Melbourne’s eclectic multicultural community and the misty Victorian mountains, Felicia has always been interested in how landscape, culture, place and people shape stories we share, tell and carry. Felicia has myriad experiences performing in community-led dance, dramatic and musical theatre productions, and exploring physical movement through yoga, creative dance and contact improvisation. Most recently she has been bringing music, movement and stories to Steiner Schools across the country, and developing a children’s theatre show and picture book exploring the concepts of home, natural environments and time. She is interested in infusing the intricacies and diversity of human connection into her work and creating containers where stories can be shared beyond words.
Caleb Goman (Sound Designer)
Emma Smith (Video/Photographer)
