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Speaker 1: the performance is called Time, and it's set to be

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Speaker 1: to welcome Grace Hendry, Good morning to you, Grace, good morning,

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Speaker 1: And of course Chloe Calikajaris, good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning.

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Speaker 1: Lovely to have you both in the studio. And I look,

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Speaker 1: I love seeing young people do incredible stuff, and you

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Speaker 2: Chloe, So, Time was first created in twenty eleven and

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Speaker 2: it's a unique in thought provoking work from the Slide

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Speaker 2: Awareness trilogy YEP. It was created as a passionate response

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Speaker 2: the Territory and slides powerful, bold, and fiercely provocative. Company

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Speaker 2: artists deliver a performance with honesty that is both beautiful

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Speaker 1: What's it like for you guys performing you know something

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Speaker 1: that is so heavy? I guess, and it is heartbreaking.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the show is. Honestly, it's quite tough to do.

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Speaker 3: It's quite emotional. Often we all have a little cry together,

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Speaker 3: but our slide dances are so incredibly comforting towards each other.

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Speaker 3: It's like we're one big family over there. So everybody

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Speaker 1: A resident artists.

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Speaker 3: In company are there, so that's wonderful to give us

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Speaker 1: And that's really important, but it's such a like it's

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Speaker 1: how important do you feel it is to you know,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it is. It feels like such an honor to

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Speaker 3: I'm not quite sure if the number, but I believe

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Speaker 1: It's shocking fortune only August. That's exactly right. We've still got,

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Speaker 2: So I'm a member of the party crew. So we're

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and what about you then, Grace.

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Speaker 3: So I have the quite unfortunate role of playing the

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Speaker 1: So, Chloe, what is the key message that it sort

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Speaker 2: So it's just trying to encourage people to you know,

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Speaker 1: And Grace, you know, it's a heavy like it is

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Speaker 3: It feels so incredibly important to both of us, and

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Speaker 3: hopefully in that split second they'll think I saw this

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Speaker 3: It's not it's my time to yeah, potentially leave.

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Speaker 1: That's yeah, it's such a good point. Now, how long

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Speaker 2: We've been working so we had our last show in

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Speaker 3: Yes, we work forty two weeks out of the year,

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Speaker 1: But other than that, it's go time.

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Speaker 3: Let's go go.

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Speaker 1: Now, tell our listeners when are the performances happening? And

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Speaker 1: I'm assuming that there are still tickets available?

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Speaker 3: Yes, there are currently three shows have sold out, so

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Speaker 3: you get to quickly. Yeah. Our shows are from the

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Speaker 1: Waful, how awesome? How many how many people are involved

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Speaker 3: They think? There's yeah, roughly in your whole cast and

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, that's so great. Look, I think it's a

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Speaker 1: It'd be great, wouldn't it to see some of those

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's ultimately the goal is we want to try

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Speaker 1: So, and is it recommend like is it for is

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Speaker 4: heavy no, which, you know what, which is fair enough.

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Speaker 1: I think that sometimes that's what needs to happen. But

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Speaker 1: I think it's really admirable as well to see young

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Speaker 3: I sure did.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for having wonder. Thank you Ka,

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Speaker 1: no worries at all. Lovely to speak to both Grace

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