The Cave, MIJF

Made possible through City of Melbourne's late night programming initiative, Supple Fox collaborated with Sophie Brous and Duckpond to present an event over four nights for the 2010 and 2011 Melbourne International Jazz Festivals.

A timeless tableaux of warbling songbirds, filmic rites, decadent dances and faded virtuosos. In the tradition of 20th century speakeasies and the art action parties of Europe, Melbourne International Jazz Festival presented 'The Cave'; a late night rendezvous where music, spontaneous performance and conversation overlap in a social fin de partie.

Set in the opulent surrounds of Melbourne's best kept secret, the Kelvin Club on the opening and closing weekends of the Festival, four separate evenings were imagined with a cast of the city's greatest and most forgotten artistes. As if in a dream, the impressions of the golden ages of music, film, dance and song came together as situational vignettes emerged out of the late night reverie.