Pixel Shift

Join the second-year VCA Dance students for the premiere of their 2025 Digital Dance works.

These original performances dive into the complexities and contradictions of our digital age, exploring themes of doxxing, cancel culture, artificial intelligence and the shifting boundaries of online anonymity. Each work is an experiment in how dance can respond to and reveal the hidden architectures of our digital lives.

Through a fusion of choreography and technology, the students create interactive performance environments where movement and digital media meet in real time. Screens, projections, sensors, and soundscapes are not simply backdrops but active participants, shaping and being shaped by the dancers’ presence. These pieces are not just about dance, they are about how we live now. They ask: What happens when technology begins to move with us, reflect us, and sometimes expose us? How do we navigate the vulnerabilities of digital culture while still finding new ways to connect, resist, and create?

The 2025 Digital Dance performance offers audiences a chance to witness the next generation of choreographic voices as they test the possibilities of dance in dialogue with rapidly evolving technologies. Expect works that are thought-provoking, visually striking, and unapologetically of our time.

Creative Credits
Created by the Second-Year Digital Dance students, with support from Dr. Megan Beckwith.
Production Coordinator: Tia Wojcik
Lighting Realiser: Adam Grikepelis
Stage Manager: Kaite Head

Run time
This performance will run for approximately 1 hour.

Venue
This performance takes place in Studio 221, which is located in the St Kilda Road Performing Arts Building. Please meet front of house near the ramp on St Kilda Road to be admitted to the performance space.

PARKING

The City of Melbourne has changed the parking restrictions around the Southbank Campus. Parking control hours are now expanded to 7am–10pm, seven days per week, and are capped at three hours. A $2-per-hour fee after 7pm is also now in place. There is no change to the $4-per-hour peak rate between 7am–7pm. Parking inspectors are regularly in the area fining drivers who overstay their meter, so we encourage everyone to be aware and avoid an expensive fine.

ACCESSIBILITY

All venues at the Southbank campus are wheelchair accessible. To read more about access services available at our venues, please visit:  https://finearts-music.unimelb.edu.au/access-our-events.  

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

• Please stay home if you feel unwell, even with mild symptoms. Face masks are welcome in all settings for community and personal safety.  

• In order to account for drop-off in attendance, we overbook a select number of free events at the Faculty. If you have not arrived by the start of the performance, your ticket may be released to any waiting patrons at the door. Please arrive at the venue at least 15 minutes before the performance to secure your seat.  

• Admission to any of our concerts and events is strictly at the discretion of Front of House. We have zero tolerance for any disrespectful behaviour. 

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