“If grief is love persisting, then rage is love exhaling”

— Emele Ugavule, Kalaga Atu (2022)

Concept and process: Sam Chester and Emele Ugavule
Devised and Performed by: Alex Henderson, Bridget Bourke, Sookyung Shin, Mia Fitzgerald Riley Warner, Oliver English, Tom Bitti, Dinasha Perera, Angelo Torres, Josh Everett, Uisce Goriss-Dazeley, Antony Press, Deep Sroa, Soph Hanley
Featured Musician: Zoe Hawksworth 
Stage Manager: Shannon Moulton

A collaboration between WAAPA and the Oceania Centre for Arts, Culture and Pacific Studies, The University of the South Pacific in Fiji as part of the New Colombo Plan.

Do our emotions determine out beliefs and values, what motivates us as humans is it love, rage, despair, forgiveness or need. Or is it just science an activation of certain regions in the brain nothing more? 

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Bachelor of Arts, Acting, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts