red shoes profile

Dani Powell started making performances in Central Australia in 2000. In 2001 she began a creative partnership with Emily Cox which they called red shoes: a project-based company dedicated to fostering new directions in contemporary performance and new artistic collaborations across artforms.

red shoes works outside traditional theatre spaces framing the landscape through hybrid compositions of sound, light, projection and movement-based performance, drawing audiences into a new appreciation of the physical and social environment.

‘Director Dani Powell has a consistent commitment to working out-of-doors and often in unexpected places, opening our eyes to the qualities of a place that we may take for granted, even devalue.’ (Alice Springs News, May 31, 2007)

red shoes has brought together numerous artists to collaborate on various projects over the years and has produced a place 2 (Alice Desert Festival, 2005, Adelaide Fringe 2006), a place 1 (J Bird’s space, Watch this Space, Alice Springs Festival, 2004), unspun (Larapinta hills, 2002), the red shoes (Old South Road, Ilparpa claypans, 2001).

‘Red Shoes attempts a genuine engagement with complex contemporary history, producing a work that springs perceptibly from the confines and opportunities of the town’s community and landscape.’ (RealTime, Oct/Nov 2005, review of a place)

Under Today is the first work of red shoes since 2006. The project brings together a new ensemble of creative artists, including two interstate collaborators.