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"Beast Martha" image by Zoe Manders

"Beast Martha" image by Zoe Manders

Dan Daw

January 16, 2020

"[Dance] It gave me an outlet and a way to express myself, and to be in a space where I could see myself represented."

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In Season Eleven Tags dance, Dancer, Disability, Queer
photo credit Pia Johnson.

photo credit Pia Johnson.

Lauren Langlois

November 7, 2018

“I am such an instinctual person as well, I really trust in the process, and allowing things to evolve and come up. So the work, in away makes its self along the way.”

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In Season Eight Tags dance, Dancer, choreographer, Chunky Move
Photo credit: Joseph Lau

Photo credit: Joseph Lau

Bridget Fiske

October 12, 2018

“you actually can you have agency in designing your own career”

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In Season Eight Tags dance, Dancer, choreographer, dance teacher
Poster image New York late 1970’s, image supplied Jane Desmond.

Poster image New York late 1970’s, image supplied Jane Desmond.

Jane Desmond

October 6, 2018

“As dancers and dance scholars we have the ability to articulate how embodied senses of self in the world and how specific embodied practices come to have social meaning, and how those presumed meanings circulate in public discourse, influencing public policy and political claims, with long term and complex results.”

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In Dance writer, dance, Season Seven Tags dance, Dance writer, academic, Sexuality, Jane Desmond, Gender, Queer
Mette Ingvartsen, photo by Danny Willems

Mette Ingvartsen, photo by Danny Willems

Mette Ingvartsen

September 6, 2018

“The fact that the sexual undertone, or the desiring undertone that a lot of dance is operating through, for me it was very important to make it explicit. To actually say ‘okay part of what is happening here is a question of desire, it is a question of being stimulated physically. Then there are many different levels or layers of this happening of course. In my work it was about saying, we have to recognise that these underlying structures are there, and if we recognise it and even expose it explicitly then maybe we can actually look at for something else or question ourselves….”

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In Artistic Director, Choreographer, Season Seven Tags dance, Dancer, choreographer, MetteIngvartsen, Gend, Sexuality, Nudity
DENUDED - photo by Darko Vaupotić
DENUDED - photo by Darko Vaupotić
DENUDED - group version
DENUDED - group version
SHAKE IT OFF - photo by Dalibor Urukalović
SHAKE IT OFF - photo by Dalibor Urukalović
Oh beautiful, oh dear, oh sweat freedom - photo by PIXEL
Oh beautiful, oh dear, oh sweat freedom - photo by PIXEL
Suddenly Everywhere
Suddenly Everywhere
DENUDED - photo by Darko Vaupotić DENUDED - group version SHAKE IT OFF - photo by Dalibor Urukalović Oh beautiful, oh dear, oh sweat freedom - photo by PIXEL Suddenly Everywhere

Bruno Isaković

August 17, 2018

"I am observing them, observing me." 

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In Season Seven Tags Queer, choreographer, dance, Dancer
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Joshua Pether

September 8, 2017

"It is easier to change an aesthetic rather than a physical form, so by having different bodies on stage you then start to change the aesthetic, which then starts to change peoples perspectives."

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In Dancer, Season Three, Choreographer Tags YIRRAMBOI, Disability, dance, Dancer
Alexandre Hamel

Alexandre Hamel

December 20, 2016

“Branding it as contemporary dance is bad for marketing. Contemporary dance is often seen as elitist, boring […] for snobs by a very large section of the public.”

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In Dancer, Choreographer, Artistic Director, Season One-pilot season Tags ice skating, dance, rebel, Melbourne Festival, artistic director
Gideon Obarzanek

Gideon Obarzanek

December 6, 2016

“I didn’t have a great interest in having a dance company or directing a dance company, it came out of necessity. […] My interest has always been about making work.”

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In Choreographer, Season One-pilot season Tags dance, Chunky Move, choreographer, artistic director, Australian Ballet

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