MELBOURNE FRINGE FESTIVAL
DANCEHOUSE PROGRAM 2018
13 September 2018 - 30 September 2018
13-16 September
AIMEE SCHOLLUM - SONOS
A contemporary dance work, Sonos explores a visceral understanding of the body through the manipulation of mediated sound. We live in an age where we are bombarded with mediated sound daily. The relentless penetration of mediated sound into our lives has dulled our minds and, in turn, our innate awareness of our bodies. If sound can affect our mood, can it change our physiology? What happens if the body can influence the sound we hear?
JOEL FENTON - NONSENSICAL
Not everything appears as it seems, look closer and you'll see...
This comedic contemporary dance work follows a peculiar character along a curious journey of discovery. Exploring themes of isolation, understanding and subverting expectations, the audience are brought on a rollercoaster ride of emotions and surprising encounters.
19-23 September
PAUL JACKSON - 48 POINTS (make a boy dance)
A dance made according to a set of randomly-generated co-ordinates. Gradually building in complexity, the dance is built in front of you, ultimately unfurling into something greater than the sum of its parts. Mundane choreographic structures reveal the human inside the dance. The body is object and subject simultaneously. 48 POINTS (make a boy dance) aims to address the social implications of the male soloist, particularly the tendency to consume and take up space.
20-23 September
PEAS AND RICE - COLOUR CORRECTION
The relationship we have with colour is as much social and political as it is sensorial and emotional. In Colour Correction, movement and text are used as the primary tools to navigate the colour spectrum and question the deeply imbued (and often problematic) associations we make with colour. Issues of race, gender and spirituality bubble beneath the surface of the work, as the performers uncover both humorous and sometimes uncomfortable questions about our own, often self-righteous, colour-blindness. Join them in this explorative performance about colour – as experienced by, on and through the body.
25-30 September
SCOTT WINGS – WHIPLASH
Whiplash is the newest experience from award-winning physical theatre artist, poet, and dreamer Scott Wings. A meditation on toxic masculinity, love, the human form and mental health, in a subversive world of storytelling. In a playful odyssey through mouth, stomach, lungs and beyond, Scott balances his brain and chases his heart, while trying to keep up with the person sitting across from him on a date.
27-30 September
AUSTINMER DANCE THEATRE – CONNECT
CONNECT brings together the creative works of three life long friends bound together through their chosen art form and unrivalled friendship. Featuring the work of Company Patron (Maurice Causey, Ashley Wright and Artistic Director Michelle Forte), audiences will be exposed to three unique pieces, all pushing the boundaries of contemporary dance
27-30 September
RACHEL HUF & TAHLIA KLUGMAN - UNCONSCIOUS VOLCANOES
Hidden within the depths of our unconscious, our repressed desires are as potent and active as though they assailed every second of our conscious thinking. Inspired by Isador H Coriat's The Meaning of Dreams (1915), Unconscious Volcanoes asks: How many of your thoughts are foreign to your personality? How many of these thoughts do you successfully repress? Do they leak out as symptomatic actions, psychoneurotic symptoms or dreams?
EVENING PASSES ($15 TICKETS)
DANCEHOUSE YOUR WAY! PROGRAM
Our Your Way! program is a way of offering support to productions outside our curatorial program. In offering the Your Way! program, we aim to contribute to advancing dance practice and performance by giving artists access to professional presenting opportunities in a low cost, nurturing environment.
Presented as a part of Melbourne Fringe Festival 2018
