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D.I.V.E. Theatre Collective is a Sunshine Coast-based multicultural contemporary theatre company that provides performing arts experiences of the highest calibre for audience members who come to see our shows, artists in search of purposeful development opportunities, school students and the community who participate in our training program and engagement activities. Our Vision Our aim is…
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Megan O'Hare

Megan O’Hare

Originally from Ireland, Megan is a performing artist and student at the University of Queensland. She joined D.I.V.E Theatre Collective’s Ensemble in 2021 due to her shared belief in the potential of art to effect change. She is convinced that there is immense value in exploring and celebrating the multitude of (sub)cultures and experiences existent…
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Priscila da Cunha

Priscila Da Cunha

Priscila Da Cunha is D.I.V.E. Theatre Collective’s co-founder and Producer. Originally from Brazil, she has resided in Australia since 2013. She serves as a Drama and English teacher at a Steiner School on the Sunshine Coast, directing and producing five full-length theatre performances annually. Priscila holds a Master of Arts in Comparative Literature from the…
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Cesar Genaro

Cesar Genaro

Originally from Brazil, Cesar has called Australia home since 2013, immersing himself in the performing arts as an actor, director, teacher, and sound and light designer. With a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism from the University São Judas (Brazil), he brings eight years of experience in film and television production from São Paulo. As a director…
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Exodus

Exodus was the winner of the 2022 Horizon Festival Anywhere Award. Moving, engaging, emotional, inspirational! 2021 Audience member Inspired by the stories of local migrants, Exodus is a collectively-devised contemporary physical theatre performance that focuses on real and metaphorical migrations and raises the question: what unites people who decide to leave their native land? From…
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Diver.city Inside-Out

A celebration of diversity and multiculturalism on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. At a time when physical restrictions to connect with one’s place of birth are imposed by the COVID-19 outbreak, fifty local migrants were invited to share their experiences of arriving in Australia & the Sunshine Coast and of being torn between two cultures. Their…
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Credit: Vlad da Cunha

Stories of Dis.place.ment

This project explored the theme of “displacement” in the Noosa shire through performing arts. This topic included discussing immigration, travel, exchange of cultures, and all kinds of “displacement” of people and nature in the region. D.I.V.E. Theatre Collective ran two free performing arts workshop based on this theme with people from the community (actors, singers,…
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Into the Light

A thought-provoking story about connections, disconnections, choice and freedom. In an immersive physical theatre soundscape, the show takes the audience on a poetic journey into the world of consumerism and social media.

2023 TOUR DATES:

SUNSHINE COAST: 5, 6 and 13 May

BRISBANE: 19 and 20 May.

Urban Twitters: Dis.connect.ed

Two-minute pieces on the streets of Noosa Junction – stories of love, hate, relationships, fragmented selves, connections and disconnections motivated by the life experiences of our performers, offering new perspectives on what it means to be oneself and the other in actual and cyberspace. Each scene brought something unique, be it humour, depth, sophistication, repulse, mockery,…
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Credit: Vlad da Cunha

Dis.connect.ed: A Short Documentary

What connects us to our cultural heritage? How do we make a deep connection to place and culture? Can we become disconnected from a place’s historic and social value for the past, present and future generations? Where do real space and cyberspace come together?  Funded by the Regional Development Arts Fund (a partnership between the…
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