Short Works:
IN COMMON
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In Common is a short piece composed mainly of emerging performers.
This site-specific work uses Strings Attached vertical dance and physical theatre vocabulary to evoke poetical notions of modern-age social interdependence. With the heritage-listed external architecture of the chapel as the stage, the directors incorporate techniques from Contact Improvisation and aerial dance to reference the complex networks of social interaction that are the norm of the new generations, as well as the fast mechanical pacing of our modern city lives. |
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TIME AND LANDSCAPE
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Time and Landscape are fragments from a choreographic research about the imaginary places that the dancers inhabit while moving anchored together by touch. The dancer’s subtle, yet highly complex manoeuvres are extremely dependent on each other’s ability to adapt to minuscule shift of balance, positioning and timing, requiring a great deal of attention and trust on each other. Using music and scoring processes to influence and distort this underlying collaboration between the dancers, subtle movements are born and transformed, eliciting threads of relationship and context within the abstract movement language of the dancers.
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OPPOSITE TANGENTS
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Opposite Tangents is based on the imagined dream that Sir Isaac Newton dreamt the night that he was hit by the apple. It is also a research about the dynamics of circular movement. In this trio collaboration, the artists investigate ideas from Physics’ Laws of Motion, to develop movement patterns that enabled them to gather, dissipate and transfer kinetic energy from one to another. Using orbital slingshots and circular momentum the performers recycle and amplify each other’s movements and trajectories to create complex gravity defying dance sequences.
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AIRBOURNE
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Four characters in spotless pressurised suits find themselves in a bizarre new place, and begin to explore their fascinating new environment. Scouring their surroundings, they create in their wake a giant inflatable being.
Two storeys tall, it dances with the harbour breeze, between the buildings and across the cobblestones, influenced equally by their movements and the surrounding elements of our world. 
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STUFFOCATION
Suffocation is the investigation in hoarding using vertical dance techniques as the physical language in a imaginative world. |
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LEVITY
Levity is a blend of Contact Improvisation and aerial dance creating a duet exploring flight using elastic ropes. |
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SECOND STOREY
Second Storey explore aerial dance on the vertical plane, incorporating a structural set, counterweight flying systems and elastic-ropes.
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