Long Sentences is a dance about a sentence — and a sentence that realises it is dancing.

Navigating double meanings, foretold endings and the gap between words and feelings, Long Sentences plays with how language and sensation move us beyond ourselves.

Spinning in the accumulating choreography of a long sentence, artist and performer Rhiannon Newton invites audiences to time-travel with her and feel the chorus of voices, beings and times shaping the future of our stories.

Performance times

Wed 22 Oct, 6-7pm
Thur 23 Oct, 7-8pm
Sat 25 Oct, 4-5pm
Sun 26 Oct, 4-5pm

Content warnings

This work features periods of high-volume, multi-layered sound, and haze.

Creative team

Composer, Peter Lenaerts

Lighting Designer, Karen Norris

Outside Eye, Martin del Amo

Costume Design, Aleisa Jelbart

Understudy, Emma Riches

Long Sentences is presented by Performance Space as part of Liveworks 2025.

Commissioned by Performance Space for Liveworks 2025.

This project has been supported by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body; the NSW Government through Create NSW; Dancehouse; Performance Space; Critical Path; The Unconformity; Helsinki International Artist Programme, ArtScience Lab, Western Sydney University; Dance Nucleus; and Theatre and Performance Studies, the University of Sydney. In addition to credited collaborators, this project has been enabled by the creative contributions of Nikki Heywood, Vidha Saumya and Simo Kellokumpu.

Photography by Gregory Lorenzutti