Year 3
2024 Winners!
May 26, 2024
Six finalists pitched their ambitious and visionary projects at our Grant Awards event, 23rd of May, at the eponymous Rechabite Hall. Our donors were faced with the difficult decision of choosing 2 to award our game changing grants to. STRUT Dance and Sensorium Theatre took home the major grants for their respective projects: Perth Moves 2025 and Snuggleplay.
Perth Moves 2025 sees STRUT Dance create a one of its kind in the southern hemisphere; a three-week dance festival. Anticipated to reach 10,000+ participants, PERTH MOVES ignites participation through a workshop series for dance artists from across Asia-Pacific; a new production for WA audiences through an Australian-first international collaboration with acclaimed choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (BE) to adapt Philip Glass’ monumental work SATYAGRAHA; and a FREE Summer Dance Hub offering classes and participatory social dance events for anyone and everyone. PERTH MOVES’ game changing platform promises artists and audiences unimagined possibilities and opportunities to participate like never before. Proudly positioned in Boorloo, PERTH MOVES celebrates movement, music, connection, and community.
Snuggleplay will be a multi-sensory theatre work for babies with disability and their families. Recognising the additional challenges of a having a baby with additional needs - Snuggleplay will be a warm, playful hug that nurtures and supports parents whilst focusing on each child's strengths to build neurological connections through creative multi-sensory play. Co-Director Michelle Hovane is joined by experienced dance artists and somatic educators Alice Cummins and Jacqui Otago and the composer/musician Thea Rossen, together they will test their ideas in community co-design workshops with families who have babies with disability. Sensorium will then commission the set, props and costumes and test the show with their audience. The work will premieere in October 2025 and will have a highly mobile version which can be performed in community spaces as well as a more elaborate set for theatres and festvals aimed at inclusive performances for all families and their babies.
Six finalists pitched their ambitious and visionary projects at our Grant Awards event, 23rd of May, at the eponymous Rechabite Hall. Our donors were faced with the difficult decision of choosing 2 to award our game changing grants to. STRUT Dance and Sensorium Theatre took home the major grants for their respective projects: Perth Moves 2025 and Snuggleplay.
Perth Moves 2025 sees STRUT Dance create a one of its kind in the southern hemisphere; a three-week dance festival. Anticipated to reach 10,000+ participants, PERTH MOVES ignites participation through a workshop series for dance artists from across Asia-Pacific; a new production for WA audiences through an Australian-first international collaboration with acclaimed choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (BE) to adapt Philip Glass’ monumental work SATYAGRAHA; and a FREE Summer Dance Hub offering classes and participatory social dance events for anyone and everyone. PERTH MOVES’ game changing platform promises artists and audiences unimagined possibilities and opportunities to participate like never before. Proudly positioned in Boorloo, PERTH MOVES celebrates movement, music, connection, and community.
Snuggleplay will be a multi-sensory theatre work for babies with disability and their families. Recognising the additional challenges of a having a baby with additional needs - Snuggleplay will be a warm, playful hug that nurtures and supports parents whilst focusing on each child's strengths to build neurological connections through creative multi-sensory play. Co-Director Michelle Hovane is joined by experienced dance artists and somatic educators Alice Cummins and Jacqui Otago and the composer/musician Thea Rossen, together they will test their ideas in community co-design workshops with families who have babies with disability. Sensorium will then commission the set, props and costumes and test the show with their audience. The work will premieere in October 2025 and will have a highly mobile version which can be performed in community spaces as well as a more elaborate set for theatres and festvals aimed at inclusive performances for all families and their babies.
Six finalists pitched their ambitious and visionary projects at our Grant Awards event, 23rd of May, at the eponymous Rechabite Hall. Our donors were faced with the difficult decision of choosing 2 to award our game changing grants to. STRUT Dance and Sensorium Theatre took home the major grants for their respective projects: Perth Moves 2025 and Snuggleplay.
Perth Moves 2025 sees STRUT Dance create a one of its kind in the southern hemisphere; a three-week dance festival. Anticipated to reach 10,000+ participants, PERTH MOVES ignites participation through a workshop series for dance artists from across Asia-Pacific; a new production for WA audiences through an Australian-first international collaboration with acclaimed choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (BE) to adapt Philip Glass’ monumental work SATYAGRAHA; and a FREE Summer Dance Hub offering classes and participatory social dance events for anyone and everyone. PERTH MOVES’ game changing platform promises artists and audiences unimagined possibilities and opportunities to participate like never before. Proudly positioned in Boorloo, PERTH MOVES celebrates movement, music, connection, and community.
Snuggleplay will be a multi-sensory theatre work for babies with disability and their families. Recognising the additional challenges of a having a baby with additional needs - Snuggleplay will be a warm, playful hug that nurtures and supports parents whilst focusing on each child's strengths to build neurological connections through creative multi-sensory play. Co-Director Michelle Hovane is joined by experienced dance artists and somatic educators Alice Cummins and Jacqui Otago and the composer/musician Thea Rossen, together they will test their ideas in community co-design workshops with families who have babies with disability. Sensorium will then commission the set, props and costumes and test the show with their audience. The work will premieere in October 2025 and will have a highly mobile version which can be performed in community spaces as well as a more elaborate set for theatres and festvals aimed at inclusive performances for all families and their babies.
