Inspired by a seminal work of science fiction, Salamander is a key work in this year’s Brisbane Festival. Elissa Blake talks to two of its major creatives – choreographer Maxine Doyle and composer Rachael Dease – about the huge project that will transform an empty Northshore warehouse into an eerie, water-logged, mind-expanding vision of the Earth’s future.

A big light up grid/maze, made out of clear plastic lit up.
A production shot from Here Not Here, designed by Es Devlin for GöteborgsOperans Danskompani, which is being repurposed for Salamander at Brisbane Festival. Photo © Tilo Stengel

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