Deep Soulful Sweats at The Benalla Art Gallery

Let your hair down and tap into your sun sign! Join Deep Soulful Sweats for an unforgettable night of immersive dancing, chanting, sweating, and stomping!

Deep Soulful Sweats (DSS) is a collaborative and participatory event led by Naarm-based dance artists Sarah Aiken and Rebecca Jensen. Facilitated by Naarm-based and international dancers and DJs, the project creates ecstatic, inclusive, and unrehearsed participatory performance experiences with no spectators.

A tongue-in-cheek nod to the Zodiac, participants are divided into elements, (Earth, Air, Fire, Water) and led 'follow the leader’ style through spontaneous choreography, chanting, absurdity, and fantasy - an embodied and energetic exchange in dance and choreographic practice. In the thick of an unfolding choreography/ ritual/ rave/ contemporary dance class/ spectacle, DSS incrementally and exponentially encourages participants to let go and exorcise through exercise.

Deep Soulful Sweats has grown a loyal following for its shape-shifting events, encouraging people from all walks of life to step out of their thinking mind and into their bodies.

Wear your runners!

When: Saturday 2 November 2024, 7—8.30PM
Ages: 15+

Where: Benalla Art Gallery, Bennett Gallery

Cost: FREE

Registration essential: T 03 5760 2619 or gallery@benalla.vic.gov.au

To secure your place, BOOK ONLINE, visit the Gallery, call on 5760 2619, or email gallery@benalla.vic.gov.au

About Deep Soulful Sweats

Deep Soulful Sweats are local dance artists, Sarah Aiken and Rebecca Jensen, renowned for creating immersive, participatory, performance events. Their freeform maximalist style has no rules, amassing multiple images in a torrent of references, satirical, sincere, absurd and unapologetic.

https://www.deepsoulfulsweats.com/

Above Image: Deep Soulful Sweats by Phill Kitt