| Who we are |
Mirabelle Wouters and Lee Wilson founded branch Nebula in 1998. They create distinctive, hybrid movement-based performance combining dance, theatre, acrobatics, music and design to create powerful and visceral experiences for audiences.
For the last decade Branch Nebula has been challenging the social structures governing everyday existence with a unique artistic vision. They offer audiences a diverse view of popular and contemporary culture, and place the recognition and exploration of diverse cultural expression, in all of its multitudinous glory, at the pinnacle.
Branch Nebula’s Helpmann nominated Paradise City, produced by Performing Lines, premiered at the Studio of the Sydney Opera House in 2006 and toured all over Australia as part of Mobile |
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States (2008). Paradise City also toured to four international festivals in Brazil (2007).
In 2004 they co-produced Plaza Real with Urban Theatre Projects, a physical theatre show for 6 performers, in the roles of director and designer; and conducted a creative development for Mrs. White, a solo performance by Mirabelle Wouters. In 2002 they remounted Sentimental Reason at Performance Space, Sydney and at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts.
In the same year, the company created Cattle Prod, a new short work whilst in residency in Brussels (Belgium) at ‘Les Bain Connective’. In May 2002, Branch Nebula presented Sentimental Reason, Cattle Prod and Rose Turtle Ertler at KC Nona in Mechelen (Belgium). Mad Red, a full-length work, was their first production and was presented by the Victoria Festival in Ghent (Belgium) in 2000, before touring to Bern in Switzerland for the Auawirleben festival. |
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| I have been working for over twenty years as a theatre maker, director, and performer. I work across genres to combine my knowledge of acting, acrobatics and dance to create a unique vision of contemporary theatre. I am currently performing and touring in Shuan Parker Projects Happy As Larry (Sydney Festival, Perth festival, Wellington Festival). Last year I directed The Football Diaries (Urban Theatre Projects), which will tour to the world cup in South Africa. I graduated from Nepean, University of Western Sydney in 1991, and have devised and performed with Australia’s major physical theatre companies, including Force Majeur (Sydney Festival), Acrobat (3 years of international and national touring), Legs On The Wall, Stalker, Theatre Physical, Gravity Research Institute and Post Arrivalists. I was Movement Director on Urban Theatre Projects’ two Sydney Festival shows, Back Home (2006) & The Last Highway (2008), and on Mechanix, a large scale outdoor work (2003), as well as PACT Theatre’s Song Of Ghosts (2004). |
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| Mirabelle is a Belgian set and lighting designer, a graphic artist, a contemporary dancer and choreographer, and an industrial design graduate. Mirabelle is a founding member of Branch Nebula and has been living and working in Sydney since 2002. 2009 design credits include the set and lights for The Football Diaries produced by UTP and The Riot Act produced by Campbelltown Arts Centre; and lights and choreography for The Hosts: A Masquerade Of Improvising Automatons at the Performance Space Gallery. In 2008 she was the set and lighting designer for Urban Theatre Projects’ The Last Highway for Sydney Festival. In 2007 Mirabelle designed the set for Martin Del Amo’s dance solo Never Been This Far Away From Home to open the Performance Space’s first season at CarriageWorks. In 2006 she was a co-creator and designer for Branch Nebula’s Paradise City. In 2004 she co-created and designed the set, lighting and costumes for Plaza Real and for a solo performance: Mrs White, both for Branch Nebula. |
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