Legs On The Wall

Chatswood! BEETLE is coming to a backyard (aka The Concourse) near you!

Experience the magic of our little show with a big heart 💚

🌱 10am and 12:30pm
🌿 Tuesday 29th October
🌳 The Concourse, Chatswood

See our website to grab your tickets!

Photo by Carlita Sari

Last Saturday we were busy beetles

We had the pleasure of performing BEETLE at the Pavilion Performing Arts Centre in Sutherland ✨🪲

Check out our What's On page for our next shows https://www.legsonthewall.com.au/whats-on
at the The Concourse Chatswood & Orange Civic Theater

Beetle was commissioned by and The Art House

📸: Carlita Sari

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To celebrate BEETLE’s fabulous run this past weekend in Wyong, and our upcoming shows in Sutherland this week, here are some early glowing reveiws from our younger audience members sent to us by former Legs performer Kristen Robson!

We’ve provided some context photos and translations for some of the drawings... but some (see the last photo) need no explanation! Enjoy!

1st drawing: “I liked the second trick (?). I liked all the others.” Note the wrestling leotards, the rubber gloves on the performers’ heads, and the cardboard box full of swords!

First photo: Matthew Lafferty, Kristen Robson, and Bridget Kitchen.

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To celebrate the opening of BEETLE's regional tour in Wyong this weekend we wanted to discuss the role of Australian regional and school touring in Legs' history, with what is – as far as we’re aware – the oldest footage we have of a Legs performance, from 1988!

Regional and school touring has a long history in Australia - for many in small communities far from metropolitan areas, touring gives an exciting access to the performing arts that wouldn’t otherwise be available. Bringing performance to the wider public, outside of theatrical space, extends right back to our roots in street performing, and we are honoured to continue this legacy of bringing performance to regional Australia to this day. Were any of you lucky enough to have Legs visit your school or community?

Cast:
Brian Keough
Matthew Lafferty
Kathryn Niesche
Terese Casu

HIVE OF INDUSTRY is coming back to White Bay Power Station, Wangal for the POWER UP festival ✨

From Friday 20 - Sunday 22 September, the iconic White Bay Power Station is rolling open its doors once more for this supercharged free event.

🔧 ⛓ When : Hive of Industry is on Saturday 21 September 2.30pm and 7.30pm

Images of and in HIVE OF INDUSTRY by

Hive of Industry was commissioned by Inner West Council as part of EDGE Inner West X Biennale of Sydney 2024

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Flying Blind was a theatrical collaboration between LOTW, Canada's Arts Club Theatre Company and Axis Theatre Company, premiering in Victoria, Canada in 2001 and touring Australia in 2003.

"The quirky residents of a dilapidated apartment have their worlds turned upside down when a piece of sky falls, leaving a giant hole in their backyard. The angst-ridden young lovers, the wacky vaudevillians, the comic-addicted misfit... each can alter the course of their lives. What choices will they make?"

Described as "a hilarious, flight-filled adventure", Flying Blind was a production about neighbours and isolation, how near we can be to each other and yet how far, reflecting the contradictory human yearning for adventure and safety.

Cast and Devisors (Canadian Run):
Lois Anderson
Peter Anderson
Debra Iris Batton
Manon Beaudon
Alexandra Harrison
Colin Heath
Carle Polke
Brendan Shelper
Director: Roy Surette
Movement Director: Veronica Neave

From The Guardian's best photos of the weekend, our performance of THAW over the Thames in London as part of Greenwich+Docklands International Festival. Image by David Levene.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2024/aug/25/bosphorus-swimmers-and-a-caribbean-drugs-bust-photos-of-the-weekend

We’re honoured to have received an IMPACT Award for THAW, especially among the company of co-recipients making such powerful and important work. It’s a tribute to the work of all the artists, crew, staff, festivals, partners and supporters who’ve been part of THAW’s story so far. That story continues over the next two weeks in London and Antwerp, as we continue to share THAW’s message: there’s no time to waste.

✨And the IMPACT Award winner is…
Legs On The Wall for THAW

Legs' high impact artistry is exemplified by THAW, a durational work in which a series of artists perform on a suspended 2.7 tonne ice sculpture as it melts. Created by Legs' Artistic Director Joshua Thomson, with a score by Alaska's Matthew Burtner, THAW defies perceived impossibility and acts as a powerful metaphor for urgent action on climate change.

Witnessed by over 16,000 people in Australia and New Zealand, and over 10,000 viewers of the live stream of the Sydney Festival premiere, THAW also acted as a platform for diverse voices, with each performer ascending the ice bringing their personal and cultural backgrounds and responses to the climate crisis to the work

Discover more paca.org.au/events/impactwards/

OPEN TRAINING TOMORROW led by Jenni Large - 9:30am in the Red Box, 91 Canal Road Lilyfield. Come down to training with our artists from THAW and give them a hug before they head on our amazing tour! FREE (or by donation) as always!

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Today we have not only vintage Legs, but also vintage Powerhouse Museum! A co-production between Legs and the , Sky Driving was an early Legs foray into aerials created to celebrate Australian sky pioneers Lorres Bonny and Lawrence Hargraves. Described by one contemporary review as “A crazy collage of flight history - presented in a giddy series of atheletic tableaux”. None of the reviews mentioned the excellent costumes... the action must have just been that good!

Credits:
Director: Nigel Kellaway
Designer: Fran Ferguson
Performers: Thor Blomfield, Beth Kayes, Brian Keoguh, Bernadette Regan