First of all, hello! And welcome to our crowdfunding campaign. Thanks for checking it out! Here's a little teaser from rehearsals: 

The Show

Seeing Red is a new work by choreographer and performer Ashley Dougan. Part rumination on the psychology and physical manifestation of anger, this is a study of the perception of movement in a radial arrangement. In it, the dancers seek to navigate a world being torn apart, set to a soundscape created by composers Rachel Lewindon and Samuel Kreusler.

Seeking to represent this with his post-modern dance training, Dougan will draw on chance procedures and text-based improvisational scores to attempt to answer the question; why are we so angry? And how can we harness this?

Artist's Note : The concepts around this show have been racing around my mind for a couple of years now, mostly in regards to those in control of the world's future, and their complete disregard for the health of our people, biodiversity, and ultimately, the fate of our planet. I'm angry, and so should you be. 

Choreography: Ashley Dougan
Performance: Ashley Dougan, Momoko Nanri, Emily Shoesmith, Millie Excell, Jesse Clune, Gabriel Holton, Millie Whiting
Sound Design: Rachel Lewindon, Samuel Kreusler

The Team

ASHLEY DOUGAN • CHOREOGRAPHY AND PERFORMANCE

Ashley Dougan is a dancer and choreographer based in Melbourne, Australia. Having completed his BFA (Dance) at the Victorian College of the Arts, and undertaking supplemental study at the CND in Paris, he is now focusing on his personal body of work. With a strong classical and contemporary background, and experience in physical theatre and aerial choreography, he has worked with choreographers such as Kate Denborough, Stuart Shugg and Nat Cursio. Ashley has performed at Darwin Festival, Melbourne International Arts Festival and Sydney Festival and has been involved with shows in both Melbourne Fringe and The Sydney Fringe. He has also worked with Tracks Dance Company, Stalker Theatre, Opera Australia, and recently choreographed and performed in Forest Collective's SOLD OUT ballet-opera, Orpheus (2019). Amongst this, he maintains a keen interest in youth dance, movement invention, and dance on film.

RACHEL LEWINDON • SOUND DESIGN

Rachel Lewindon is an emerging composer, pianist, sound designer and musical director based in Melbourne, Australia. She graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts with a Bachelor of Honours in Interactive Composition. Her work has focused on the relationship between sound and movement having worked with many devised theatre projects as well as dance and film. 

Her sound has developed from her classical background with contemporary influences of voice and electronic synthesis. Most recently, her work Orlando, based off of Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando presented in Grant St Theatre was an amalgamation of voice, piano and electronic synthesis as part of her Honours thesis for 2018. She was the grateful recipient of the Marion Thomas Award for Excellence in 2018 for her work, Superhuman - The Quest for the Ubermensch, an absurdist theatrical interpretation of Freidrich Nietzsche’s Three Metamorphoses, presented in Grant St Theatre in 2017, 

Her work has been premiered at Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne Cabaret Festival, Hollywood International Moving Pictures Festival, Mudfest and various other venues and events. Her upcoming work will be featured in Times of our Lives presented for the First Commissions Project with the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, Finucane and Smith’s The Rapture - Art Vs Extinction, a remount of the acclaimed 2018 cabaret Death of A Demi Diva and the production Blackrock with EbbFlow Theatre. 

Rachel, Ashley, and performer Momoko Nanri also worked together on Anchor, a 2017 dance film that collaborated with film and drone technicians. This will be their second project together. Many of the other performers have also collaborated with Ashley in past choreographic works, such as Frisson (2016) and Seed Vault (2016). Anchor can be viewed at https://vimeo.com/232295912

SAMUEL KREUSLER • SOUND DESIGN

ROB CAMERON • GRAPHIC DESIGN

LACHLAN WOLTERS • LIGHTING DESIGN AND TECHNICAL OPERATION

PERFORMERS BIOS FOUND ON INSTAGRAM @seeingredmff

We are proud to announce that Dancehouse in Carlton will be our host for the duration of our season. Dancehouse are an invaluable resource for emerging and international dance artists, and we're grateful that we were selected as part of their programming. 

Unfortunately, we were not succesful in securing funding for this development, and as it is an entirely self-produced and self-funded project, we are asking for your help, to make this work the best it can be! 

Any and all donations are highly appreciated, and we want to thank you, in advance, from the bottom of our hearts, for your generous contribution, and for helping the independent Australian dance sector thrive.

Please find a breakdown of our budget. Please note that we hope to exceed our goal, in which case, the performers and creatives will be paid, before reconciling studio fees and other collateral. 

800 - portion of venue hire for performance week

200 - portion of fee for lighting design and graphic design by  L Wolters and R Cameron

100 - portion of fee for sound design by R Lewindon and S Kreusler

100 - portion of fee for poster and program printing through company Plakkit

100 - portion of fee for costuming 

100 - half the cost of Public Liability Insurance (to keep our valued audience safe)

100 - petty cash fund for essentials such as muscular remedies (magnesium, deep heat etc), strapping tape and the like

As this is a self-funded project, we have been conservative with our above estimates. We have not included funds for rehearsal space. We appreciate any support you can provide, and thank you for taking time out of your day.