On four Tuesdays across the year, Now Pieces offers an improvisational performance evening at Dancehouse dedicated to low-fi public performances curated by and featuring local dance luminaries. With each iteration an invited curator or collective will host and program Now Pieces following the seasons, starting with our Autumn edition in April.

Now Pieces builds on the lineage of Cecil St Studio, a dance studio in Melbourne for 21 years that is now earmarked for demolition. Now Pieces continues a long standing disciplined exploration of embodied performance practice that leads to crafted, spontaneous and artful communication made on-the-go. This event invites a range of intergenerational practitioners who — in one way or another — prioritise movement to incorporate body, sound, vocalisation, memory, image and energy, responding to each passing moment in relation to the space where they are dancing in relation to the audience.

2024

#1
6:30pm, Tuesday 9 April | Curated by Tony Yap

#2
6:30pm, Tuesday 2 July | Curated by Jo Lloyd

#3
6:30pm, Tuesday 24 Sep | Curator Andrew Morrish

#4
6:30pm, Tuesday 10 December | Curator Amaara Raheem