The AFL will join forces with Arts Centre Melbourne this September to celebrate one of the most dramatic Toyota AFL Grand Finals in history supported by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
On Thursday September 22, one day in September, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will play an originally composed soundtrack by Tamil Rogeon against vision of the most infamous draw in Toyota AFL Grand Final history.
The Draw: A Symphony – a live orchestrated screening of memorable moments of the drawn 2010 Toyota AFL Grand Final between Collingwood and St Kilda.
Football aficionados and dilettantes alike will remember where they were the year the nail biting Toyota AFL Grand Final day draw played out.
The Draw will showcase a specifically edited replay of the match, projected in Hamer Hall while the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra perform a commissioned score by Tamil Rogeon (RAAH Project, True Live), highlighting every dramatic leap, tackle, touch and goal.
Tamil is a composer, violinist, producer and a current Honorary Fellow of Melbourne University’s school of contemporary music. His work for The Draw will focus on athletic feats and failures as well as moments of tension, and even humour, throughout the game. Star players will have motifs and storylines, while snippets of broadcast commentary and crowd noise will also be used to dramatise the narrative.
The Draw will aim to emphasise the parallels between sport and art. An extraordinary athlete may display balance, elegance and economy of movement comparable to the skills of a dancer. An effective athlete, like a musician, must have the ability to improvise, collaborate, adapt to changing situations, make inspired decisions and sense the gravity of specific moments within the context of form.
AFL CEO Mr Gillon McLachlan said the 2010 Toyota AFL Grand Final will be the last Grand Final draw ever played , after the AFL changed its Grand Final rules earlier this season, and it was fitting the game would be reimagined this way.
“We have had just three draws in our history in more than a century of Grand Finals, but we will never have one again now that we have a fully national competition, as we can’t ask teams to potentially travel across Australia twice in consecutive weeks,” Mr McLachlan said.
“The final seconds in 2010 were amazing with Collingwood and St Kilda pushing themselves to the limit, but the whole game was a constant struggle for momentum and a winning advantage.
“It is a great collaboration with the Arts Centre Melbourne, supported by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, to showcase the highs and lows of an unforgettable match that can’t ever be repeated.
“Sport can sometimes be described as art but it truly will be special to have art bring sport alive,” he said.
PERFORMANCE DETAILS
The AFL and Arts Centre Melbourne present
The Draw: A Symphony with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne
Thursday, September 22, 2016
TICKET INFORMATION
Tickets on sale from 9am, Thursday June 30, 2016
Via www.artscentremelbourne.com.au
