SPIN

Melbourne Fringe Festival 2018, Theaterformen Festival, Hannover, Germany 2023, Norfolk Deaf Festival, UK 2023, Sydney Festival 2024, Ballet for the Masses, Berlin, Germany 2024, Let’s Ally Festival, Konstanz, Germany 2024.
Winner – Spirit of Fringe Award, Melbourne Fringe Festival 2018

Inspired by club scenes and social dancing practices in San Francisco, Cuba and Berlin, SPIN is an interactive and participatory dance rave performance event with three Deaf Hosts and a DJ. It celebrates connection, escapism and the ancient/modern powers of dance rituals.

SPIN is an intimate and playful interrogation of who can belong and coexist in dance rave realms, challenging assumptions that Deaf people do not belong in these spaces. SPIN celebrates the intersectionality of Deaf culture, disability, dance, and music. 

SPIN is a shared ritual between performers and audiences which invites joy, community and pleasure. It invites to see raves as sites of liberation, consolation and healing.

SPIN was first created and presented in Naarm (Melbourne), the traditional lands of the Kulin Nation and we pay our respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait peoples and all First Nations peoples whose sovereignty was never ceded.
SPIN acknowledges the original collaborators of SPIN and Mini SPIN in Melbourne and sincerely thanks them for their creative input and energy for this work.
SPIN has been supported and funded by Darebin Arts Speakeasy, Auslan Services, Pozible supporters, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Northcote Town Hall, Theaterformen Festival and Sydney Festival.

Guardian article written by Anna Seymour, January 2024

ORIGINAL CAST (Australia, 2018-2020)
Director/Producer Anna Seymour 
Choreography Consultant/Co-Producer Bec Reid
Deaf Host Performers Anna Seymour, Luke King & Robbie Burrows 
Dance Performers Amanda Lever, Benjamin Hoopmann & Jon Clarke 
DJs Callum Padgham & Gretta Olsen
Sound Designer Russell Goldsmith 
Light Designer Bronwyn Pringle 
Production Design Rhian Hinkley 
Photography Kate Disher-Quill
Video Jessica Barclay-Lawton
Production Manager Maxine Buxton
Deaf Audience Welcome Hosts Ramas McRae, Dexter Bone & Maya Sandon

CURRENT CAST (UK/Europe, 2023-current)
Director/Producer Anna Seymour 
Choreography Consultants Léa Tirabasso & Laura Weston
Deaf Host Performers Anna Seymour, Raffie Julien & Chris Fonseca
DJs Snataka (Adrian Lascano) & Lou P Scarlett
Light Designer/Production Support Bronwyn Pringle
Deaf Audience Welcome Hosts Luke King, Sofya Gollan, Darlene Thornton, Angie Goto, Dion Galea, Keira Trinh & Eyk Kauly
Photography Moritz Kuestner & Jacquie Manning

“SPIN is a truly consciousness raising experience that breaks boundaries and offers an appreciation and respect for the Deaf community.” Stage Whispers

SPIN and Mini SPIN PRESENTER PACK AND TECHNICAL/TOURING SPECS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.