A Stalker Theatre and Unlock Dancing Plaza production Choreographer: Nick Power Associate Choreographer: Hugh Cho From our walled worlds to the gritty streets we make our way in the everyday. Hip Hop is our language and the beat of the city guides us on our journey. Featuring b*boys and hip hop styles of the highest level. Compartmentalized carves its space with funk and finesse to find freedom within the walls.

Pixel Mountain is a new physical theatre work created in collaboration with Korean artists for presentation at the Gwacheon Festival and Hi Seoul in Korea in September-October 2013. It is a 30-minute outdoor aerial and interactive projection work performed on one of Gwacheon’s iconic buildings and on the Seoul Museum of Art. Aerialists dance on the side of walls while real-time interactive projections respond to the dancers’ every move. The work brings together Stalker Theatre’s trademark physical theatre style with cutting edge new technology to create a fully immersive and interactive performance. It uses interactive 3D image and audio technologies to dynamically revision public spaces in real time through synthesising live performance, immersive interactive image projection and audio scapes. Pixel Mountain was commissioned by the Gwacheon Festival and the Hi Seoul Festival, and is supported by the Australian Government through the Australia-Korea Foundation and the Australia International Cultural Council, both part of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.

PHOSPHORI is a roaming performance for public spaces at night. Three stilt walkers each wear a metal framework on which are mounted small projectors. Projected images are cast onto the performer’s body, creating a malleable, fluid costume. The projectors are battery-powered and the projections they create on the performers are driven by iPods. The performers are thus self-contained. They wind their way through audiences and space, interacting with and re-visioning the space they inhabit. PHOSPHORI is both spectacular and intimate. The overall feeling of the work is a visceral sensation of the human amidst an ever-changing world: we exist in and are surrounded by perpetual flux. Nothing is as it seems; space, perception itself and the world around us are all subject to profound change. PHOSPHORI runs 20 minutes and can be performed three times each night with 30 minute breaks in between. The technical and staging requirements are minimal – we need only a dressing room and access to power for charging batteries. The show tours with four or five people, depending on the length of the tour.

ENCODED a meditation on fragility. This is a video of Stalker Theatre’s new work ENCODED, first presented at Carriageworks in Sydney in November 2012. ENCODED is an immersive aerial dance installation and performance that uses the latest interactive technologies to build a projected digital environment that responds to the movements of the performers. Mired in flesh, tethered to our organs, we are coded into being and stagger forward on our bones into the crackling, jagged place where sensation and abstraction collide. Dreaming of edens, we build our fragile campsites from concrete and girder, and gaze through screens at our makings. The pixels shimmer, the atoms swirl. We move and our eddies sweep away our tenderly crafted spaces. We are haunted by the iron promise of dissolution. Performers Lee-Anne Litton, Miranda Wheen, Rick Everett, Timothy Ohl Conception and direction David Clarkson Digital artist - interactive systems Andrew Johnston Digital artist - virtual costumes Alejandro Rolandi Digital artist - architectural mapping design Sam Clarkson Choreographer Paul Selwyn Norton Composer Peter Kennard Costume designer Annemaree Dalziel Multimedia dramaturg and consultant Kate Richards Lighting designer Mike Smith Digital production and operation Andrew Bluff Video Documentation: Sam James and Denis Beaubois

Stalker Theatre's break dance, aerial, stilt acrobatic fusion. Elevate is an explosive outdoor or indoor event fusing hip-hop and breakdance and beatboxing with Stalker’s trademark stilt acrobatics. Conceived by David Clarkson and directed by Nick Power aka B Boy Rely this is an energetic street style performance. The high voltage work pushes the boundaries of contemporary street theatre, capturing audiences with its risk taking approach to both breaking and stilts. Elevate is a highly disciplined, physically rigorous, and breathtakingly spectacular work which incorporates the street-dancing style, acrobatic dance, and daring of breakdance with Stalker’s subtlety of performance and spectacle. It stars one of the world’s leading breakers Bboy Blond and is highly accessible for all ages. Stalker can perform two shows per day either inside or outside and also offer workshop opportunities. This innovative work premiered in Australia in 2010 in Canberra and has been well received in Sydney at both the street festival, Hoopla (Sydney), and at the hip hop festival - Platform 3 at Carriageworks, Sydney. This innovative work premiered in Australia in 2010 in Canberra and has been well received in Sydney at both the street festival, Hoopla (Sydney), and at the hip hop festival - Platform 3 at Carriageworks, Sydney. It was most recently performed at the Festival Deventer Op Stelten in the Netherlands in July 2012.\.

A video of the complete perforrmance of MirrorMirror. It runs for 60 minutes. MirrorMirror is a beautiful, ethereal piece of dance-theatre. Utilising aerials, floor choreography and water this dynamic work it is at once physically astounding and hypnotising. The two performers work in perfect harmony, exercising flawless synchronisation to move across a stage filled with water to create a work of majesty and poetry. Mirror Mirror is a dreamy yet arresting work that leaves audiences breathless, captivated by the enchanting world created by these two stunning performers. Performers David /Clarkson and Dean Walsh (Ex-DV8) combine with Dutch-based choreographer Paul Selwyn Norton, to build a visually intense, dynamic, yet poetic, encounter above water focusing on the theme of the mortal body and ‘the other side’. MirrorMirror is a duet of dance, physical theatre and aerial fusion. The third in a trilogy of works that Stalker has devised which investigates notions of ending. The unique set allows the choreographic language to take flight via an aerial tracking system, which runs upstage to down and dynamically suspends the performance above a water floor. MirrorMirror explores the concept that information and ideas are held within the body – in genetics, in movement patterns, in memory and in ancestry. Personal identity is not fixed but rather spread over time, place and space. Australia’s Stalker Theatre has been a regular visitor to the European festival scene over the last twenty years. In its new performance MirrorMirror the company is branching out into the new realm of dance while retaining its hallmark features of bold visuals and outspoken aerial physicality. “MirrorMirror is a majestic dancing (moving) artwork.” Door Eric Nederkoorn, Dagblad Van Het Noorden, 24 August 2009 Noorderzon Festival, The Netherlands “A dazzling, breathlessly enthralling combination of aerialist/physical theatre work and dance.” Lynne Lancaster, Artshub, 7 October 2009 Riverside Theatres, Parramatta, Sydney, Australia “It’s gravity defying - and its get better. [The water] becomes a mirror of their every move, doubling the fascination and the pleasure of watching these two outstanding performers working so closely together.” Jill Sykes, Sydney Morning Herald, 7 October 2009 Riverside Theatres, Parramatta, Sydney, Australia.

StiltBreak is a fusion of break dancing and hip-hop with Stalker’s trademark stilt acrobatics. Suitable for day or night, indoors or outside, StiltBreak is a wicked mix of hip-hop style with acrobatic flare and break-neck stilt walking. StiltBreak has four performers, minimal props and can be performed up to twice per day. The initial inspiration for the project began in 2001 when David Clarkson observed breakdancers in performance at the Aerial Dance Festival in Boulder, Colorado USA. He noticed the similarities between the vocabularies of breakdancing and the form he had developed in Australia, Stalker’s hell-for-leather stilt acrobatics. Later that year Stalker taught a series of workshops in stilt technique at Canterbury Boys High School (Sydney, Australia) where students experimented with their own StiltBreak fusion. This then inspired ongoing community projects and the development of the fusion into a professional performance project. Stalker began a training/research phase with professional breakdancers and stilt acrobats in 2004 and produced StiltBreak 1, a twenty-minute foray into the StiltBreak dance vocabulary, which was performed on several occasions in Western Sydney in November 2004. Parallel to this Stalker developed an outreach program, teaching students to break-dance and stilt walk in Parramatta and Campbelltown (Sydney, Australia). In July 2005 Stalker continued this outreach program while in residence at the Campbelltown Arts Centre with David Clarkson, Nick Power and Emma Leak. In October 2006 Stalker realized its dream and under the expert choreographic eye of Nick Power, StiltBreak was performed as part of the Fisher’s Ghost Festival at Campbelltown Arts Centre.

Archival footage of RED. Red was the second work by Stalker in a trilogy of works about "endings". The first Four Riders (2001) explored the end of the world according to the Bibles Revelation. Red (2004) explores the poetics of the end of the world according to western science. MirrorMirror (2009) explores personal notions of mortality and identity. All 3 shows were directed by Stalkers David Clarkson and were performed between 2001 and 2010.