| Joanna Dudley |  |
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I am a creator and performer of music theatre and use sound as the main element to tell a story. The form and content of a work will depend on what path I choose to explore- the roosters in the pavilion at the Australian Farmers Show, a yodeller from the Muotal Valley or a 92-year-old ukulele player. As an Australian, history proves that many of us have a healthy record in self-invention and it is precisely this, which makes my life in Europe a stimulating one. In Berlin at the Schaubuehne Theatre I have co-created and performed in music theatre works such as My Dearest My Fairest (with Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola), colours may fade with friction read instructions carefully store in a cool and dry place no side effects (with Esnaola and Rufus Didwiszus) and appear as a soviet-style woman executive in the aftermath of a World Trade Centre-style disaster in Sidi Larbi Chekaoui’s Foi. I enjoy witnessing and re-creating private moments- people doing very little or concentrating on a task no matter how understandable. In watching people you hear music, see purpose and ritual and find characters on stage that one can begin to believe in. [Joanna Dudley: »The Gaze Concentrated and The Ears Open«, Contemporary Theatre Review 14, Heft.1, Februar 2004, S. 89–105]
