Traffic

A pop-up drive-in dance work created during the pandemic when all the theatres were closed as a way to keep on dancing, keep on performing and keep on connecting with each other despite isolation measures. Seven dancers, an original live score from Adelaide Hills band Indiago, a vintage caravan bar, and the soundtrack beamed straight to the audience through their car stereos. Audiences stay in their vehicles and the stage sits in the middle of the carpark.

It premiered in the round at Wayville Showground on 6 November 2020 — a first showing for forty cars at sunset. It can also play without the cars, or as a straight indoor work. Local bands and artists can use the same infrastructure as a curtain-raiser or a full drive-in night.

About twenty-five minutes. Can be run more than once in a day. Built to land in a flat outdoor space with minimal get in and then leave just as quick, as it was found.