ABSTRACT
This creative case study focuses on three of the community groups contributing to a large-scale performance event made up of twelve groups. Twilight, a multi-site work with the theme ‘sensing sea, sky, earth through connection to place,’ was performed for and with the Townsville (Australia) community across fourteen sites in Jezzine recreational park. Comprising 167 participants, the project was led by a team of professional artists and community arts leaders. Together, performers and audience members descended winding paths in a promenade performance, beginning at dusk and finishing in moonlight. Dancers and musicians, parkour performers and a sixty-five strong a capella choir performed along with senior women movers (both indigenous and non-indigenous) and an intergenerational disabled group. All contributed to a collaboration that deepened existing community relationships and built new ones through the shared experience of connecting people to place.
