Warming Up The Acrobats – PART 2

These were taken in theatres at the tail end of the tour, on the east coast of Australia from Cairns to Brisbane. Everyone’s pre-show rituals are different; body and mind requirements differ from show to show, and person to person. Some days you feel great. You spring into action and blast right through to the show. Other days you feel like a bruised slug, unable to get the motivation to do a single thing except stare blankly at the ceiling with wobbly eyes. Either way, you’ve got a show in 2 hours and it’s gotta be good. I attempted to capture different moods of my colleagues as they prepared for shows.

This set was taken with the Canon 6D & EF85mm f1.8.

Christian Schooneveldt-Reid and James Brown. This Side Up. 2014.

Christian Schooneveldt-Reid. This Side Up. 2014.

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Warming Up The Acrobats – PART 1.

The tour is over. And I’m glad to be home.

I’ve just spent 10 weeks on the road, travelling around Australia performing a show called Controlled Falling Project in regional theatres. 20-something flights, thousands of kilometres in trucks and minibuses, funny hotel rooms and pub meals, bad takeaway and amazingly fresh roadside produce, dawn and midnight fishing expeditions, and of course performing in amazing and historic theatres all over the country. It’s tiring though. I found myself on the tail end of the tour, in Townsville QLD, yearning for some colder weather. Now here I am in Melbourne, with no central heating, sitting on my couch with a jacket on in the middle of the day. It’s nice.

Anyway, here’s some shots of what happens before the show. More to come.

Christian Shooneveldt-Reid. This Side Up. 2014.