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 Pierrot Lunaire as part of 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.

Pierrot Lunaire

Arnold Schönberg’s epoch-defining expressionistic melodrama, setting the sensuous and unsettling poems of Albert Giraud (translated into German by Otto Erich Hartleben), will be performed in a small and intimate setting at the haunting North Laundries, Abbotsford Convent. 

Soprano Kate Bright, dancer and choreographer Ashley Dougan and a small chamber ensemble directed by Evan J Lawson will bring to life the evocative atonality of Schönberg’s score, which vividly explores Pierrot’s cascading episodes of moonlit desire, ecstasy and violence, blasphemy and belief, exile and haunting guilt.

Kate Bright - Mezzo Soprano

Ashley Dougan - Dancer & Choreographer

Evan J Lawson - Musical director & conductor

Kim Tan - flutes

Natasha Fearnside - clarinets

Danae Killian - Piano

Helen Bower - violin & viola

Rosanne Hunt - cello

Dates: 19 - 22 November

Times: Thursday 7:30pm (Dress Rehearsal $17.50)
Saturday 7:30pm
Sunday 5pm
1 hour

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