The Little Mermaid

ABOUT THE EVENT

A small scale ballet

The youngest son in a mobility aid-using family runs away from his Mandurah home, looking for the love he deserves on land in the alluring but emotionally distant white Prince. 

Reimagined as a modern ballet about local lives, The Little Mermaid reckons with the power and fragility of love and growth on the margins. 

Made with care by a disabled-led team of underrepresented theatre, dance and music collaborators – this ballet bravely defies conventions, merging neo-classical aesthetics with realism through Patrick Gunasekera’s nuanced and compellingly human choreography. 

Performed to a complex recorded score by local composers Tiffany Ha, Ben Buchanan and Rebecca Riggs-Bennett, this coming-of age shimmers with adolescence’s brilliant and bitter triumphs of surviving amidst invisibility