MerrigongX Artists Project Presents The Lobster Commission Project

It’s part dance-cabaret, part documentary, and wholly something you’ve never seen before. Coming to the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre THIS WEEK, The Lobster by Lisa Maris McDonell weaves dance and movement pieces created by choreographers from around the world including Crystal Pite, Julie-Anne Long, Ryuichi Fujimura and Lacina Coulibaly amongst many others, with storytelling, video projection and original sounds by musicians and composers from the South Coast of NSW to create a work of protest and provocation. This is a performance that encourages audiences to consider the worth of artists within a society that asks for everything to have a dollar value.

The show will be in The Illawarra Performing Arts Centre as part of MERRIGONGX, 16 – 18 June. MERRIGONGX is an annual artists’ program that focuses on supporting artists to take creative risks. MERRIGONGX places artists and their practice at the centre of our community. From in-house creative developments to full-blown public presentations of new work, and everything in between, MERRIGONGX provides independent artists with financial, technical, marketing and artistic resources.

Merrigong wants to make it easier to experience new works, so there is no set ticket price for The Lobster. Instead, you simply reserve a spot, show up, then pay what you feel the performance is worth afterwards. Click here to learn more.