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Tickets $10, Cinema Piece is suitable for 15+

Artistic duo Deep Soulful Sweats transforms the iconic Ritz Cinemas into a live film set—and you're part of the action.

Cinema Piece is a work about facing the climate crisis together. Combining live art, video and audience participation, it’s a genre-defying performance without spectators, where everyone plays a vital role. With humour and hope, this communal experience provides an exhilarating antidote to apathy through collective action.

Deep Soulful Sweats has a loyal following for its shape-shifting events, performing at Rising Festival, Dark MOFO, Perth Moves, and festivals across the world.

Curated by Vital Commons
Accommodation Partner: Scape
Venue Partner: Ritz Cinemas

Photo: Gregory Lorenzutti

Accessibility

Accessibility information is available on the event booking page and Ritz website.

About Deep Soulful Sweats

Sarah Aiken & Rebecca Jensen / Deep Soulful Sweats have a 10-year history of creating experimental choreography and participatory performance, crafting unique experiences for theatres, galleries, community, film, music & site-responsive contexts. Their work slips between codified forms and unbridled invention, considering participation, how we come together and our complicated relationships to national identity, environment and a warming climate.

Deep Soulful Sweats has grown a loyal following for its shape-shifting events, encouraging people from all walks of life to step out of their thinking minds and into their bodies. Joyful, thoughtful and inclusive, Deep Soulful Sweats works are a surprising and exhilarating experience for anyone and everyone.

Recent highlights include: COMMUNITAS (Rising 2024 with SHOUSE), What Am I Supposed To Do? (WAISTD) (Arts Centre Melbourne 2019), Astrological dance (Perth Moves 2024, ANTI Festival Finland, Homo Novus Latvia 2023), Equinox (Castlemaine State Festival 2019), and participatory work for kids Stage School (Fed Square, Benalla Art Gallery 2024).

About Vital Commons

Vital Commons arose from a passion for the unending possibilities of art and the profound capacity of artists to envision more connected and equitable futures. Their new approach to public art embraces authentic collaboration with leading makers and thinkers, and is grounded in extensive curatorial knowledge and public art expertise.

Vital Commons remembers that people are the heart of ‘place-making’—and endeavour to care for, listen to, and positively impact the individuals, communities and environments their projects touch.

Uniquely, they nurture artists throughout the process, offering curatorial support that encourages creative expansion and ensures the delivery of thought-provoking, site-specific and innovative contemporary artworks.

Vital Commons takes care to understand what makes each project different and respond with a depth of consideration that celebrates diverse demographics, is attune to natural and urban environments, and deeply respects cultural heritage.

Truly reflective of our times—and the places we belong—their community-affirming projects reimagine the vital role of art in common space; inspiring a renewed appreciation for communality, a public of critical thinkers, and a shared sense of togetherness.