Roller Coaster

If you want to learn how to fly, you’ve got to learn how to fall.

Fierce, tender and explosive, Roller Coaster is a high-energy, action-packed spectacle featuring your towns local roller-skating legends.

This exhilarating participatory production explores the ups and downs of life on wheels through humour, heart and an electrifying live soundtrack.

Based on true stories, Roller Coaster journeys through the lives of skating humans who collide with their destiny, and are sent smashing into the very best versions of themselves, coming out bolder, braver, (and a little bloodier!) than ever before.

Featuring original live music, roller-skating, and a series of action-packed interconnecting stories, Roller Coaster is a deeply personal, thrilling and heart-warming ride to finding your tribe.

Roller Coaster was premiered at Bleach Festival on the Gold Coast from 3 – 5 Aug 2023 at HOTA Home of the Arts and will tour to Darwin Festival* for 3-nights only 14-16 August 2026!

The show is now available for presentation in communities across Australia.

Roller Coaster– The Residency
This project can be staged as a stand alone production or with a deep dive residency model delivered in multiple stages in communities.

This Residency format was piloted in 2022 as part of Bleach Festival on the Gold Coast. Over several days we were Company-In-Residence at local music and event precinct Miami Marketta, exploring Skate, Story and Song with a diverse collection of local skating humans. The Residency included; community song writing workshops, talks, choreographic experiments and performance event for all ages including- craft workshops & skate lessons, bands & performance showing.

*Darwin Festival season has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Festivals Australia program