What are you plugging right now?
The Wine Project, a delicious-smelling dance theatre show where we make wine, dance on French barrels and commit a few of the seven deadly sins, all to live music. It’s a crazy show to perform. Afterwards you feel like you have been dunked in a barrel of spice and wine. It’s the most delicious hangover. It’s on as part of Tempo at Q Theatre from October 5-8. On a different note, we are performing Dirt and Other Delicious Ingredients for kids and families at the Bruce Mason Theatre for the school holidays. It’s a delightfully squishy dance show.
"We use lots of vines and greenery in the Wine Project... I go into "florist" mode and start strewing leaves and spice everywhere. It's my happy place." Sacha Copland
What’s your idea of perfect happiness?
another direction. Luckily, we found them again pretty quickly but we definitely felt a little sheepish.
Ever stolen anything?
Just space. When I started Java Dance Theatre I used to fantasise about going into buildings with nice wooden floors and just setting up camp and dancing and refusing to leave. Maybe one day I will.
What do you most dislike about your appearance?
civilisation in Africa, to the moment when wine was first discovered, to the fertile crescent when it was still fertile, to the moment when tango was created in Argentina, to Jackson Pollock’s studio, to Paris in the 1920s and 1930s. I am fascinated by all the moments that have led to this one.
What life lesson would you pass on to your children?
Be courageous, take risks and let yourself be massive.
What job would you do other than your own, and why?
Secretly, I would love to be a florist at one of those shops that is full to the brim with greenery, brambles and flowers. The smell alone would be divine. We use lots of vines and greenery in the Wine Project and the rest of the cast always laugh at me when I go into ‘‘florist’’ mode and start strewing leaves and spice everywhere. It’s my happy place.
If you were given three wishes by a magic genie, what would they be?