About

one step at a time like this is a group of artists who create participatory, locative and site responsive works. Based in Melbourne, Australia, on Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung lands.

Employing an expanded notion of theatre, one step at a time like this create works that are place-responsive and subtly participatory. Our works blend the everyday world with live and digital elements, allowing the real world to enhance the virtual or fictional and vice versa. There are three main threads to our work: audience, place, and interconnectedness.

Audience: We have an abiding interest in the place and role of the audience, and we are often inventing ways to allow the activity of the audience – their actions, their feelings, their imagination – to emerge as an essential element in the work.

We often incorporate technology, but use the digital always to support the live experience of the audience. We’re much more interested in contemplation and reflection rather than spectacle, or the technology, in itself.

Place: Our work supports deep intimacies with place, forging a more personal relationship to public space – and also an intimacy with others and one’s self through place.

Interconnectedness: As audiences move through public and private places within our works, they are wound in – through walking, the physical journey – through time – through lingering in unknowing – through words and music and the details of the world itself – imperceptibly becoming creative agents in the journey, until they find themselves and that same ‘everyday’ world suddenly enriched, heightened, more.

Works include:
Transmission – into the dark – Adelaide Fringe Festival 2025; The Substation & Melbourne Fringe Pulse Program 2024
upsidedowninsideout – Her Majesty’s Theatre, Ballarat, 2025
en route (remount) – The Traverse Fest, Edinburgh, 2023
Nocturne – Vivid Festival commission, Sydney, 2023
64 Ways of Being – collaboration with Dr Troy Innocent, Victorian Government Creative State Commission, 2021-24
People (remount) – Clonmel Junction Festival, Ireland, 2021
Interior – Zoo TV, Edinburgh Fringe, 2021; Melbourne Fringe Festival, 2020
en route – Singapore International Festival of Arts, 2021
Sea Inside – collaboration with Triage Live Art Collective, Dansearena Nord Norway, 2019
Whispers – Outback Theatre for Young People, Deniliquin, 2019
upsidedowninsideout – Sadler’s Wells Theatre, 2018; Culture Station Seoul 2016; Arts Centre Melbourne, 2015
Carnival of Futures – Arts House, Melbourne, 2018
Immergence – Situations UK, Torquay, 2017
forever young – Traverse Theatre Edinburgh Fringe, 2015; Clonmel Junction Arts Festival 2015
Since I Suppose – OZ Arts, Nashville, 2016; Arts House & Melbourne Festival, 2014; Chicago Shakespeare Theatre 2014
en route – Melbourne Fringe; Adelaide Fringe; Brisbane Fiesta Festival; Darwin Festival; The Traverse Theatre Edinburgh Fringe; Chicago Shakespeare Theater; London Olympics; Seoul Performing Arts Festival; Auckland Arts Festival; Junction Arts Festival Launceston

Artists

one step at a time like this is Suzanne Kersten, Clair Korobacz and Julian Rickert.

Paul Moir is the sleeping brother.

Associate Artist: Sharon Thompson

Producers

Richard Jordan Productions and Intimate Spectacle.