b'FORM DANCE PROJECTSENCOUNTERWORLD PREMIEREPRESENTED BY SYDNEY FESTIVALCOMMISSIONED AND PRODUCED BY FORM DANCE PROJECTS SUPPORTED BY SYDNEY YOUTH ORCHESTRAS AND FLING PHYSICAL THEATRESomeone puts a boombox down on the concrete I dont get it, I dont know how to be here1012JANUARYand I enter the space theyve opened up and I dance."See page 46 for performance timesYou are here in this place where the eels lay down and the cars light up and the McDonalds M is theFREE!biggest moon in the sky. Parramatta. Summertime. Early in the evening. Encounter is your invitation toPRINCE ALFRED SQUAREthe neighbourhood. (opposite Riverside Theatre)In this en masse, site-specific work of joy, directed by Emma Saunders, Encounter explores the everyday extraordinariness of being young and being in this place: from Parramatta, Western Sydney to the Bega Valley, on the NSW South Coast.Creatively developed with a cast of 16 young dancers and 48 young musicians of the Western Sydney Youth Orchestra, and in collaboration with a group of award-winning Australian artists including Felicity Castagna (writer, The Incredible Here and Now), composers Amanda Brown (The Go-Betweens) and Jodi Phillis (The Clouds), Encounter celebrates young people growing up in urban and regional communities.PRELUDEArrive early at Prince Alfred Square and bring your picnic blankets to enjoy Prelude, a warm-up to Encounter, featuring a rotating showcase of short performances by local dance revolutionaries and community dance leaders.Artists include flamenco diva Pepa Molina; Bharatanatyam dancer Aruna Gandhi; Polynesian Cook Islanders Pacific Dreams; hip hop sensation The Buggy Bumpers; Feras Shaheen and his Dabke dancing mother, Diane Busuttils Feisty Fems and Fellows; Forge Tap Quartet; the rocking contemporary Dance Makers Collective; and international Sharp Short Dance alumnus Billy Keohavong.6'