Скачать или смотреть TRAILER | 'And Now We Move On' | 12-16 January 2022, Arts Centre Melbourne

'And Now We Move On' marks the premiere of five new dance works from Australian dance collective, Project Animo.

12-16 January 2022
Playhouse, Arts Centre Melbourne
Tickets: https://www.artscentremelbourne.com.a...

Led by acclaimed choreographer and Project Animo’s creative director Alice Topp (Resident Choreographer – The Australian Ballet), the season features new work by some of the country’s most iconic dancers and choreographers including Cass Mortimer-Eipper (Sydney Dance Company), Izzac Carroll (Studio Wayne McGregor), Deborah Brown (Bangarra Dance Theatre) and independent artist Kristina Chan.

Project Animo is an initiative of choreographer Alice Topp and designer Jon Buswell, founded to bring together a collective of independent artistic voices and talent from across Australia’s dance landscape. Formed in 2021, this community of dancers, choreographers, musicians and artists comes together to develop new work, challenge and expand their artistic boundaries, and share in a common goal: to breathe new life into Australian dance, for audiences around the country.

Patina by Alice Topp
Music by Bryony Marks | Costume Design by Kat Chan | Stage and Lighting Design by Jon
Buswell
Danced by David Mack, Madeleine Eastoe, Izzac Carroll, Andrew Killian, Chimene Steele-
Prior, Laura Hidalgo, Rudy Hawkes, Josie Weise, Jill Ogai

Patina is an exploration of how we wear the sheen of life, or how it wears us. It looks at the
journey of ageing and of growing comfortably into one’s own skin - a journey which can take
a lifetime. Patina dismantles shame in ageing, challenging societies‘ prescription of “beauty”
and of what being in your “prime” looks like. In an age where filters, photoshop and media
iron out honesty and any lived-in line, Patina is about embracing the hard-fought graces -
courage, resilience, tenacity, compassion, empathy, wisdom - qualities garnered over time
that make a person infinitely more beautiful. It takes the words ‘character’ and ‘character-
building’ - often used as a balm for adversity - and shows us that character is one of the
qualities that beauty is built on.

The Wave by Deborah Brown
Music by George Bokaris | Costume Design by Kat Chan | Lighting Design by Jon Buswell
Danced by Madeleine Eastoe

The Wave is a response to the different shards of identity that we accumulate through our
experiences or that are beset upon us through society and how it swells into anxiety. Being
rocked about by labels, boxes, categories, comparisons and expectations while muting
ourselves to make others feel comfortable. When a strong emotion begins to swell, flight or
fight kicks in.

Egotist by Izzac Carroll
Music by Louis Freere-Harvey | Costume Design by Aleisa Jelbart | Lighting Design by Jon
Buswell
Danced by Chimene Steele-Prior, Andrew Killian, Josie Weise, Rudy Hawkes, Jill Ogai

Why am I an Egotist?
Maybe I have to be when I wear a skirt in public.
Egotist explores the surprisingly difficult process of trying to figure out what to wear in the
morning. This work attempts to understand the reasoning behind our fashion decisions,
tackling topics such as gender identity in the fashion world, body dysmorphia and the
undeniable power behind a stiletto.

Kinetic Gestalt by Cass Mortimer Eipper
Music by Marco Cher-Gibard | Costume Design by Aleisa Jelbart | Lighting Design by Jon
Buswell
Danced by Rudy Hawkes, David Mack, Chimene Steele-Prior, Andrew Killian, Izzac Carroll,
Josie Weise, Madeleine Eastoe

A kinetic gestalt — patterns of motion that transcend and transmute those generated by the
algorithm while continuing to embody them. Floating free of the forces that shaped the
choreography, the dancers generate their own world of movement.

In Real Life by Kristina Chan
Music by James Brown | Costume Design by Aleisa Jelbart | Lighting Design by Jon Buswell
Danced by Chimene Steele-Prior

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