What's remarkable is that Back to Back aren't some legacy state theatre company or a national ballet or opera. They're a group based in regional Victoria, about an hour outside of Melbourne.They've built their reputation and become one of Australia's leading performing arts international exports by making work that defies conventional expectations.
Gladwin says their works often play with "the audience's discomfort with disability" but, ultimately, they're "just trying to make the best art we can possibly make". While the company had made screen works before, Shadow, an adaptation of their 2019 show, became their first feature film. It premiered at South by Southwest in Austin in 2022, where it won the Audience Award.Price has been a member of Back to Back's ensemble since 2007 and appears in Ganesh, Shadow and their latest work.
Ensemble member Simon Laherty, who has been with the company since 2003, explains: "During the devising, we get a scenario and try to work out what would happen in that scenario; we improvise. And we talk about it later on." The ensemble is off on tour for up to 20 weeks a year, and have performed at London's Barbican Centre, the Holland Festival and the Vienna Festival.
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