The Museum of Local History

The Museum of Local History is an ambitious performance platform that involves a collection of events held in cultural and heritage sites. The process consists of interpreting historical anecdotes and movement research in selected landscapes to inspire rigorous physical responses from performers that result in abstract movement and imagery that resonants with Place. 'The Museum of Local History' offers audiences a deeply immersive, intimate journey at locations chosen as uniquely regional.
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image Paul Hopper
# 1 SCOTT'S HUTT
Scott's Hut is an immersive, site-specific performance and pilot project developed with and for solo dancer, Olivia McPherson in 2020. Made for an intimate audience. to view at dawn it utilises the natural lighting and ambience of the site, a rudimentary shelter in Bournda National Park, that was crafted by Thomas Scott in 1890.
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image curtesy of Gun Powder Trading Post
#2 THESE WALLS
These Walls this project's impetus and subject related to the Gun Powder and Trading Post a 150-year-old building situated in Wolumla and the creative potential of this heritage building as a catalyst for live performance using the body, object, sound and image. 
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