Topology’s Ten Hands evolved over an extended period in the quintet’s rehearsal room. Recording their collective improvisations, they each went away to listen back for the best moments, writing them out in staff notation. These fragments would be the basis of the next jam session, also recorded and also mined for new ideas. The result is a musical mystery tour, taking listeners through an emotional landscape of symphonic proportions. Ten hands, five minds working together as one.

Working with director Annie Lee, the quintet has created an immersive, enthralling theatrical experience with their epic one-hour composition. The music takes a very fresh approach, the five artists working intensely together to compose using creative processes as much derived from chamber music, progressive rock and theatrical improvisation as jazz and indie. The result is a powerful and moving emotional journey, playful, meditative, and bold music presented with thoughtful staging and beautiful lighting. Really, there’s nothing else quite like this happening today.

DIRECTED BY Annie Lee
LIGHTING DESIGN BY David Walters
COSTUME DESIGN BY Bill Haycock
MUSIC BY Topology

Saved by music — how a ratty bunch of housemates rise above their surroundings. In Share House, the band have been living together in one house for as long as anyone can remember. The only things they own of any value are their instruments and they use their music to escape the squalor.

With a whole host of original music, and the direction of Annie Lee, Topology have created this unique theatrical experience not to be missed. Come and share Topology’s exploration of the rubble beneath their alter egos and their ultimate transcendence through music.

DIRECTED BY Annie Lee
LIGHTING DESIGN BY David Walters
SET DESIGN BY Bill Haycock
MUSIC BY Topology

Topology works with rhythmic genius/drum-kit soloist, Grant Collins and tap-dance wizard Bill Simpson to create bold new territory in both music and dance.

Grant pushes all the artists to the edge of rhythmic possibility, never compromising groove, and Bill dances on the precipice, creating new space with his body and resounding shoes. Three features new original compositions for drums and tap, and Topology’s saxophone, strings and piano.

It’s a fearsomely energetic performance that brings together ideas and inventions from 3 distinct genres to generate something both unfamiliar and intoxicating.

Ocean’s Skin brings together TOPOLOGY and one of America’s most acclaimed contemporary dance companies, HEIDI DUCKLER DANCE THEATRE to immerse the senses in an exquisitely beautiful blend of music and movement.

True to their art and reflecting their fascination with the interplay between the heavens and the seas, their sounds and their life forms, Ocean’s Skin premiered in and around the Queensland Cultural Centre’s ‘WHALE MALL’ at Brisbane’s Southbank for Brisbane Festival in 2014.

In Ocean’s Skin, three dancers and five musicians merge like rivers meeting the sea, their fluid movement and ethereal sounds from the composer’s newly-devised Water Instrument washing over the audience, drawing them like sirens into the alluring depths of this profound yet delicate piece.