Showing
When: Friday, August 30, 3:30-4:40pm and 6:30-7:40pm
Where: The Breakout at The Mill, 154 Angas Street, Kaurna Yarta
Cost: $10 (+ booking fee)
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The Mill has two entrances, the main entrance on the corner of Angas and Gunson Street and an accessible entrance further down Angas Street.
Both doors are locked from the outside, there is a doorbell on the main door that will alert The Mill team. They will meet you at the accessible entrance to welcome you into the building.
The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.
Read more in-depth information on our accessibility web page.
Join us for the first Breakout Makes showing, showcasing three local artists in a fun and intimate variety show.
Breakout Makes is a new pilot program designed to provide artists with a regular platform for sharing newly developed work with audiences.
Aiming to build an open and inclusive community of makers across different disciplines and to bring audiences into the process of making new work, encouraging them to value the ‘blood, sweat and tears’ that goes into creating a performance.
About the artists:
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A performing arts maker for 30 years, Jo specialises in theatre that’s comical, musical, interactive and provocative.
Prolific in her output, invention and creativity, she has produced short films/video, full length theatre pieces, solo/duo cabaret acts & full length shows, comic pieces, roving characters, songs, clown theatre shows, workshop series, workplace performance content, music theatre.
Founding member of Restless Dance Company and Slack Taxi, Artistic Director of No Strings Attached for 5 years, she has trained with master teachers OS and has an ADV DIP in screenwriting.
Jo aims to make works that connect, explore and celebrate what it means to be human.
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Dalmas Otieno is a 39 year old contemporary dance artist born and raised in Kenya. He began his dance career in 2006 with Pamoja dance group. Pamoja dance group consists of mixed ability dancers with and without disabilities. Able?...Disabled?...Differently abled.
With Pamoja dance group, Dalmas won the US Embassy diversity and culture dance competition award in 2010
Dalmas has featured in different productions with Pamoja dance group that include; mother tongue, Koncrete City, Mkwezi, Elephant Stories among others.
Dalmas has also featured in two music videos; 'Simama' by Mutinda and 'Politricks' by Namatsi Lukoye.
In 2012 during his brief holiday in South Australia, Dalmas conducted a few dance workshops at Restless Dance theatre which saw him perform his solo piece 'Three Phases' for the restless dancers and their parents/caregivers.
In 2013 he collaborated and performed with C.i.e Wayo, a France based dance company. He performed M'aime Pas Mal (I like me) in different festivals across 8 cities in France with Kenyan dancer Mani Mungai and British dancer John Bateman.
He has also worked on some solo projects along the way; 'Three phases' (2010) and 'Je Vous Aime Aussi' (2014)
Dalmas uses body movement to pass across message and mainly encourages people living with disabilities that they can turn their so-called disadvantage to be their greatest advantage. He believes that losing his leg was a blessing in disguise.
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Poppy Mee is an actor, writer and theatre-maker. She creates highly theatrical performances steeped in satire, existentialism and a thick dollop of whimsy.
As an screen actor Poppy has appeared in Stateless, Lucy and DiC, as well as having co-wrote and performed in Hamlet In The Other Room at Rumpus Theatre and numerous independent projects locally and interstate.
PSYCHOPOMP is Poppy's second solo work, which she is currently redeveloping for its sophomore season at Melbourne Fringe Festival. Poppy is a proud MEAA member.
"She could be the child of Apollo and Dionysus in the flesh" ★★★★ The Adelaide Show Podcast
“Poppy Mee has a natural flair for storytelling.” ★★★★ 1/2 Mindshare
“Funnier than many stand-up comics mining the same field.” ★★★★ The Clothesline
“Acting chops and storytelling are second to none” ★★★★ 1/2 Upside Adelaide
