Profile

Penne Thornton is a multidisciplinary creative producer working across performance, exhibitions, public programming, artist development and community engagement.
Penne has a research focus on collaborative, place-based practice and is an advocate for social justice and equity in the arts.





Image by Leiko Manalang-Frequin



Email
pennethornton(at)gmail.com


Select Projects

>A People’s Guide to (North) Geelong
>Duwa
>Anything & Everything
>WiCLA


Platform Arts Projects

Performance
>Death Warmed Up
>Texture of Absence
>Paradise Lots
>Slip
>The Director
>Bodies of Water
>Maps of the Heart
>Pictures and Ghosts

Artist Development >Neighbourhood LAB
>infinity ensemble
>金山 婆 Gold Mountain Wife
 

Publications

> Collective Mothering
> Local Word

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Slip

Performance
 
Performer and Choreographer: Rebecca Jensen
Performer and Composer: Aviva Endean
Visual Design: Romanie Harper
LX Design: Jennifer Hector
Outside eye: Lana Šprajcer
Animation: Patrick Hamilton
Technical Operator while touring: Jordi Edwards

Platform Arts, Djilang/Geelong
Produced By Penne Thornton

Images by Sarah Walker and Lana Špra
2025Bec Jensen


In Slip, dance and sound interconnect in a unique duet between award-winning artists, dancer Rebecca Jensen and musician Aviva Endean. Central to Slip is the sound-effect technique of Foley, used in film where sounds on screen are recreated in post-production using unlikely objects and body movements in a practice of substitutions, such as waving a pair of leather gloves to make the sound of flapping bird wings.
Slip connects the illusion of Foley to the complexity of our present moment. 

 I acknowledge the life systems of land, river, sea and atmosphere and the Waddawurrung people’s as the First People’s on whose sacred Country I live. This land was never ceded. I give respect to all First Nations people’s, their elders and rising generations