(Un)Tethered

Presented by VCA Dance and Design and Production Students

Tethered to a reality that is in a state of accelerating precarity, we perceive the fragile beauty that surrounds us with a heightened awareness of Dance as an act of assembly and renewal. For our 2024 Graduation Season, four new contemporary dance works by Melbourne-based choreographers affirm VCA’s commitment to constantly evolving creativity, to the power of intergenerational learning, and the transformative potential of the choreographic.

VCA Dance and Design and Production students have collaborated to present new choreographies and designs expressive of the diverse drivers that our contemporary present makes known. David Prakash invites the dancers to unpack the importance of community building and interpersonal relationships, whilst tending to the collective responsibility that we hold to one another. In Chimene Steele-Prior’s work, dream-like states are evoked through pulsing fluid streams of movement that tumble and float. VCA alum Sarah Aiken makes a welcome return, bringing her low-tech post-humanism in a work that offers multiple angles on the mythic and the real. And finally, Luke George (also a VCA alum) creates a dialogue between bodies and ropes, building tensegrity structures of intimate entanglement.

We invite you to join us in celebrating the achievements of our graduating year students and to recognise in these dances and designs the power of the arts to sustain relationships with that which tethers our lives to meaningful and breathable futures.

- Carol Brown, Head of Dance

CHOREOGRAPHERS

David Prakash
Chimene Steele-Prior
Sarah Aiken
Luke George

Runtime
This show will run for approximately run for 1 hour and 45 including an interval.

Parking

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Image Credit: Gregory Lorenzutti, from Nicole Corea's Fractal in before, between, beyond 2023.

ACCESSIBILITY

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