Know where you are and who you are with. This is ceremony. This is tradition. – Emily Johnson

SHORE in NARRM (Melbourne) is a multi-day performance installation of four equal parts: Community Action, Story, Performance and Feast.  It is a celebration of the places where we meet and merge – land and water, performer and audience, art and community, past, present and future.

Over the course of a week, SHORE in NARRM will include volunteer actions in partnership with local Indigenous and community organisations, a curated reading by Melbourne-based authors, theatrical performances that begin outdoors and move into the theatre, and will culminate in a giant, festive potluck feast.

Emily Johnson is a Bessie Award-winning choreographer and Guggenheim Fellow who makes body-based work. Originally from Alaska and now based in New York, she is of Yup’ik descent, and since 1998 has created work with her company – Emily Johnson/Catalyst – that considers the experience of sensing and seeing performance.

SHORE in NARRM continues Arts House’s ongoing exchange program with New York’s Performance Space 122. The exchange program allows audiences to experience the thriving and innovative contemporary performance scene that Melbourne and New York, have come to represent.