new works in development

KASEKTEN  

in development since 2021

Kasekten is a dance, live music and performance art work in collaboration with Javanese metal vocalist Karina Utomo and Australian visual artist Michaela Gleave. A ceremonial morphoses inside an art  installation setting resembling a volcano crater, the work takes its structure from the Javanese understanding of the cyclical nature of time and seen and unseen worlds, to weave an arc in which powerful forces interplay, and embedded patriarchal histories are inverted to create a new future.

director & choreographer: Juliet Burnett

composer: Karina Utomo

installation artist: Michaela Gleave

lighting designer: Jenny Hector

costume designer: Felicia Budi

costume supervisor: Aleisa Jelbart 

producers: Michaela Coventry, Ratri Anindyajati 

production manager: Alex Torney

performers: Juliet Burnett, Karina Utomo

The development of Kasekten has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body; and the Regional Arts Development Fund, a partnership between the Queensland Government and the City of Gold Coast Council to support local arts and culture in regional Queensland.

We acknolwedge the Traditional Owners of the lands in which we worked, the Gamaragal People, and we pay our respects to their Elders past and present. Sovereignty has never been ceded.

MIASMA

in development since 2023

A dance-theatre work. A fantastical dystopia. 

We have finally killed everything, except three humans, but after the trauma they have forgotten how things once were. They attempt to build new life, with occasional lapses of memory informing a darkly magical iteration of life on Earth in the future. 

director: Juliet Burnett 

choreographer: Juliet Burnett with the dancers

composer: Dylan Sheridan

dancers: Allie Graham, Zee Zunnur

The development of Miasma is supported by HOTA; the Regional Arts Development Fund - a partnership between the Queensland Government and the City of Gold Coast Council to support local arts and culture in regional Queensland; and Experience Gold Coast, Australia.

We acknolwedge the Traditional Owners of the lands in which we worked, the Kombumerri families of the Yugambeh language region, and we pay our respects to their Elders past and present. Sovereignty has never been ceded.

RORO XENO

in development since 2024 

A solo dance work with music by Kasimyn (Gabber Modus Operandi, Björk, Samsara film). Underpinned by the lore of Java in tension with Western ideologies, Burnett shapeshifts between Javanese folkloric deities and demons inherent in her ancestry  as an allegory for the eternal cycle of becoming. Working with the traditional medium of pointe shoes, merged with Javanese and contemporary dance and Silat; with Kasimyn’s music blending traditional with fantastical electronic sounds, all  creating a surreal world grounded in the visceral. 

Choreography & performance: Juliet Burnett

Music: Kasimyn 

The development of RORO XENO has been supported by Potato Head, Bali, Indonesia.