— The ultimate rebound

What does it take to pick yourself up? Dust yourself off? To bounce back, again, and again, and again?

With plenty of balls, set somewhere between a playground and a pressure cooker, The Ballad of Bouncing Back embraces the absurdity of keeping it together when everything is falling apart.

Endurance takes centre stage, not as spectacle, but as a slow-burn act of resistance: relentless, playful, optimistic and quietly defiant. Through rhythm, repetition and ritual, a physical vocabulary unfolds, channeling both the absurdity and the necessity of resilience.

Choreographer: Alec Katsourakis

Collaborators: Reuben Macdougall Di Manno, Jacqui Maida, Lucinda Worthing-Shore, Amelie Logan, Opal Russel, Luke Romero, Nadiayh Akbar, Jasmine Susic, Jareen Wee, Helena May, Rory Warne, Molly Haringsma, Carlie Shaw, Chase Clegg-Robinson, Hayley Roe.

The Ballad of Bouncing Back has been supported by The Coburg Courthouse Residency via Merri-Bek City Council