It’s A Matter Of Time

Forest Collective presents a season of solo and chamber music concerts at The Eleventh Hour Theatre, Fitzroy. Exploring the nature of art as a vessel for healing, intimacy and wonder, It's A Matter Of Time will feature dance, music and poetry from local Naarm-based artists and composers, alongside contemporary and canonical works.

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the performance of Tonic originally scheduled for Friday 4 October 7.30pm has been cancelled. We apologise for any inconvenience this causes and hope that those who were wanting to attend Tonic will join us at another one of our October performances.

We will keep you updates of when Tonic will be re-staged in the future.

Folding

Curated by Forest Collective’s Kim Tan, Folding explores modern subjectivity and the inexorable relationship creativity has with the past. This entanglement is a metaphor for Kim’s own creativity and the expression it finds within her body. Folding is layered with musings on the dialectic between past and present, which find voice through early and new music, period instruments and contemporary dance.

The centrepiece is a new commission for baroque flute and percussion by Evan J Lawson, which reimagines period instruments beyond their historical context, giving them contemporary expression through New Music.

Folding will reach back in time to return the staid form of the ‘Baroque dance suite’ to its historical origins in movement and the body, and will be given visceral modern expression through the haunting choreography of Ashley Dougan. This tension between stasis and fluidity will be further explored through interwoven improvisatory works, with drone, based on excerpts from Jordi Savall’s Lachrimae Caravaggio.
Date & Time:

Friday 18 October 7.30pm

Venue:

Eleventh Hour Theatre
170 Leicester St, Fitzroy VIC 3065
Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country
Located roughly 50m from corner of Leicester and Gore Streets

Accessibility notice: There are steps upon entry to The Eleventh Hour Theatre. The Eleventh Hour Theatre has two steps to enter the venue, and a third step to enter the performance space.

Unfortunately, this means that the venue is not wheelchair accessible, and may not be mobility aid accessible.

Book all three performances in this season with a 30% discount by using the promo code 3SHOW.

Artwork by Jasmin Bardel

Program:

Échos – Jacques Hotteterre

Suite No. 1 - Michel de La Barre

Conversation I (improvisation)

The present makes relevant the past – Evan J Lawson (world premiere)

Conversation II (improvisation)

Suite op.1, no.5 – Pierre-Danican Philidor

Artists:

Kim Tan: Traverso flute, performer and curator

Meredith Beardmore: Flute

Rosanne Hunt: Cello

Evan J Lawson: Artistic director, composer

Ashley Dougan: Dance and choreography

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My Heart

“Nights I wander the world’s city streets, looking for you and talking to you, my heart.”

- Danaë Killian

Maverick pianist Danaë Killian will show the world her cracked and shining heart in a thrilling solo recital, inspired by German Expressionist poet Else Lasker-Schüler’s provocative work Mein Herz: Ein Liebesroman mit Bildern und wirklich lebenden Menschen (1912).

My Heart is a musical escape from the scintillating, but ultimately doomed artistic counterculture of pre-World War One Berlin, so powerfully evoked in Lasker-Schüler’s novel.

My Heart is made of music by Danaë’s beloved local composer friends, by Danaë herself, and by Arnold Schoenberg, Lasker-Schüler’s contemporary, who once gave the poet money in a time of need.

Lasker-Schüler’s Berlin of 1911 bleeds through Danaë Killian’s My Heart into our Naarm-Melbourne, and in so doing invokes themes of night-wandering, soul-homelessness, and starry yearning.

A portion of the proceeds from this performance will go towards the creation of an album of My Heart.

Date & Time:

Saturday 19 October 7.30pm

Venue:

Eleventh Hour Theatre
170 Leicester St, Fitzroy VIC 3065
Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country
Located roughly 50m from corner of Leicester and Gore Streets

Accessibility notice: There are steps upon entry to The Eleventh Hour Theatre. The Eleventh Hour Theatre has two steps to enter the venue, and a third step to enter the performance space.

Unfortunately, this means that the venue is not wheelchair accessible, and may not be mobility aid accessible.

Book all three performances in this season with a 30% discount by using the promo code 3SHOW.

Artwork by Jasmin Bardel

Program:

Drei Klavierstücke, Op. 11 (1910) – Arnold Schoenberg

Möbius for solo piano (2012) – Howard Dillon

Asphyxed (1991) – Christine McCombe

My Prussian Blue Heart for pianist, tarot cards, and piano (2017) – Danaë Killian

The Seventh Centre (1992) – Amelia Barden

Birth Music (2006) – Colin McKellar

Two Minds: Four Pieces for Solo Piano, Op. 73 (2004) – Gregers Brinch

Sikinnis No. 3 (2015) – Evan J Lawson

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It’s A Matter Of Time

‘Time that is moved by little fidget wheels is not my time - the flood that does not flow.’

- Kenneth Slessor

The artists of Forest Collective come together for a tumultuous journey through beauty, melancholia, desire, and irrepressible energy, as they explore humanity’s struggle with the inexorable passage of time. Through music, the most temporally linear of all art forms, It's A Matter Of Time grapples with the shared experiences of our short lives against the backdrop of nature’s sprawling eternity.

Date & Time:

Friday 25 October 7.30pm

Venue:

Eleventh Hour Theatre
170 Leicester St, Fitzroy VIC 3065
Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country
Located roughly 50m from corner of Leicester and Gore Streets

Accessibility notice: There are steps upon entry to The Eleventh Hour Theatre. The Eleventh Hour Theatre has two steps to enter the venue, and a third step to enter the performance space.

Unfortunately, this means that the venue is not wheelchair accessible, and may not be mobility aid accessible.

Book all three performances in this season with a 30% discount by using the promo code 3SHOW.

Artwork by Jasmin Bardel

Program:

Morgen for Soprano and Piano - Richard Strauss

Colombine "X..watching others burn for me" for Horn - Barry McKimm (world premiere)

Selections from The Naked Cello collection for Cello - Helen Mountfort

Piano Sonata, Op. 1 - Alban Berg

Selections from Sept Papillions for Cello - Kaija Saariaho

Old Wool Road for Soprano and Horn - Jared Yapp (world premiere)

Dissolve, Oh My Heart for Violin - Missy Mazzoli

Eurydice for Mezzo-Soprano and Piano - Evan J Lawson (world premiere)