Less than three years old, Shaun Parker & Company has enjoyed success both at home and overseas. The Yard, a work about bullying and the cultural divide in the playground has just been nominated for a 2013 Helpmann Award, having won an Australian Dance Award in 2012.
Outdoor works Spill and Trolleys, originally commissioned for the 2012 London Cultural Olympiad, have recently played the Dublin Dance Festival, Whee! Children’s Festival in Nottingham, the Imagine Watford Festival, Highbury Park in London and will soon tour to The Netherlands.
Back at home, Shaun Parker & Company is about to tour the award-winning show Happy as Larry to regional and metropolitan theatres around Australia. Originally commissioned by the Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and New Zealand International Arts Festivals, Happy as Larry has also played venues across France and the UK including Sadler’s Wells. Combining ballet, break-dance, parkour, tutting, chalk art, roller-skating, basketball, acrobatics and pulsating dance, Happy as Larry explores the human condition. Happy as Larry brings together humour, pathos, and Parker’s distinctive dance aesthetic.
Happy as Larry company members will be conducting workshops in each city. Please click here for more information.
You can catch Happy as Larry:
10 July Orange Civic Theatre
12-13 July Civic Theatre, Newcastle
17 July Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre
20 July The Cube, Wodonga
24 July Griffith Regional Theatre
27 July Mildura Arts Centre31 July West Gippsland Arts Centre, Warragul
03 Aug Northern Rivers Performing Arts Centre, Lismore
07 Aug Frankston Arts Centre
9-10 Gasworks Arts Park, Melbourne
14-17 Aug Adelaide Festival Centre
22-23 Aug Darwin Festival
31 Aug Albany Entetainment Centre
03 Sep Mandurah Performing Arts Centre
10-14 Sep Seymour Centre, Sydney
For more info and booking details click here.