The Sensationalists

(2015)

The Sensationalists. Photo by David Cooper.

Company 605 and Theatre Replacement team up to bring you a new experimental dance creation. In this cross-disciplinary collaboration, the artists explore concepts surrounding various sensory phenomena, transforming The Cultch’s Historic Theatre to play with proximity and interactivity in an immersive performance space, with the audience mobile throughout a large part of the show–placed inside of the action. Merging 605’s high-powered physicality and T/R’s unique theatre-making methodologies, this mash-up changes the relationship between audience and dancer, resulting in a compelling, immediate, and unexpected performance. The Sensationalists is directed by Maiko Yamamoto and created and performed by Josh Martin, Lisa Gelley, Laura Avery, Walter Kubanek, Jane Osborne and Lexi Vajda with sound design by Gabriel Saloman, lighting design by James Proudfoot and costume design by Leah Weinstein.