Casus – DNA. Photo Gallery by Kate Pardey

At Adelaide Fringe this year (2019) Casus premiered their biggest show to date. It features performers Lachlan Mcaulay, Jesse Scott, Phoebe Carlon, Kali Retallack, Johnny Brown, Sarah McDougall, Mayu Muto and was directed by Jesse Scott and Natano Fa’anana.

This beautiful photo gallery of the show is by one of our contributing photographers, the excellent Kate Pardey. Kate, unfortunately, is taking a step away from performing arts photography (and photography in general) as she has spent a decade photographing weddings to subsidise the cost of shooting the performing arts. That’s a huge loss for the community as from my observation, Kate has always approached documenting theatre and circus with a love and empathy for the artform and its practitioners that goes beyond the usual documentation requirements. For me this is another sad trickle-down effect from the massive lack of funding for the circus arts in Australia and companies not being able to pay properly. We wish her the very best with her next adventures and will keep celebrating her back catalogue of work on the CC Mag.

We hope you enjoy DNA through Kate’s lens.

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Here’s the trailer for DNA (Footage shot by Carnival Cinema)

Kate Pardey – Carnival Cinema Contributing Photographer

Over the past three years, Kate Pardey and her camera have been unintentionally creating a photographic survey of the real moments of the friends and performers on the travelling carnival circuit of some of the world’s largest performing arts festivals (particularly the Adelaide and Edinburgh festival fringes/fringe festivals). A world she first entered as a quiet kid sent to theatre class in the Adelaide Hills who slowly grew to love the world behind the stage, and then as a professional stage manager and lighting designer.

Website: https://katepardey.com/

Instagram: @katepardey

Facebook: Kate Pardey Photography

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