A Brisbane Powerhouse And Dancenorth Co-Production Toured By Performing Lines For Mobile States 

Performers: Sarah-Jayne Howard, Grayson Millwood & Gavin Webber
Dramaturg: Andrew Ross
Composition and Sound Design: Luke Smiles / motion laboratories
Lighting Designer: Mark Howett
Rehearsal Director: Michelle Ryan
Stage Manager: Melanie Dyer
Production Manager: Stuart van Locker

Performance Space and Mobile States present roadkill, a stunning, highly physical and intensely unnerving piece of dance theatre.

A couple are stranded in the Australian outback with a car that won't start next to a phone box that doesn't work. This is a road trip into the agoraphobia and desolation of the Australian outback: a place of dreams and dust and ghosts. A land where backpackers disappear and tragedy strikes the vulnerable. Situated within the minds of its three performers, roadkill explores their fears and their twisted perceptions of the landscape and its dangers.

"Fuelled by a collective creativity and inventive stagecraft, it is dark, primitive and very exciting." Daily Express (UK)

Performers: Gavin Webber, Grayson Millwood, Sarah-Jayne Howard

Choreographed by Splintergroup, roadkill deals with these psychological states through a vocabulary of intense physicality. Using unorthodox, amazingly irregular movement and intense drama, roadkill is part road movie, part excavation into the urban legends and paranoia that surround the centre of this continent.

Splintergroup was founded in 2004 and is a flexible and collaborative group whose membership varies. Their extraordinary dance work Lawn was the hit of the 2005 Sydney Festival and was described by the Australian as "Simply one of the best things you will see in the theatre." In the 2007 Dance Australia Critics Survey, Splintergroup and roadkill were nominated seven times including ‘Best New Work' and ‘Highlight of the Year'.