Suburban Superheroes with Sprung Dance Theatre and Jorge Serra

Suburban Superheroes celebrates the power and strength of extraordinariness amongst an ordinary world. It is a photographic series of portraits, featuring artists with disability from Sprung Dance Theatre. The artists are captured in their local community of suburban (ordinary) Ballina, in self-made original superhero (extraordinary) costumes. It is the creative outcome of a disability-led process, developed in collaboration with Sprung Artistic Director, Daniele Constance (identifies), neurodivergent artist, Sarah Lewis (Lewis), and photographer, Jorge Serra.

Sprung Dance Theatre Artists: Alexandra Cost-Chretien, Alice Misty Boschenien, Tara Coughlan, Rhys Waldon-Goodlet, Ryan Ellison, Samantha Groenestyn, Sylvia Lindsay-Bender, Zachary Mifsud.

“We are all artists. See us. Hear us. Smell us. Feel us. Know that we exist.” - Sprung Dance Theatre Artists

Sprung is a not for profit community organisation based on Bundjalung Country in the Northern Rivers of NSW. Sprung creates new contemporary work and provides critical opportunities for artists with disability and/or who are d/Deaf and living in the region.