Maybe ( hold hands ) Together
Maybe (throw paper planes) Together
Maybe (jump) Together
Maybe (scream) Together
Maybe (simply listen) Together
Maybe (WE COULD CHANGE THE WORLD) Together
Maybe ( ) Together presents works spanning live art, performance, online, street art and public interventions. Led by Alex Desebrock, the works focus around connecting strangers, big questions, public space and the child’s voice.
The company uses art and theatre to create participatory works such as Small Voices Louder (Perth Festival & WA regional tours), Every Day Super Hero (Fremantle Arts Centre & REAF) Dear Hope Street (Sydney Festival, DreamBig, Awesome Festival), The Future Postal Service (Arts Centre Melbourne, WOMAD, Perth Festival, Commonwealth Games, Federation Square) and aMoment Caravan (Sydney Festival, Blue Room, White Night Melbourne and dozens of regional towns in Australia).
Maybe ( ) Together’s touring works are produced by Performing Lines WA and represented in the US by Boat Rocker Entertainment.
About
Alex Desebrock
Alex is passionate about creating high quality, insightful arts experiences for children and adults. Her work is described as "gently radical" using games and interventions to connect the ideas and opinions of children with stranger adults. Sharing the creative, brutally honest, playful, amusing, and guilt-inducing moments from future generations has become a long-term investigation, as she believes this is ultimately what the world needs to hear
Alex Desebrock is an independent artist and “sometimes producer” based on Whadjuk Noongar land (Perth), Australia. She is Lead Artist behind Maybe ( ) Together.
Alex completed Animateuring (VCA) in 2011 and was awarded the Barbara Manning Scholarship. In 2012 she completed a mentorship with Sara Topsoe-Jensen of Carte Blanche (Denmark). She was the Australian representative for ASSITEJ’s Directors’ Seminar in Germany in 2015 & was an artist in residence at Arts Chiyoda 3331, Japan in 2016 and The ArtGround in 2019.
Alex is a founder of FLOCK, an artist lead initiative that provides PD for and by Perth artists. She also initated the crucial covid-information sharing group Australian Arts Amidst Covid 19. In 2019 Alex was awarded the Theatre Network Australia “Smashing It” award for an independent artist for her work in advocacy for independent artists. Alex assistant produced Kolyang Creative Hub and currently works at Perth Festival as their Associate Producer - Industry Programs.