ABOUT DVA
DVA Theatre Company has been an established community theatre company for over 20 years. It is a company of adult performers with intellectual disability, working alongside volunteer facilitators and a professional Artistic Director. DVA meets weekly for a two-hour workshop throughout the year, with extended workshop and rehearsal hours in preparation for a performance. We are based in the City of Banyule, but members are welcome from anywhere, with participants, volunteers and artists coming from across Melbourne, including the Darebin, Nillumbik, Manningham, Moreland, Yarra and Whittlesea areas. Click here to see company bios
Over its life span DVA has created many public performances. In 2013 DVA presented the project 'A Cosmic Love', a project based in film and performance and presented at LaMama's Courthouse Theatre in collaboration with Platform Youth Arts. Click here to watch our first ever film A Royal Star.
Past work includes, 'TALL WORDS' a site specific performance in collaboration with the Yarra Plenty regional Library (Banyule Winter Festival), with sound, lighting, live music and improvised performance coming together to transform the Watsonia library, 2010.
In 2007/08 DVA developed and performed ‘River of Dreams’ (Banyule Winter Festival 2007, Welcome Platypus Festival 2008) and ‘City of Dreams’ at the High Vibes Festival (August 2007).
DVA’s 25 participants range in age from 18 to 60. DVA is always open to new members and has no selection process based on audition, making it a truly accessible theatre company for all interested adults with intellectual disability.
DVA aims to dissolve prejudices towards those with intellectual disability through its public performances, which encourage audience participation and visibility of people with intellectual disability in public spaces.
The Company is a not-for-profit, incorporated association managed by a committee of volunteers. It is listed on the Register of Cultural Organisations and is eligible to receive tax deductible gifts.
Project Funding is attained through successful grant submissions to local/state/federal government and philanthropy. Past projects have been awarded funding by; Arts Victoria, the Australia Council, the Reichstein Foundation, VICHealth, Banyule City Council, Nillumbik Shire Council, City of Darebin, the ANZ Trustees, the TAC and other bodies.
Click here to read the DVA Statement of Purpose
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Current News
Invisible Dances and the Ocean Yarn A Year of Development 2017 and 2018 "Spin me a yarn of the ocean, Spin me a colourful sky... Spin me around and upside down and watch the sun go by...." DVA Theatre Ensemble This year DVA has begun to embark on a brand new project which has sprung forth in response to the work of Arcko Symphonic Orchestra. Arcko's mission is the creation of an arc between heritage and emerging composers and to play its part in the establishment and preservation of an Australian music canon. The DVA ensemble have begun to create a piece of theatre based on dance and it's interplay with contemporary classical music, hip hop music, light, projection art, film making, sound recording, photography, fashion design storytelling and poetry writing. As we explore the hatching of new ideas and tell our stories, as we become the makers and weavers of time, we ask the questions... What lies beneath? What do we see and what is hidden in us and all? How can the heart of the sea be saved? Can you tell me a yarn of the ocean? Can we let the birds go free? Stay tuned for more exciting news soon.... |
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