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Harbourside Shopping Centre’s waterfront is once again filled with music and this time, it’s a tall and colorful custom order for the audiences.
The Australian center is a venue for the Adelaide Fringe’s The Sirens that performed at the mall every Thursday to Sunday during April. Located on Sydney’s Darling Harbour, the evening shows took full advantage of the water that created a sparkling backdrop for the multitude of LED lights incorporated into The Sirens’ costumes.
The Sirens are a performance group of four-meter tall divas projecting a kaleidoscope of flashing LED lights. Greg Clarke, executive director of Art Engineers, said the group was originally created for the 2015 Adelaide Fringe Parade.
“A highly skilled group of designers, lighting experts and builders in Adelaide created the Sirens,” Clarke noted. “Power-wise, they are totally self-sufficient.”
That powerful independence comes from a car battery hidden in the folds of the skirt, and it takes a team of three for movement. The visible ‘siren’ at the top plays the character, while two other team members are underneath the skirt to push the apparatus for movement. Sirens for the Darling Harbour performance were uniquely musical with four Sydney-based vocalists—one man and three women.
“In Adelaide the performers in the Sirens did not sing, but for Darling Harbour we brought in a musical director and contracted [the] singers,” Clarke said.
Two one-hour shows were performed nightly, split into a half hour of promenade strutting followed up by a 30-minute musical performance.
An Annual Draw
Fringe festivals provide accessible avenues for independent theatre artists to produce and perform for an audience. Performers can submit and it can be bold and uncensored, which is the true essence of performance artistry and the core of the fringe festival. This year’s Adelaide Fringe supported more than 5,000 artists, performing 1,100 shows at 430 venues.
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