and shown his work across Europe and Australia. His work spans theatre and site-responsive performance, media art and public art. He is also a well respected master teacher and has led performance and theatre departments at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and Victorian College of Arts, University of Melbourne. This will be the first project Robert has directed in the USA. During the In<Time 2019 festival Robert will be artist in residence at Hyde Park Art Center where he will work with the collaborators on Johnny. This is the second Goat Island performance Robert has responded to. In 2014 Robert directed the response to It’s An Earthquake in my Heart in Melbourne, Australia, details here: http://robertwalton.net/project/its-an-earthquake-in-my-heart/

Parameters of Creative Response

The research and development workshop will alternate between recreating aspects ofto return to 1991 in their own lives, scouring family photos and videos in order to revisit the innocence of an earlier time. Such a return is our place to start. We will discover the rest of the performance by making it together.

In practical terms performers will spend at least two hours per day working together on the recreation of movement sequences which are in themselves exhausting and complex. Each day will also include developing, presenting and responding to new material created by the individuals and the group. Group exercises and improvisations will be led by Robert and the collaborators each day. We will also visit the Goat Island archive which contains artefacts from the original production, notebooks, video, photographs, reviews and ephemera from the original production and