Jazz, Theatre and Dance Continue in Moving Parts 2013 at Gasworks.
It’s now July 2013, and Gasworks Arts Park (Albert Park (Vic) is already at the half way point of their Moving Parts season, which has seen sold out performances and positive accolades and reviews since the season’s inception in April. But there’s still plenty more to come with the remaining performances of jazz, art and dance.
As Gasworks moves into the second half of the Moving Parts program, audiences are invited to experience the music and life of jazz maestro Chet Baker in Chet Baker: Like Someone in Love, the mayhem when a spontaneous art purchase turns friendships on their head in the comedy Art, and the choreography of the Shaun Parker Dance Company’s Happy as Larry.
In the theatrical performance Chet Baker: Like Someone in Love (19-20 July), David Goldthorpe explores both the haunting, unforgettable music that made Chet Baker famous and the visceral, self-destruction that made him infamous, interspersing the dialogue with expertly arranged Baker classics under the musical direction of Tim Solly and performed with a full live band. Widely recognised as the ‘James Dean of Jazz’, Chet Baker’s incredible trumpet skills and soulful vocals were sadly juxtaposed with an offstage drug addiction and regular brushes with the law. The theatre show is followed by a jazz concert.
Themes of long-term friendships, unexpected decisions and (lack of) understanding are explored in the intelligent and witty onstage comedy, ART (Aug 1 – 3). An enormous hit in the West End, Broadway and all across the globe, ART forces audiences to question themselves, their decisions, and their friendships.
A multi-award winning, dynamic, playful and beautifully layered contemporary dance work, Happy as Larry (August 9 & 10) explores the intangible nature of human happiness through an intoxicating showcase of ballet, break-dance acrobatics and highly physical contemporary dance. Happy as Larry has performed sold out seasons in London, France and Australia.
This project has been supported by the City of Port Phillip through the Cultural Development Fund and the Besen Family Foundation.