PERSONAL BY JODEE MUNDY

To bare one’s soul on stage, as the performer does, time and time again, is an already brave undertaking, but what if the performance allowed for a dive deeper, and what if it was littered with personal mementos, childhood keepsakes and the live action interspersed by old family film, what of it then? This is…

PERFORMANCE

23/04/2018

RIGHT NOW

“Right Now” is a work written by Catherine-Anne Toupin and translated by Chris Campbell. It’s a slippery yet tightly wound work that paints in subversive strokes; a minimal tale between neighbours, it plays out in a crisp, modern, charcoal-colored interior that is as non-descript as it is familiar. There has been past trauma that has…

PERFORMANCE

17/04/2018

REPLICA

Two figures emerge from the darkness and enter a heart-pounding, visceral world of split-second timing and melting fluidity. They are intricately tangled. This, is Replica a dynamic new dance work by Stephanie Lake Company which brings together a creative team of both leading Australian and international artists. With whip-smart unison alongside wild, animalistic choreography,…

PERFORMANCE

05/04/2018

FIERCE

Australia we have a problem, and we need to talk. Society is caught in a somewhat perpetual cycle of male dominance, and toxic masculinity is everywhere. Wage discrepancy, violence against woman and rape culture are all to often commonplace, or, more worryingly, all too often swept under the rug. Where in this testosterone driven place…

PERFORMANCE

27/03/2018

COLDER

Colder- a work that at its heart deals with the loss and the decay of our closest relationships; in the midst of a loved one going missing what is left of the emotional landscape in their wake? Heavy material that plays on memory and provides a dark playground for the cast to idle away amongst-…

PERFORMANCE

20/03/2018

ALONE

Every few years Melbourne witnesses coming up through the ranks, a hand full of incredible and virile dance makers, who continue to reinvent not just their own practice, but the way in which we as audience interact and respond to dance. And though it is true that everything in art has been done before, there…

PERFORMANCE

20/03/2018

LOVE LIVE MUSIC

Music Victoria provides advocacy on behalf of the music sector, actively supports the development of the Victorian music community, and celebrates and promotes Victorian music. An important and independent player in our local music scene, Music Victoria have achieved some pretty great things over the last 12 months including having run 26 professional development workshops…

MUSIC

15/03/2018

UNKNOWN NEIGHBOURS

Like a bizarre but, effective example of social anthropology or some deconstructed dessert ordered in a fancy restaurant, this is Unknown Neighbours, a joyously experimental work that pulls the audience out of the theatre and places them in the homes of strangers, where the real and the imagined narratives of those which inhabit these places…

PERFORMANCE