https://www.michaelpigott.org/new-home daily 1.0 2021-10-28 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/616ab6f99455af4d3a197f18/t/617a0e290819a566b3bc7d67/1635389729947/55A35E87-C631-4CD2-9C14-48D32B10677A.jpg Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.michaelpigott.org/portfolio daily 0.75 2021-10-27 https://www.michaelpigott.org/portfolio/project-three-byhzg monthly 0.5 2021-10-28 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/616ab6f99455af4d3a197f18/616bf9f1d3c0cf534b82ce42/616ea8b12f94cf3f1e692834/1634642098279/3B5952A0-9302-4CC1-B12E-12C2AD1AE553.jpeg Portfolio - Julius Caesar https://static1.squarespace.com/static/616ab6f99455af4d3a197f18/616bf9f1d3c0cf534b82ce42/616ea8509a6a8c132fddc319/1634642000878/IMG_4045.jpeg Portfolio - Julius Caesar https://static1.squarespace.com/static/616ab6f99455af4d3a197f18/616bf9f1d3c0cf534b82ce42/616ea87b7dfca21fad39f8b7/1634642043290/IMG_4103.jpeg Portfolio - Julius Caesar https://static1.squarespace.com/static/616ab6f99455af4d3a197f18/616bf9f1d3c0cf534b82ce42/616ea8ebcde6cf5007a9cd9e/1634642155491/IMG_4191.jpeg Portfolio - Julius Caesar https://static1.squarespace.com/static/616ab6f99455af4d3a197f18/616bf9f1d3c0cf534b82ce42/616ea857068f8c673126f2aa/1634642007622/IMG_4216.jpeg Portfolio - Julius Caesar https://static1.squarespace.com/static/616ab6f99455af4d3a197f18/616bf9f1d3c0cf534b82ce42/616ea830b0672c4afae3bc1c/1634641968807/IMG_4231.jpg Portfolio - Julius Caesar https://www.michaelpigott.org/portfolio/project-two-cfs2m monthly 0.5 2021-10-17 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/616ab6f99455af4d3a197f18/t/616fe18956d60b47fb33ef89/1634722203158/9D4FBCD3-B974-4511-A724-1F518AFED5B9_1_100_o.jpeg Portfolio - Do Something Else Do Something Else was a collaborative cross disciplinary research project that explored creating a ‘dramaturgy of distraction’ – a way of structuring a piece of theatre that articulated our propensity as human beings to always need to be doing something else. It might be best summed up in the statement I wrote for a blog called Talking Arts: “Let us take for example, a bus ride – it could be easy to say that you get on a bus and go from home to work. Whilst you are on that bus you might have a really important thought that will change your life forever or you could just look out the window. But when you break it down, what you are actually doing on the bus is a series of overlapping things, these may not be active things but they are things you are doing nonetheless. You are: Physically sitting in a seat that is in a vehicle that is moving very fast Listening to a podcast Passing a street that reminds you of an ex- partner Suddenly feeling a series of emotions that you can’t quite pinpoint or name because you have never felt them before Do Something Else is a piece exploring how all of these things are related in some way and it is also about how we make sense of their interrelatedness. For example- the podcast you are listening to or the feed that you are engaging with at that moment might determine the name you give to the feeling that you have never felt before.” Michael Pigott, Talking Arts, 2016 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/616ab6f99455af4d3a197f18/t/616fe4a02b6e7a20b64e037b/1634722994542/IMG_3135.jpeg Portfolio - Do Something Else - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/616ab6f99455af4d3a197f18/t/616fe59f2b6e7a20b64e1332/1634723245762/IMG_3174.jpeg Portfolio - Do Something Else - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/616ab6f99455af4d3a197f18/t/616fe5beec4dd54004c4bbf9/1634723285248/IMG_3196.jpeg Portfolio - Do Something Else - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/616ab6f99455af4d3a197f18/616bf9f1d3c0cf534b82ce61/616c08e96435442e2d4b43e3/1634470121523/IMG_3054.jpg Portfolio - Do Something Else https://static1.squarespace.com/static/616ab6f99455af4d3a197f18/616bf9f1d3c0cf534b82ce61/617a602831f21f4e1c4eb2c7/1635409960084/IMG_3164.jpg Portfolio - Do Something Else https://static1.squarespace.com/static/616ab6f99455af4d3a197f18/616bf9f1d3c0cf534b82ce61/617e7a85402c013f8fff292c/1635678853073/IMG_3184.jpeg Portfolio - Do Something Else https://static1.squarespace.com/static/616ab6f99455af4d3a197f18/616bf9f1d3c0cf534b82ce61/616c08e57b5e9a46a99a7fc3/1634470117339/IMG_3064.jpg Portfolio - Do Something Else https://static1.squarespace.com/static/616ab6f99455af4d3a197f18/616bf9f1d3c0cf534b82ce61/617e777a0cf39d73c5478d34/1635678074380/IMG_8829.jpg Portfolio - Do Something Else https://static1.squarespace.com/static/616ab6f99455af4d3a197f18/616bf9f1d3c0cf534b82ce61/617e7aeced88161ecbfcd502/1635678956118/IMG_3151.jpeg Portfolio - Do Something Else https://static1.squarespace.com/static/616ab6f99455af4d3a197f18/616bf9f1d3c0cf534b82ce61/617e7a8fae046e0af4131ea1/1635678863718/IMG_2969.jpeg Portfolio - Do Something Else https://static1.squarespace.com/static/616ab6f99455af4d3a197f18/616bf9f1d3c0cf534b82ce61/617e7b3aa5fcd26d065ba09f/1635679034620/Do%2BSomething%2BElse_%2BRyuichi%2BFujimura%2B%26%2BBrigid%2BVidler.jpg Portfolio - Do Something Else https://www.michaelpigott.org/portfolio/knots monthly 0.5 2021-10-28 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/616ab6f99455af4d3a197f18/t/617a5d46273a774ffeb87667/1635409222540/25300005_1715847078473850_1972947774262351977_o.jpg Portfolio - Knots - KNOTS Devised by Gareth Boylan Giles Gartrell-Mills Kerri Glasscock Michael Pigott Performers Giles Gartrell-Mills Kerri Glasscock Michael Pigott Set Design Kerri Glasscock and Michael Pigott Lighting and Sound Design Michael Pigott Stage Management Maddie Osborne https://static1.squarespace.com/static/616ab6f99455af4d3a197f18/t/6173edd7c2019362567517f4/1634987479375/IMG_6501.jpeg Portfolio - Knots - Jerry in Orbit Jerry, weightless, pulls himself up level with the antenna. He reaches up an wrestles with the bolt. His gloved hands as clumsy as a drunks. Over the side of the ship a vast expanse of nothing but dark unfathomable. Behind him there is a light reflecting of the earth. He see refracted fragments of it in the shiny cladding but dares not turn around. Blue, green, oceans, landmass, atmosphere all reduced to fragments of colour. Jerry concentrates. In slow methodical movements he replaces the broken transmitter one bolt at a time it is not until the broken part is stowed in his leg pocket that he manoeuvres himself around and turns. It is something impossible to describe. The earth from this distance. Like falling in love. Maybe this is what being born feels like? Jerry is a giant. A Greek god perched on a metallic arm of a machine hurtling though space. For Jerry, the feeling of seeing the earth from this angle and distance is very specific a feeling that can only be described as…Tom Cruise. For Jerry in that instant, gazing down as the sun slips round the edge of the earth he has the impression that he is Tom Cruise. Not that he looks like Tom Cruise or feels like Tom Cruise might feel but that he is Tom Cruise and not just any Tom Cruise- not the couch jumping scientologist to old to take your shirt off in movies Tom Cruise but the beautiful flawed circa 1990 Days of Thunder Nicole Kidman Tom Cruise. His feathered hair stuffed into his helmet. He is grinning his Tom Cruise grin and his Tom Cruise heart is beating in his Tom Cruise chest and the earth is a tiny bubble below him getting smaller and smaller. Jerry does a spaceman fist pump https://static1.squarespace.com/static/616ab6f99455af4d3a197f18/t/6173ef0e42274b07c98c4dde/1634987790059/25300013_1715846901807201_1236148695752509309_o.jpg Portfolio - Knots - It is exactly at this moment that Jerry notices that there is something horribly wrong. A small tear. Just half a millimetre somewhere. That some jagged part of the piece that must have snagged whilst tightening the bolt. Suddenly he is not Days of Thunder Tom Cruise but Jerry and Jerry’s skin is starting swell. Jerry is growing lightheaded. Jerry’s saliva is starting to boil in his mouth. Jerry is losing consciousness. and in that endless moment between the realisation and slipping away he keeps looking at the earth- a tiny marble on a giant piece of black velvet and over and over again he keeps thinking. This doesn’t make any sense. None of this makes any sense to me at all. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/616ab6f99455af4d3a197f18/t/6173dcab3f41f3134dc1045e/1634983148275/Knots+Old+505.jpg Portfolio - Knots “Impressive, intense, provocative, Knots is a demanding yarn braided by focused and intelligent performances that sustain near on ninety minutes of twist right up to its enigmatic ending.” Australian Stage Online, 9th Dec 2017 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/616ab6f99455af4d3a197f18/t/617a192091f57e052ade39bc/1635422535180/IMG_6407.JPG Portfolio - Knots - “Most plays can be written down and re-staged, but Knots does not want to work that way. It is hard to imagine that the written word will satisfactorily capture its style and essence; its desire is to go boldly where no person has gone before.” Suzy Goes See 7th Dec 2017 https://www.michaelpigott.org/portfolio/project-three-5xrxb monthly 0.5 2021-10-23 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/616ab6f99455af4d3a197f18/t/617a1ce631f21f4e1c4b92ab/1635762782219/image001.jpg Portfolio - Once Under a Sky - “Pigott’s production is thoughtful and attractive, played against a rippled canvas wall suggestive of both waves and dunes (designed by Tom Bannerman) and buoyed by a score by pianist and composer Stu Hunter…The depth of development shows in the detail of the production’s sure-footed playfulness and the confidence and connectedness of its performers.” Jason Blake, Sydney Morning Herald, May 23, 2011 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/616ab6f99455af4d3a197f18/6173d83f3f41f3134dc0e147/6177d44e2040b832b1f85538/1635506539670/20110518-Once_Under_A_Sky-5.jpg Portfolio - Once Under a Sky https://static1.squarespace.com/static/616ab6f99455af4d3a197f18/6173d83f3f41f3134dc0e147/6177d44c08cf9e60aad37e49/1635243084779/Once_stagedesign-3.jpg Portfolio - Once Under a Sky https://static1.squarespace.com/static/616ab6f99455af4d3a197f18/6173d83f3f41f3134dc0e147/6177d44e86088607172b5f82/1635506647072/20110518-Once_Under_A_Sky-27.jpg Portfolio - Once Under a Sky Images: Patrick Boland https://www.michaelpigott.org/portfolio/project-three-5wxsj monthly 0.5 2021-10-28 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/616ab6f99455af4d3a197f18/t/617a440f4ad5962aa4462b1c/1635402770343/CF4A4CEC-7189-4F44-996A-10B326DD9D78_1_201_a.jpg Portfolio - In Transit - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/616ab6f99455af4d3a197f18/t/6177d2e552d15354d9068348/1635242736259/AE1F5AFD-8DAC-4028-83B7-635F8F761DF5.jpeg Portfolio - In Transit - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/616ab6f99455af4d3a197f18/6177cae2ab5a092753aa2a70/6177ce3fdb591f25cb5a7675/1635241535760/IMG_1133.JPG Portfolio - In Transit https://static1.squarespace.com/static/616ab6f99455af4d3a197f18/6177cae2ab5a092753aa2a70/6177cdeca391a956e3e9eb0b/1635241453020/IMG_0981.jpg Portfolio - In Transit https://static1.squarespace.com/static/616ab6f99455af4d3a197f18/6177cae2ab5a092753aa2a70/6177cdfb71592d63e27c7705/1635241467415/IMG_1295.jpg Portfolio - In Transit https://static1.squarespace.com/static/616ab6f99455af4d3a197f18/6177cae2ab5a092753aa2a70/6177ce1f8a783861e19a724c/1635241503957/IMG_1373.jpg Portfolio - In Transit https://static1.squarespace.com/static/616ab6f99455af4d3a197f18/6177cae2ab5a092753aa2a70/6177ce04a7f5340e622e9da2/1635241476765/IMG_1319.jpg Portfolio - In Transit https://static1.squarespace.com/static/616ab6f99455af4d3a197f18/6177cae2ab5a092753aa2a70/6177ce177a904e2a50f3127c/1635241495781/IMG_1581.jpg Portfolio - In Transit https://static1.squarespace.com/static/616ab6f99455af4d3a197f18/6177cae2ab5a092753aa2a70/6177ce3231f2cb0290f29798/1635241522568/IMG_1633.jpg Portfolio - In Transit https://static1.squarespace.com/static/616ab6f99455af4d3a197f18/6177cae2ab5a092753aa2a70/6177ce389785787f2bce5685/1635241528981/IMG_1330.JPG Portfolio - In Transit https://www.michaelpigott.org/portfolio/seeingunseen monthly 0.5 2021-10-28 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/616ab6f99455af4d3a197f18/t/6177dcdf781fbd3fd29850c9/1635245279142/IMG_5568.JPG Portfolio - Seeing Unseen - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/616ab6f99455af4d3a197f18/6177d95f5a250e736d8ef33b/6177da6e8710c81e1e2a1275/1635244654301/IMG_5442.JPG Portfolio - Seeing Unseen https://static1.squarespace.com/static/616ab6f99455af4d3a197f18/6177d95f5a250e736d8ef33b/6177da6ef114cd63e244fed7/1635244654287/IMG_5402.JPG Portfolio - Seeing Unseen https://static1.squarespace.com/static/616ab6f99455af4d3a197f18/6177d95f5a250e736d8ef33b/6177da6ebf197b2958a52f57/1635244654257/IMG_5551.JPG Portfolio - Seeing Unseen https://static1.squarespace.com/static/616ab6f99455af4d3a197f18/6177d95f5a250e736d8ef33b/6177da6b988ad60f87b2b8d7/1635244651288/IMG_5526.JPG Portfolio - Seeing Unseen