DANCE MASSIVE
DANCEHOUSE PROGRAM 2019
12 March 2019 - 24 March 2019
"It is an absolute joy to see such diversity of artists, practice, site and form in this 6th incarnation of Dance Massive — a remarkable testament to the wealth of dance making and thinking currently in Australia. At Dancehouse, we are particularly proud to present seminal senior figures not often seen on our stages such as Russell Dumas and Hellen Sky as well as provocative site-specific experimental installations such as Jill Orr and Atlanta Eke.
All the works in the Dancehouse program invite the audience to pause, listen and attune ourselves to what is really important today - care for the environment, care for others, imagination for the future."
- Angela Conquet, Dancehouse Artistic Director
POST REALITY VISION 
NANA BILUŠ ABAFFY
12-16 March
Post Reality Vision is an experimental choreographic investigation into the visionary body and the body as a vision — a rapidly unfolding danse macabre.
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UTTERANCE 
SIOBHAN MCKENNA
13-15 March
Utterance takes audiences on a rhythmic journey, navigating entangled patterns of sound and proposing intriguing new ways to understand the relationship between language, sound and the human body.
A FAINT EXISTENCE
KRISTINA CHAN
16-17 March
A Faint Existence is a powerful physical meditation on impermanence,
fragility and mortality in the age of climate change.
CONCRETE IMPERMANENCE
ALISON CURRIE
17-18 March
From environmental disaster to personal trauma, Concrete Impermanence reveals the fragility of existence through a choreography of people and paper sculptures.
THE TENNIS PIECE
ATLANTA EKE
19-21 March
For her much-anticipated new piece, Atlanta Eke choreographs a performance and multimedia installation for 4 dancers, 4 tennis ball machines, 400 tennis balls and a robotic lute.
HYPERSPACE
JAMES BATCHELOR
20-23 March
From the human body to the cosmos, HYPERSPACE is an inquiry into the metrics we use to measure the deep unknowns of the universe.
CULTURAL RESIDUES 2020
RUSSELL DUMAS
20-24 March
A new work by Australian dance luminary Russell Dumas, Cultural Residues 2020, explores embodied provenance, presentation and representation — history and fake news.
DARK NIGHT 
JILL ORR
21-23 March
Emerging from an installation initally conveived for the Venice biennale by Jill Orr, one of Australia's foremost performance artists, Dark Night is a reflection of the crumbling humanitarian ideals of a world in crisis.
QUAKE
HELLEN SKY WITH MYRIAM GOURFINK & MARK CAUVIN & KASPER T. TOEPLITZ
21-23 March
QUAKE is a synthesis of hypnotic sound and uncanny movement, developed through the international collaboration of four independently renowned artists, anchored by their ground-breaking work in the fields of sound and choreographic composition, computer technology and installation.
EXTRA MASSIVE - DANCEHOUSE PUBLIC PROGRAM
ROOM TO MOVE
Adherence | Sandra Parker
Process sharing & critical dialogue
17 March, 12 pm
FREE
Drawing on themes of power and authority, this new work in the making examines the potential for change through human persistence, endurance, will and transformation inside a highly regulated and controlled environment. READ MORE
DIRtywork | ROSALIND CRISP
Lecture-performance
24 March, 3pm
DIRtywork is a 50-minute solo lecture-performance where Rosalind Crisp asks how dance might embody, understand and connect to the unfolding extinction crisis in East Gippsland. READ MORE
THE BOTCHAN RETREAT
Screening
The Botchan Retreat | Running Man (Nathan Smith and Max Pollard)
13, 14, 20 & 21 March, 11pm
Rooftop Bar, Melbourne
FREE
Inspired by the Japanese literary classic, Botchan, and the Matsuyama locale, Botchan Retreat is a darkly, comedic dance film about the detrimental effects of corporate culture on vibrancy, freedom and happiness. READ MORE
WRITING CRITICALLY ON DANCE
WORKSHOP WITH GUEST CRITIC ROSLYN SULCAS
WED 13 MARCH to SUN 17 MARCH, 10AM - 2PM
DANCEHOUSE
limited capacity
WHAT NOW?
Conversation Series
MON 18 MARCH to FRI 22 MARCH 12:30PM - 2PM
VCA – Studio 221
FREE
A series of timely and incisive facilitated conversations aimed at contextualising the deep and subtle connections that the choreographed body fosters, in its multiplicity of forms and meanings, with the social, ethical and political. READ MORE
WE MOVE YOU
Sensorial workshops for everyone
15-24 March
We Move You gives audiences new ways of appreciating choreography by first experiencing it corporeally. After arriving at Dancehouse, participants will be guided into experiencing the dance of a Dance Massive artist with their body before watching the performance. We Move You will be led by Siobhan McKenna, James Batchelor and Russell Dumas. READ MORE
Siobhan McKenna – FRI March 15 – 5pm
James Batchelor – SAT MARCH 23 – 5pm
Russell Dumas – SUN MARCH 24 – 2pm
CHOREOGRAPHED READINGS
CHOREOGRAPHED READINGS
led by Rhiannon Newton
Saturday 16 & 23 March, 11am to 3:30pm
Carlton Library
FREE
Expanding on Dancehouse's 2018 artist in residence Rhiannon Newton's We Make Each Other Up, Dancehouse's Dance Massive artists are invited to contribute excerpts from texts that have influenced their practice and thinking. Each text is accompanied by a score and short note from the artist, shared in a one-to-one reading. READ MORE
Dance Massive 2019 is supported by Creative Victoria and the Australian Government through the Ministry of the Arts and Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body. Dance Massive exists as the simultaneous programming of contemporary dance works and associated public and industry events by three Melbourne arts organisations - Arts House, Dancehouse and Malthouse Theatre in association with long-term associate partner Ausdance Victoria and new associate partners Abbotsford Convent and The SUBSTATION. The Dancehouse Dance Massive program is funded by the City of Yarra.
