Due to the COVID19 pandemic a number of our events will no longer take place.

Unfortunately due to the every changing environment around large gatherings and the ability of our voluntary team to take time out to mount performances, we regret that Asia in Focus, Pierrot Lunaire & Dancing on a Volcano presented by Forest Collective will be cancelled.

We're aiming to be able to reschedule them for a future date.

We wish everyone the best at this challenging time.

We are working on refunding any ticket holders for this event, and we hope we can present this program at some point in the future.

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“The whole town and all its inhabitants are quite drowned in carnival din, masks and confetti. And on top of that the news of the Reichstag fire. Dancing on a volcano!” 
- Alban Berg, Munich, 1933.

Forest Collective presents Dancing on a Volcano - a mini festival exploring the tumultuous music of Germany and broader Europe from the end of the 19th century until Nazi occupation.

Dancing on a Volcano

Rarely performed works from Third Reich Germany will feature in Forest Collective’s end of year concert. Written in a time of incendiary creativity and tyrannous oppression, this performance will offer a rare chance to experience works created both in opposition to, and in favour of the Nazi regime. 

In this era, where art and politics became fiercely entangled, notable composers included Isla Webber, Kurt Weill, Franz Schreker, Frederich Hollander, Mischa Spoliansky, Anton Webern, Alban Berg and Olivier Messiaen. Many works were written by composers during their imprisonment in concentration camps.

Kate Bright - mezzo soprano
Daniel Todd - tenor
Evan J Lawson - conductor
Kim Tan - flutes
Danae Killian - piano
Helen Bower - violin
William Cooper - accordion
Natasha Fearnside - clarinets
Rosanne Hunt - cello
Zela Papageorgiou - percussion
Trea Hindley - trombone
Ryan Williams - recorders
Phoebe Smithies - horn
Samantha Ramirez - harp
Ian Crossfield - double bass

Dates: 19 - 22 November

Times: Thursday 9pm (Dress Rehearsal $17.50)
Saturday 2pm
Sunday 7:30pm
2 hours

Magdalen North Laundries 
Abbotsford Convent
1 St. Heliers Street
Abbotsford 3067

Tickets: https://www.eventfinda.com.au/2020/dancing-on-volcano/melbourne/abbotsford

Standard First release : $28
Seniors First release : $23
Concession First release : $20
Student first release : $17.50
Available until 31 May

Standard Second release : $35
Concession Second release : $27
Student second release : $20
Seniors Second release : $30
Available 1 April until 31 Aug

Standard final release : $42
Seniors final release : $37
Concession final release : $34
Student final release : $25
Available 1 September 
 

PTV
10-15 min walk from Victoria Park Station (South Morang/Hurstbridge Lines)
Bus 200 or 207 to stop Clarke St/Johnston St (cross via bridge above road) and turn left at St Heliers Street
Tram 109, 12 or 48 to stop Victoria St/Nicholson St (Abbotsford) and 20-25 min walk up Nicholson Street
More info: abbotsfordconvent.com.au/visit/visitor-information