"There are many ways to judge art’s success, but a vital one is that it moves the audience. By this measure and many others, SK!N is a highlight not just of OzAsia but of the entire year."

Glam Adelaide Sept 2016

After being registered, processed and stripped off their belongings; the audience are squashed into a 40-foot custom configured shipping container and watch three dancers poetically embody the traumatic cycle of forced migration, detention, deportation and human trafficking. Then the container moves and the audience, startled, are shipped off and dumped at a previously unknown location around the city.

Venue Format
Outdoor
Technical Rating
The production can be modified to suit most venues
Touring Party
8
Considerations

The production needs a dedicated producer to do the following things prior to the arrival of the Tour Company:

1) Secure an outdoor/indoor venue that fits 2 x 40foot Shipping containers and a Prime Mover 2) City Council and Police Permits to use public roads (about 2km) for transportation of the audience 3) Broker a relationship with a local human rights/asylum seeker NGO as the project's local community partner 4) Secure 20x Volunteer performers (Can be members of the NGO or from local dance schools) 5) Secure a small shop lot/gallery space/warehouse for the registration/processing and post show elements of the show. Ideally this space is not to far from the Shipping Containers 6) Liaise with a haulage/Trucking company to hire 1x 40foot Curtain Side Loader (as the audience Container) and a dedicated Prime Mover driver for the entire show run to drive the Performance Container.

Formed in 2004 with the intention of providing artistic solutions, TerryandTheCuz has since established itself as a company with a truly global appeal. We have designed, written, directed and created work for theatre, dance, puppetry and art installations for companies, governments, festivals and artists across Asia, America, Europe and Australia.

Since 2010 TerryandTheCuz have written, designed and produced ‘My Lingam Speaks’, ‘Klue,Doh!’, “The Bee Project’, ‘Flatland; An Adaptation in Dance’ and ‘Welcome2Flatland’ an Interactive Public Art Installation inspired by the work in dance. We are currently working on the American premiere of ‘The Bee Project’, a contemporary Malaysian adaptation of Hamlet, a graphic novel/augmented reality project titled ‘UnderKL’ and ‘SK!N’ a new work in contemporary dance, which was recently presented in Kuala Lumpur and at the 2016 Oz Asia Festival in Adelaide, South Australia.

TerryandTheCuz strives to write, create and design intelligent, humorous, passionate, visceral performance art that reflects and engages with our changing society, and to attract newer and more diverse audiences to the arts. We seek to constantly develop and extend our collaborative performance-making practice with artists both local and abroad, to find new forms, voices and narratives in all our endeavours.

Company Website
terryandthecuz.com

Unique Selling Point

Listed as the ‘Highlight of the Festival’, our Australian Premiere of ‘SK!N’ enabled us to successfully trial, test and showcase all aspects of the show; including the safe moving of a live audience inside a custom configured shipping container. From all the glowing responses and reviews; we were thrilled to see that the work had successfully evoked a visceral and empathic response from our audiences. The unique performance concept, bold design and stunning choreography, effectively managed to uncover questions about human dignity and the commodification of people whilst reminding the audience of their attitudes and responsibilities towards human rights.

Marketing Materials

We have the following marketing material/collateral available:

1) Full Teaser Video 2) Full Trailer Video 3) Poster Design 4) E Flyer Design 5) Show Footage and Images 6) Media Kit and Production Pack 7) Full Press Release

Community Engagement

TerryandTheCuz aims to work with local Human Rights NGO's and Refugees/Asylum Seekers/Victims of Human Trafficking in each city ‘SK!N’ travels to. By working closely with local NGOs/Human Rights Organizations in each Town/City/Country; we hope to enlighten local audiences about how Human Trafficking affects and is embedded within their locality. So whilst this is a global issue; understanding how this problem affects them directly will help change attitudes towards refugees and victims of trafficking.

Our most significant goal for this project is; by the end of our 5 year journey; we hope to have worked with and connected every different NGO and Human Rights Organization from different Towns, Cities and Countries forming what we hope would be a formidable network of agencies and peoples who have dedicated their lives to combating this pandemic.