Rawcus is a critically acclaimed ensemble of performers with and without disability who create distinct performance work and deliver exceptional arts experiences. Collaborating with a core creative team led by Artistic Director Kate Sulan, Rawcus devises new work that expresses the imaginative world of the Ensemble. Drawing on dance, theatre and visual art disciplines, the work is crafted with a precision that supports the performers but allows space for their inherent sense of anarchy. Rawcus’ performance aesthetic is characterised by a marriage of intense physicality and arresting visual imagery. Rawcus’ work is sculptural, unexpected, beautiful, funny and tender.
Rawcus’ work has won numerous awards and has featured as part of Dance Massive, The Melbourne International Arts Festival, Next Wave and Melbourne Fringe. Rawcus has worked collaboratively with diverse Australian arts companies including Restless Dance Company, Born in a Taxi, The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Chambermade Opera.

Rawcus’ public program makes quality art works of meaning in and with the community enlivening people, places and perceptions

https://rawcus.org.au/about-us/the-company/

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Music Box Demo V1

Snow Edit5 Mix1

2013 Creative Development
LIve Recording

Nicholas Murray - Electric Guitar
Renato Vacirca - Drums.

Turbulence Live Recording 1

Encounters - Rawcus theatre co Flash Mob Oct 2016
Featuring Loops from the Buddha Machine!
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Encounters

Alone Together

July 2011, Arts House Meat Market

Small Odysseys is a work of grit and tenderness. It tells stories both intimate and vast.

A collage of images and moving pictures revealing moments of daring and glimpses of journeys from the epic to the everyday.

Small Odysseys plays with proximity and distance. The work shifts between intimacy and isolation and carries a yearning for home.

Small Odysseys features live music by Jethro Woodward and vocalist, double bass player Ida Duelund Hansen.

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Director Kate Sulan
Set Design Emily Barrie
Costume Design Emily Barrie
Sculptor/Designer Shaun Patten
Composition/Sound Design Jethro Woodward
Musicians Jethro Woodward & Ida Duelund Hansen
Lighting Design Richard Vabre
Production Management Megafun and Insite Arts
Assistant Stage Managers Harriet Gregory & Nick Wollan 

Performers/Creators
Steven Ajzenburg, Clem Baade, Michael Buxton, Rachel Edward, Nilgun Guven, Paul Mately, Mike McEvoy, Ryan New, Kerryn Poke, Louise Risiik, John Tonso & Danielle von der Borch

photographer: Paul Dunn

2011	Green room award- Lighting
2011	Green Room Nominations- Direction, Production, Design Integration, Sound

https://rawcus.org.au/productions/small-odysseys/

Boat Image 4 - Islands

The Forest

Boat Image 3

Would You Rather 2

Medussa

Rach Makes A Call

Would You Rather 1

Pauls Chair Dance

Moving Houses

Danni Make's A Call

Boat Image 1

A Giant Rock

A Landscape

“Hunger is a triumph, a theatrical work of courage and vision. And between sound designer Jethro Woodward and the six participants from the MSO, it has music to match.” The Age [full review]

Collaboration with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Arts House, Meat Market, Melbourne International Arts Festival, October 2007

Devised by Rawcus with musicians from the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Hunger was inspired by our experiences of love – whether lived, longed for, dreamed about, fabricated, suffered or rejoiced in. In developing the work, performers mined their personal experiences offering text, movement, images and music. Hunger is a collation of these responses.

This project brought together two companies from vastly different performance traditions and rehearsal processes. It was a remarkable and surprising collaboration marked by the generosity, faith, sense of humour and skill of the musicians as they collided with the honesty, rawness and unpredictability of Rawcus.

Director Kate Sulan
Set and Costume Designer/Co-Creator Emily Barrie
Musical Director/Sound Designer Jethro Woodward
Co-musical Director Gillian Howell
Lighting Designer Richard Vabre
Film Designer Nicholas Verso
Dramaturge/choreographer Ingrid Voorendt
Production Manager Tenth Street Group

Rawcus ensemble
Steven Ajzenberg, Clement Baade, Ray Drew, Rachel Edward, Nilgun Guven, Valerie Hawkes, Paul Mately, Mike Mc Evoy, Kelly Papas, Kerryn Poke, Louise Riisik, John Tonso

MSO musicians
Rachel Atkinson (cello), Sonia Baldock (violin), Stephen Fitzgerald (percussion), Craig Hill (clarinet), Cindy Watkin (viola)

photographer:Paul Dunn

2008	Classical Music Awards
Australian Music in Education
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Hunger
2007	Green Room Nominations
Outstanding Production
Outstanding Sound Design and Music
Outstanding Costume Design
https://rawcus.org.au/productions/hunger/

StringsCm Mix

Opening Dance

JETHRO WOODWARD is a Melbourne-based composer, musician and sound designer recognized for his expansive and highly layered film, theatre and dance scores.  A multi Green Room Award winner and nominee, he has worked with some of Australia’s leading major and independent companies including MTC, Malthouse Theatre, Belvoir Company B, Arena, Windmill, MSO, Rawcus, Stuck Pigs Squealing, Fragment 31, Lucy Guerin, Australian Dance Theatre, KAGE and more.

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