"I really loved the freedom of expression, and just realising that... I don't need to use my mouth if I wanna tell a story."
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Adam Wheeler
“some of the best advice that I ever got, as a young student, was make the dance that you want to watch”
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Vicki Van Hout
“I love my track pants and I wouldn't be seeing dead in the pair of tights.”
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Image by Pippa Samaya
Paul White
“I am totally hooked by collaboration, particularly with friends”
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Image includes Harrison Elliott - Image by Brett Boardman
Danielle Micich
“I want us to all be held responsible for watching what is happening on stage, as opposed to 'I can't see the person next to me. And so therefore, it doesn't matter'. Actually, I want us to all take part in what I'm putting on stage and be responsible and have thoughts about that. If we do that, then we're having a bigger conversation about what has actually on our stage today.”
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Dancers Shian Law, Rebecca Jensen, Jo Lloyd and Deanne Butterwork - Image by Peter Rosetzky
Jo Lloyd
“I have this curiosity for what my body remembers, also pre this life that I've known. And that's not to be esoteric, that's actually anchored in some of the incredibly fascinating research to do with trauma in the body and generational trauma.”
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Amrita Hepi
“There is something about sharing something with somebody, or about teaching somebody something that allows space for a conversation that you might not normally have.”
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Image by Julia Gat
Thomas Bradley
“my ambitions are taking me into other mediums where there is such a liberation, because I don't know the rules, because I don't understand the parameters because I don't understand techniques, because I don't understand tools, or how to do this, or what I should be doing. You know, and there's, there's such a liberation in that. And I think the most valuable thing that I have at the moment is this costume design situation.”
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Joel Bray
“Dance has the ability to take the moment and to expand that out, so you can almost, you can take one or a few things, and really pull them apart and really understand them. […] Dance allows the possibility for authentic human to human encounters; that I think are becoming more and more precious in this digital world.”
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photo credit Pia Johnson.
Lauren Langlois
“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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Photo credit: Joseph Lau
Bridget Fiske
“you actually can you have agency in designing your own career”
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Poster image New York late 1970’s, image supplied Jane Desmond.
Jane Desmond
“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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Harper Watters
“I try to make the ballet world a lot more colourful, diverse and a lot more inclusive.”
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Mette Ingvartsen, photo by Danny Willems
Mette Ingvartsen
“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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Bruno Isaković
"I am observing them, observing me."
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Luke George
“Dance is an embodied space, it is a visual space, it’s a sensual space and I just have such a strong desire for the audience to be in their bodies as well as the performers and for them not to be sitting in a black box as if they are watching television, in their heads thinking about things, analysing.”
Chase Johnsey
“I am a huge feminist, so there was something about the strength of the females going on pointe, that really interested me, I like that there was strength beyond the beauty.”
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'Brasilia' collaboration with Matthew Bird (2015) Photo credit Vitor Schietti
Phillip Adams
“New York was my mentor”
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Image by Tristan Jalleh
Justin Shoulder
“In many respects I started doing performance as a reaction to having a very digital practice, working with images and I wanted to physically feel more alive in this reality.”
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Ilse Ghekiere
“What is very specific about dance is that our profession is directly linked to our body and that invites a blurring of the private and the professional, that can often be sort of liberating, but it deviates away from a certain norm of how we think about our bodies. But I think it can also be very confusing and problematic, especially because, we have been trained in education to push our boundaries - so to talk about boundaries is a very interesting conversation”.
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