Since I was 10 I was always involved in extracurricular activities playing in the Venezuelan Youth Orchestra or doing Youth Theatre. I caught the bug pretty early and was hooked.
I can’t imagine what I would be doing now if I didn’t have those opportunities. Living in the north of Adelaide I found that there weren’t a lot of artistic opportunities for young people.
That’s why I dreamed up True North Youth Theatre Ensemble. We are Adelaide’s newest youth theatre company. We are not even one year old yet we have already had our maiden voyage.
A Sense of Home was the first step in using theatre making as a teaching tool. I wanted the participants to learn by making. Under my direction, and with the help of all of the creative team, they have wrote the text, developed images, ideas, movement pieces, sounds, composed songs, were involved in dramaturgy and created puppetry.
A Sense of Home saw them operate the show, sing, animate, play and tell their stories. They have worked really hard and the majority of them had never been in front of an audience before. To say that I am mega proud of them would be an understatement. It has been amazing to create and collaborate with this amazing group of young artists.
I picked A Sense of Home as our starting project as for me it was important to start at the beginning. Starting a group from scratch, they didn’t know me and I didn’t know them. Yet I wanted them to collaborate, to play, share and create together.
So, we started sharing, introducing ourselves and finding out about each other – about who we are and where we come from.
As we started building our theatre company we also started to find out what we needed to create A Sense of Home.
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Listen to the ABC Radio Interview.
