Ellen Marning

STRANGE LOCUTIONS
La Mama Winter Explorations 2023

What a beautiful ride this has been. A joy and honour to work with for our Explorations season 🌹

A huge thank you to La Mama Theatre for their incredible support throughout the whole process ❤️

Thank you to Red Velvet Underground for the use of their beautiful rehearsal space ❣️

Photos courtesy of the wonderful Darren Gill.

Xx

ANNOUNCEMENT - Nu-Disco! is coming to Brisbane!
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For 3 nights only ~ Brisvegas has the chance to come watch this boogie-extravaganza
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A one woman show written and performed by .marning diving into the deep depths of the clubbing scene, and all the highs and lows that we move through as we groove through the night
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May 4-6 7:30PM
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Nu-Disco! review (Melb Fringe) Reviews on the independent and professional performing arts in Melbourne, and interviews with those who create it.

MEET THE TEAM ⚡

Laura is Nu-Disco!'s director and her sensitivity, craft and openness has meant the work has been able to evolve into new and electrifying territories. She. Is. Utterly. Brilliant. ✨
"What's your favourite club song Laura?"

"Oooo there's so many! Let's go.... Sandstorm by Darude"
Bio: Laura is a professional actor & theatre maker based in Naarm (Melbourne) and a part of the LGBTQIA+ community.

In recent years, Laura has been pursuing many different healing modalities, deepening her connection to self and how she relates to others. This ongoing self inquiry has created a foundation where emotional safety and a commitment to authenticity is at the forefront of her creative process. Also heavily influenced by her participation at Australian Director, Kim Farrant’s Raw Truth Workshop. Laura was thrilled to direct Ellen Marning in ‘NuDisco’, this Melbourne Fringe Festival.

Laura is an acting graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) company 2016, has trained extensively in Physical Theatre (Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre, Brisbane), and completed a Bachelor of Performing Arts at Monash.

Her credits include ‘DAVE’ (Channel Ten Pilot), ‘Forever House’ (Eyre Highway Productions), ‘The Dream of the Songstress’ (PTN films), “The Threepenny Opera (adjusted for inflation)” (Montague Basement), “Delilah” (Left of Centre), “Appropriate Kissing for All Occasions” (ReAction Theatre).

MEET THE TEAM ⚡

Liv is a consummate professional and their energy and positivity has been a pillar of support. This week has been made doubly fun thanks to Liv's pre-show vibes and their stunning work on Nu-Disco!'s lighting design and tech operation.
"What's your favourite club song Liv?"

"Bonkers by Dizzee Rascal"
Bio: Olivia McKenna (they/them) is an operator/ technician, arts manager and sound designer based in Melbourne. They have recently worked as a technician and operator on numerous shows at the Butterfly Club, including Darling Boy, Shut Up I’m a Vampire, Haha Fair Enough and many more. They also recently sound designed ‘And She Would Stand Like This’ with Antipodes Theatre Company at Meat Market, lighting and sound designed Finn and Lachie: A Show About Me and Call Me By Your Dead Name in 2022. Liv recently graduated from VCA with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Design and Production) and is completing a Master of Arts and Cultural Management at the University of Melbourne, taking an interest in theatre, production and artist management

MEET THE TEAM ⚡

Robert Downie is a musical genius and his sound design and original compositions brought the club space of Nu-Disco! into glorious life. He's a dead set legend and is always up for a DJ sting 🤠
"What's your favourite club song Bobby?"

"Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At"
Bio: Robert Downie is a composer, producer, and sound designer seeking to combine the memories of days past with visions of the future. Along with writing scores for contemporary dance works, theatre shows, and short films, he is also an active member in the Melbourne music scene with song-writing, mixing, mastering and production credits on over 50 records.

MEET THE TEAM ⚡

Bronte is Nu-Disco!'s Dramaturg and her incredible insight and intelligence has been an absolute gift to this new work.
"What's your favourite clubbing song Bronte?"

"I truly do not know what my fav clubbing song is. Can we say Gold by Spandau Ballet - even though its definitely not a clubbing song haha"

But let me tell you, she is GOLD 🏆
Bio: Bronte Charlotte is a performer, writer, director, dramaturg and producer originally from Meeanjin Country, currently living in Naarm (Melbourne).This year Bronte produced, co-wrote and performed in the highly reviewed new play Pieces of S**t. She finished principal photography on the Melbourne based independent feature film In The Meantime in the lead role, for which she was also casting and co-producing. Trained in devising and developing work from the ground up, she is now working as a director and dramaturg alongside writing and performing. For Melbourne Fringe Festival 2022 Bronte performed in Charlie Josephine’s Pops, directed Spinning Plates Co. new work Shut Up I’m a Vampire, and was the dramaturg for Ellens new comedy cabaret Nu-Disco!

Bronte joined Cathy Hunt for a directing attachment on Phantasmagoria as part of Theatre Works’ 2022 program, and collaborated with Ellen on her comedy cabaret Shticky Business for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2022 as a collaborator and performer. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting) from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) in 2018.

All right party people!
THREE MORE SHOWS!
Tonight, Saturday and Sunday 10pm at The Butterfly Club. 🦋

Come dine out on s*k beats, wild characters and a surreal Odyssey into the depth of the club 🔥

Written and performed by Ellen Marning
Directed by Laura McAloney
Dramaturgy by Bronte Charlotte
Composition by Robert Downie
Lighting Design and Tech Operation by Olivia McKenna

📷 Image courtesy of Cameron Grant

Nu-Disco! A high-octane theatrical tribute to the élan , revelation and shadow selves that emerge in the depths of da klub...

5 MORE SHOWS
Must end Sunday!
10pm every night this week!

Book via link in bio, or

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Nu-Disco! hath opened 🔥

This week only!
10pm


link in bio, bring ya friends. Would love to see you at da klub xx

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Written and performed by .marning
Directed by
Dramaturgy
Sound design and original music
Lighting design and tech operation

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As much as Nu-Disco! has evolved into a high-energy, ratbag romp through the club space, it also explores the darker sides of these spaces.

The show contains strobe lighting, both sudden and sustained loud noises and potentially triggering content or themes including sexual harrassment, drug references, alcohol use, sexual references, su***de references and mental health.

If at any time you need to leave the space please do so, no questions asked, and if it feels right for you, you are always welcome back in.

Pls take care. We'll have resources available by the bar or feel free to reach out to me directly if you're concerned about the content warnings mentioned.

Xx

Monday Mood 💃

We open in a week! Literally a week! F*ckin oath party people!

If you've ever been to a club with me you know I can't stop, won't stop. And if you haven't, well, come along to Nu-Disco! for a little tasting platter...

Feat the sublime talents of director Laura McAloney, dramaturg Bronte Charlotte, sound designer Robert Downie and lighting design/tech operator Olivia McKenna.

10pm
17 - 23 Oct


Bring ya friends, ya barista, ya friendly neighbourhood disc jockey 🎧

📷 Cameron Grant, Parenthesy

"Actually, what f*cks with me is always the bathrooms at clubs.
Because I always need to p**s.
I mean, really need to p**s.
I'm 6 beers in and haven't broken the seal..."
Nu-Disco! opens a little over a week! And we're taking you on a night out complete with all the trimmings of that come hand in hand with dancing till your feet bleed and your jaw aches.

Monday 17th - Sunday 23rd Oct at the 🔥 timeslot of 10pm.

GET YA TIX xx

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As part of
Presented by

Flash Sale! ⚡
25% off all tickets!
What a bar-gain!

This is the last Fringe Flash Sale! If you've been waiting to book, now's the time!

Come boogie with me 💃

Ends 5 October at midnight!

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I spoke with My Melbourne Arts about Nu-Disco!, 'the moment' and day-clubbing in Berlin earlier this year 💙

Read the full article here:
http://www.mymelbournearts.com/2022/09/ellen-marning-is-dancing-night-and-day.html

❤️💙💜

Big thanks to Myron My

Nu-Disco!
17 - 23 October
10pm


Written and performed by: Ellen Marning
Directed by: Laura McAloney
Dramaturgy: Bronte Charlotte
Original sound: Robert Downie

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📷 Courtesy of

#2022

Marning recalls a recent visit to a club in Berlin and the intense feelings as she entered the venue... "It panicked me for a moment because it had been a long time since I’d been in a space like this. The darkness. The music from another room reverberating in my bones. And these posters scattered on the walls about the precautions to take with a new injectable that had entered the scene. It was sensory overload. And then I walked out into the next part of the club and it was this open, wooden dance floor in the middle of a green oasis! Smoke machines, disco balls, pine trees, empty spa tubs you could lounge in and little nooks in amongst the trees to provide people with the opportunity for rest and conversation," she says.

"I felt like the emphasis was on the community in how much care they had taken to make people comfortable. The music could be heavy, electric, transcendent, wild, but there were spaces to rest, to take in the scenery, and even bathe under outdoor shower heads if you needed it! I danced like a maniac for a solid two hours straight and left the club in the middle of the afternoon, covered in sweat and beetroot red in the face. It was like stepping out of another world. It was absolutely glorious." My Melbourne Arts

Join Ellen Marning for the premiere of Nu-Disco! at The Butterfly Club this Melbourne Fringe.
17 - 23 October
10pm

Link to tix in comments below xx

http://www.mymelbournearts.com/2022/09/ellen-marning-is-dancing-night-and-day.html
http://www.mymelbournearts.com/2022/09/ellen-marning-is-dancing-night-and-day.html

Ellen Marning is dancing the night (and the day) away with Nu-Disco! Reviews on the independent and professional performing arts in Melbourne, and interviews with those who create it.

"She loves a chippy but hates the corporation." ⚠️⚡✨

Nu-Disco! Who's coming?

7 shows
17 - 23 October
10pm
as part of

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HMU 💜

40 HOUR FLASH SALE

25% off all tickets until 4pm on Sunday 4th September.

Book your tickets now.

Link in bio 💜

Hey party people ⚠️

New show, who dis?

Nu-Disco! premieres this October at The Butterfly Club as part of Melbourne Fringe Festival.

A tribute to the revelation, merriment and shadows selves that emerge in the depths of da klub...

Get keen. This team is 🔥 Feat the sublime talents of

📷 By Cameron Grant, Parenthesy.

HMU 💜

Hey party people ⚠️

New show, who dis?!

Nu-Disco! premieres this October at The Butterfly Club as part of Melbourne Fringe Festival.

A tribute to the revelation, merriment and shadows selves that emerge in the depths of da klub...

Get keen. This team is 🔥 Feat the sublime talents of

📷 By Cameron Grant, Parenthesy.

HMU 💜

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