rawcus

“In a few short years, Mel­bourne com­pany Raw­cus has pro­duced a small body of work of an out­stand­ing qual­ity which, for me, ranks among the most excit­ing of the moment” - John Bai­ley, Real Time 2007

raw­cus is an ensem­ble of per­form­ers with and with­out dis­abil­i­ties. Col­lab­o­rat­ing with a core cre­ative team to devise new work that gives a voice to the imag­i­na­tive world of the ensem­ble, their work is crafted with a pre­ci­sion that sup­ports the per­form­ers while allow­ing space for their inher­ent sense of anar­chy. A series of mov­ing pic­tures, raw­cus’ work is sculp­tural, unex­pected, beau­ti­ful, funny and ten­der. raw­cus has col­lab­o­rated with com­pa­nies such as Rest­less Dance Com­pany, Born in a Taxi and the Mel­bourne Sym­phony Orches­tra and have pre­sented work as part of the Next Wave Fes­ti­val, Mel­bourne Fringe and the Mel­bourne Inter­na­tional Arts Festival.

raw­cus is under­pinned by an artis­tic phi­los­o­phy which:

• Embraces col­lab­o­ra­tion, imag­i­na­tion, the intan­gi­ble and the unexpected
• Invests in long-term rela­tion­ships with ensem­ble mem­bers to sup­port their con­tin­ued cre­ative devel­op­ment across a range of projects.
• Cel­e­brates human­ity and diversity
• Is inter­ested in find­ing the epic, the uni­ver­sal in the most per­sonal of stories
• Is com­mit­ted to cre­at­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties for artists with dis­abil­i­ties to develop their arts practice.

Insite Arts is work­ing with raw­cus to pro­duce the company’s new work, Small Odysseys, which will make it’s world pre­miere at Arts House in July 2011.