The Mobile States consortium is now seeking expressions of interest from artists across the performing arts, for works to be considered for touring in 2011. We will undertake two tours:

• A conventional tour of a single work;
• A contemporary performance event featuring multiple works of diverse genres & formats.

In addition to small to medium scale full length works (up to a touring party of ten), Mobile States is expanding its call to include durational works, short works, performance installation, live art events and site-specific works, which could be programmed in the touring performance cluster.

Mobile States has a particular interest in those artists whose practice is concerned with experimentation, research and the investigation of ideas and form. It is interested in innovative works created by small scale or project based companies.

To be eligible for consideration the works must have premiered in a professional production by the proposal deadline, Monday 8 February 2010.

Works are selected by the Directors of the consortium’s presenter members, according to the Mobile States curatorial principles outlined below:

Works selected for touring must:

• Employ multiple performance languages;
• Be conceptually, formally or technologically ambitious;
• Contribute to current cultural and/or artform developments;
• Be dramaturgically coherent; and
• Have attracted positive critique in press and by peers.

Expressions of interest must be received by COB Monday 8 February, and must include ALL of the following:

o A description of the work which outlines the content and form, and addresses the relevance of the work to the objectives of Mobile States. An artistic rationale, not marketing copy.
o Biographies for the company and key artists
o Brief technical specifications
o Audience and box office figures (if relevant) for previous seasons
o An indicative budget summary showing remount costs and weekly running costs
o Key Press reviews/critical comment (Do NOT include minor preview stories, listings etc)
o A completed coversheet form summarising your proposal.
• Be a maximum of 8 pages (excluding clippings)
• Be in the format of a single PDF file, emailed to mobilestates@performinglines.org.au
• Include a completed cover sheet form, downloadable from www.performinglines.org.au
• Include a documentation DVD. A short highlights showreel is optional, but we cannot program a work without seeing documentation of the complete performance.

Mobile States members are:
Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide Presenter www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au
Arts House Melbourne Presenter www.artshouse.com.au
Brisbane Powerhouse Brisbane Presenter www.brisbanepowerhouse.org
Performance Space Sydney Presenter www.performancespace.com.au
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts Perth Presenter www.pica.org.au
Salamanca Arts Centre Hobart Presenter www.salarts.org.au
Performing Lines Tour Producer www.performinglines.org.au

2010 & Past Tours

In 2010, Mobile States is touring Urban Theatre Projects’ The Folding Wife and the first Contemporary Performance Cluster.

Past tours were: roadkill and lawn (Splintergroup, produced by Dancenorth & Brisbane Powerhouse), and Marrugeku’s Burning Daylight (2009); Branch Nebula’s Paradise City and Dancenorth’s Underground (2008); Back to Back’s small metal objects and Lucy Guerin Inc.’s Love Me (2007); Tanja Liedtke’s Twelfth Floor and version 1.0’s The Wages of Spin (2006); de Quincey Co’s Nerve 9 and Chamber Made’s Phobia (2005); and Jenny Kemp’s Still Angela (2004).

For more information visit www.performinglines.org.au; call Harley Stumm at Performing Lines on (02) 9319 0066 or Steven Richardson at Arts House on (03) 9322 3714
Email mobilestates@performinglines.org.au or steven.richardson@melbourne.vic.gov.au

Where to send your proposal
Written proposal (a single PDF file and a completed coversheet form)
Emailed to mobilestates@performinglines.org.au
DVD & hard copy
Posted to: Performing Lines, 5/245 Chalmers St, Redfern NSW 2016
Do not include written material in the hard copy that isn’t in the emailed PDF – it will not be distributed.

Be quick - applications close Monday February 8, 2010!

Mobile States – National Touring Initiative is supported by the Australia Council,
the Australian Government’s arts funding and advisory body.