• Australian Government / Australia Council for the Arts
  • Brisbane Powerhouse Arts

Booth #3 SHAUN PARKER & COMPANY AND SYNERGY PERCUSSION & TAIKOZ

Tue 23 Feb 9:00am - 12:00pm Wed 24 Feb 9:00am - 12:00pm Thu 25 Feb 9:00am - 12:00pm

3 hours Sofitel Brisbane Central

Celebrating Australia’s leading percussion ensembles, Synergy Percussion and Taikoz, and Australia’s most innovative dance company, Shaun Parker & Company.

Shaun Parker & Company is one of Australia’s most wide-reaching dance companies. An innovator and pusher of boundaries, its work is widely accessible and has broad appeal, and its intrinsic relationship to music is a particular feature. Led by artistic director and choreographer Shaun Parker, the company has toured across Australia and internationally.

Synergy Percussion is Australia’s longest running and foremost contemporary music ensemble. A world of sound with percussion at its heart, the group recently celebrated 40 years of concerts, collaborations, recordings and commissions. Synergy Percussion remains vital and fiercely committed to defying expectations of what percussion music might aptly express.  

Taikoz has an international reputation for vibrant performances that couple explosive energy and extreme dynamism with refinement and grace. From the most delicate melodies of the shakuhachi to the thunderous impact of the odaiko, Taikoz is at once meditative and free-spirited, primal and dramatic. 

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Shaun Parker & Company and Synergy Percussion & Taikoz

Booth Holder 1 – Shaun Parker & Company

Shaun Parker & Company is one of Australia’s most wide-reaching dance companies, whose work is widely accessible and has broad appeal. An intrinsic relationship to music is a particular feature of what the company creates.

The company’s artistic and dramaturgical rigour has led to its work taking place on the stages of major international festivals, but it also resonates as strongly in public spaces, regional Australia and among high school students. Major festival works include AM I, Happy as Larry, This Show is About People, Blue Love and The Yard. Outdoor works include SPILL and TROLLEYS, with new works XY, TUT and Project Duo in development. 

Shaun Parker & Company recent major work AM I has toured the Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide Festivals, the MOVIMENTOS Festival in Germany, George Town Festival in Malaysia, and completed a European tour to Germany, Luxembourg and Sweden.

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Booth Holder 2 – Synergy Percussion & Taikoz

Synergy Percussion is Australia’s longest running and foremost contemporary music ensemble. A world of sound with percussion at its heart, the group recently celebrated 40 years of concerts, collaborations, recordings and commissions. Synergy Percussion remains vital and fiercely committed to defying expectations of what percussion music might aptly express.

Taikoz has an international reputation for vibrant performances that couple explosive energy and extreme dynamism with refinement and grace. From the most delicate melodies of the shakuhachi to the thunderous impact of the odaiko, Taikoz is at once meditative and free-spirited, primal and dramatic. Taikoz appears on the stages of Australia's finest concert halls, as well as those of Japan, France, South East Asia, the Middle East, New Zealand and North America.

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