— Left out to dry

PEDAL traces artistic swimming’s lineage, inheriting its aesthetic, physical, and performative textures. As a quartet assuming tetrapod status, the dancers negotiate an ever-contracting choreographic space. In this shrinkage, gesture transforms. Beckoning becomes something other than itself.

A timepiece in another time. A form once submerged, now extracted. Like the whale, the dance inherits a terrestrial ancestor—a structure it has abandoned. Bodies, drenched and heavy, are lifted, hurled, and finally expelled; the puddle shrinks steadily beneath them. Divergence is both method and engine.

Dance as transmogrification.

Choreographers/Performers Flynn Dakis, Jesper Harrison, Sarah Ceraso, & Toni Stathopoulos
Sound Design Angie Collins and Jesper Harrison
Costume Design Andrew Treloar

PEDAL has been supported by the University of Melbourne Student Union and the MPavillion Participatory Arts Award.

Contact the host of PEDAL — Flynn Dakis, Jesper Harrison, Sarah Ceraso & Toni Stathopoulos