Wentworth marta dusseldorp12/5/2023 I’m a proud Yawuru woman from Broome, I needed to go back on country and be with my family. That’s how dramatic everything was in my head.Īnd I didn’t want to be stuck in Sydney on my own. It was the thought of never being able to practise dance in the way I’ve done for the last 14 years, ever again. Tara in Bangarra’s performance of Ochres. People need connection – it’s not to be taken for granted.ĭownload Husky’s album Stardust Blues Tara Gower, dancer with Bangarra Dance Theatre Whatever happens, I hope we emerge with a renewed sense of how magical the interaction between artist and audience is. I have musician friends telling me how great it is to go to bed early and get up and do yoga, after years of gigging, drinking and smoking every night. Gideon: Perhaps this whole thing will be a hard reset. I’m not the best suited to being on the road. As a writer, it feels like the songs are not real until we’ve played for an audience. There is the thrill of performing and the lifestyle that goes with it but the thing I miss most is rehearsing. Gideon: We haven’t been together as a band in a room for months and I’m quite surprised at the things I’ve missed. I felt very unsure about how we would even function as a band, how I was going to live. All that went out the window going into the pandemic. We had a release date in early June, we had a tour booked and some overseas travel. We finished an album just before everything shut down. Isolation isn’t the worst thing for a writer. Perhaps that’s something I’ll take with me when all this is over. I’ve gone places with my latest collection of songs that I would never have gone otherwise. But the isolation, the simplification of daily life, all the time on my hands and the uncertain future and the preciousness of the moment has helped me go deeper with my writing. Husky: This is the most isolated I’ve ever been, I think. It’s a very different approach to creativity. Now that life is on hold, I have these vast slabs of time laid out and I can do whatever I want – from lots to absolutely nothing. Writing music used to always be interrupted by life. I’ve been working to a schedule – which sounds boring – but there are hours I have in place. In some ways, isolation has been great for me. Gideon: I have my piano and that’s about it. Watch Wentworth Season 8 on Foxtel Husky Gawenda and Gideon Preiss, musicians and bandmates in indie-folk group, Husky It’s not just about the future of the arts. We’re giving them nothing to sustain them and that’s going to have a big impact. So I offered to read some stories in our accent, in our emotional language.Īustralian stories and voices are going to be so important for our children as they come out of this pandemic and yet we’ve stopped committing to kids’ drama on screen. I’ve also been doing some reading and recording stories for children because the thing I noticed while we were all homeschooling is that everything seems to be read by Americans. I don’t believe for a second that’s true. I think it’s to do with performers being cast as “non-essential” workers. Our job is to be as open and available as possible and after all this ends, I don’t know if I’ll be as open as I used to be. I think isolation is very hard for actors. Like everyone, my vulnerability has been tested over the past few months. It was like, is Bruce Willis going to come around the corner? I was able to shoot what was needed and managed to get to Hobart two hours before they closed the airport at midnight. I started panicking because Tasmania started talking about closing its borders and I hadn’t seen my family for a really long time. Masks and sanitiser started appearing on the set. So as Covid was rolling in, I found myself in this really interior world of a prison. I was in Sydney doing The Deep Blue Sea as news of the pandemic started to build and straight after that I flew to Melbourne to shoot Wentworth for two solid weeks.
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