Learn the Repertoire: See the Show is a unique program for dance students to learn repertoire from each of the Dance Bites performances in a workshop led by the presenting company. Following this, students will experience a matinee performance and post-show Q&A with the artistic team.
For more information regarding the FORM Education Program contact:
Email: admin@form.org.au or education_riverside@parracity.nsw.gov.au
Phone: +61 2 9806 5609
Choreography: Pepa Molina and Annalouise Paul
Two of the leading exponents of contemporary flamenco dance in Australia share this exciting double bill of original solo performances accompanied by live musicians.
FORGE is a striking new dance-music collaboration between award-winning artist Annalouise Paul and Amanda Handel. Evoking a blacksmith’s iron furnace, FORGE draws upon contemporary dance and the percussive power of the piano to reinterpret the soulful flamenco form Seguiriyas, and its origins in Sephardi deep song – out of the fires of invention, life forges on….
Internationally acclaimed Pepa Molina explores the displacement of her Andalusian heritage and identity within the Australian landscape in BUSH BAILANDO. Inspired by the natural environment of her home in Western Sydney, Pepa reinterprets traditional flamenco choreography through the sounds and rhythms of the Australian bush, composed in an original score by Hector Gonzalez Sanchez.
This is Flamenco like you’ve never seen it before.
Duration: 4 hours including breaks
Ticket Price: SCHOOL TICKETS
Workshop/Show $25 (teachers free). Show Only $20
NSW State Curriculum Links
Stages: 5 and 6-preliminary and HSC
Subject link: Dance and PDHPE
Choreography: Liz Roche
TIME OVER DISTANCE OVER TIME sees a cast of six performers wrestle with the physical and emotional distance they encounter while living at opposite ends of the planet. Digital technology is the lifeline but ultimately a poor substitute for the full presence of a person. A person standing beside you, understanding you not just from what you say, but from the myriad of physical information that enhances our experience of each other.
Working with an exceptional creative team, the performers explore their constantly fragmenting and suspended physicality, while preserving their relationship to each other over distance and time.
“Liz Roche has been an integral part of Ireland’s dance community for many years. She is a restless artist continually pushing herself into new places. “ Ballet Tanz International
Duration: 4 hours including breaks
Ticket Price: SCHOOL TICKETS
Workshop/Show $25 (teachers free). Show Only $20
NSW State Curriculum Links
Stages: 5 and 6-preliminary and HSC
Subject link: Dance and PDHPE
Choreography: Tess de Quincey
METADATA is an immersive performance work comprising two connected pieces PURE LIGHT and MOTHS & MATHEMATICS. Probing the latest developments in physics and cosmology, the artists explore a universe of colour, reverberation, particles and impermanence. METADATA invites you to delve into an intimate yet epic world revealing microscopic realms that catapult into a monumental universe.
Post-show ARTS-SCIENCE EXCHANGE: join in the conversation after each performance with the artists and invited scientists. A guest mathematician, physicist, cosmologist or astronomer will elucidate some of the latest developments within the science field, in the context of the performance.
Duration: 4 hours including breaks
Ticket Price: SCHOOL TICKETS
Workshop/Show $25 (teachers free). Show Only $20
NSW State Curriculum Links
Stages: 5 and 6-preliminary and HSC
Subject link: Dance and PDHPE
Choreography: Dance Makers Collective
For their latest production, Dance Makers Collective are seeking advice from their dads, on how to make dance. ‘Dad dancing’ is much derided, but ask a dancer’s father, “when is it ok to dance?” or “why bother dancing?” and the answers are not what you’d expect. Enter a world of secret solo dance practice, gender bending, philosophising and joyful experimentation. As contemporary dancers take their artform for a walk back through their family history, they investigate the cultural relevance of dance and its timeless ability to nurture collective experience.
About Dance Makers Collective
Dance Makers Collective is a group of Sydney based dancers and choreographers. With a fluid, collective structure DMC aims to support the development of new dance work by its members, from research stages right through to production, building vibrant and highly collaborative working relationships. Its members are Matt Cornell, Anya Mckee, Sophia Ndaba, Katina Olsen, Marnie Palomares, Melanie Palomares, Carl Sciberras, Miranda Wheen and Rosslyn Wythes.
Duration: 4 hours including breaks
Ticket Price: SCHOOL TICKETS
Workshop/Show $25 (teachers free). Show Only $20
NSW State Curriculum Links
Stages: 5 and 6-preliminary and HSC
Subject link: Dance and PDHPE
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