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Calling all performers, puppet makers and visual artists!

Erth encourages applications from people from diverse backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds, people who identify as LGBTQI+ and people with disabilities.

See below for current recruitment opportunties.

PERFORMER CALLOUT - CAIRNS CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL - MAY 2024

We are presenting Erth’s Shark Dive at Cairns Children’s Festival from 18-19 May 2024.

We are now seeking performers aged between 16 and 25 years old to join our team during the season. Training/rehearsals are from 15-17 May with daytime performances on 18 and 19 May at the Tanks Arts Centre. This is a paid professional engagement with on-the-job training provided.

Women and First Nations performers are encouraged to apply.

We are looking for people who:

· are self-motivated

· follow instruction

· are team players

· have a genuine sense of curiosity and inquiry

· have a great level of fitness and/or body awareness

· have great stamina both physically and mentally

· have a good sense of humour.

ABOUT SHARK DIVE:

Erth’s Shark Dive is an interactive theatrical experience that brings audiences up close and personal with the much-maligned predator of the sea. Groups of up to 25 people are taken through a darkened space to experience a shark dive without getting wet.

They are met by the show’s Host and asked to make a choice - "Play it Safe" or "Take a Risk". This will determine which soundtrack they experience through a set of silent disco headphones. They’re then led into a “decompression chamber” where they’re introduced to the world of the show, and given instructions. At which point they’re led into the darkened performance space and into a 2.5m x 2.5m shark cage.

There is a team of 4 puppeteers who populate the performance space with an array of smaller aquatic puppets (leafy sea dragons, stingray, 2D bull shark) before the hero puppet emerges - a 4m great white shark.

The group is then led into a separate “viewing chamber” to watch the next group in the cage through a scrim, while their headphones play an alternate soundscape. The whole experience lasts around 40 minutes per session. Sessions run every 15 minutes across a 3-hour window for a morning block of 10 sessions, with a break followed by an afternoon block of 10 more sessions, allowing up to 500 people through each day.

How to Apply
Applications are by Expression of Interest. Please provide the following:

description of yourself; age, height etc. along with your relevant skills/experience.
a brief explanation as to why you think you'd be perfect for the gig, and;
a drawing of yourself with a great white shark!

EOI's can either be written or video (iPhone quality is fine) but your picture with a great white shark must be a real drawing!

Email us at info@erth.com.au

Applications close 5pm on Monday 22 April 2024.