Dancehouse

LINK Dance Company 2018 present a selection of works by Australian choreographers Richard Cilli, Emma Fishwick and Michael Whaites. Attached to the Western Australian Academy of Performing Art (WAAPA) LINK Dance Company is a pre-professional dance company which exists to give dancers the opportunity to make the transition from student to professional.

Set/Free - Performance of hybrid of set choreography and freestyle (Sat 15 Dec 6PM) Workshops - A series of workshops facilitated by Melbourne's leaders in the subcultural dance communities (Sun 16 Dec 1-5PM) Beat x Dance x Battle - An exhibition battle celebrating Melbourne's dancers and beatmakers. (Sun 16 Dec 6PM)

A series of short dance performance pieces by Melbourne's subcultures. Dancers and musicians will spend a week at Dancehouse, experimenting with new ideas to develop and share new work publicly. Presenting a hybrid of set choreography and freestyle at the end of the week.

Facilitated by Melbourne's leaders in the subcultural dance communities they represent. This edition will include Hip-hop, Popping, Krump and Waacking. These 1hr workshops will be open to anyone interested in learning about different subcultures within street dance. Here participants will gain knowledge and insight into each of the styles' cultures and foundational movement. Book 1, a few or book all (select ALL WORKSHOPS only)!

An exhibition battle celebrating Melbourne's dancers and beatmakers. The artforms team up and go up against other teams, round by round, until a winner emerges. This event hopes to showcase Melbourne's emerging music and dance communities that co-relate to the subcultures they make up.

Two weeks and 10 x dance classes exploring queer dance manifestations and possibilities from a range of teachers in a range of styles.

Two weeks and 10 x dance classes exploring queer dance manifestations and possibilities from a range of teachers in a range of styles. Choose 5 of your favourite classes on offer! For a full list of teachers and information on classes, check the website prior to booking.

Queer Histories – Considering the globalisation and commodification of queer culture, what are the local specificities? What forms of queerness resist these forces and which choose to embrace them? With a focus on the queer histories of Melbourne and Sydney, this conversation unpacks the entanglement of various art forms and queerness since the ‘60s. At the Coopers Malthouse

Dancehouse and Midsumma present a Kaleidoscopic take on 50 years of Queer Dance History

Queer Futures - As queer culture becomes more and more a global phenomena, are we at risk of losing the particular/singular queer expressions of any one place/culture? What might be lost through such a shift and what are the consequences of appropriating queer expressions and art forms conceived in foreign places?

Queer Potentials - How can queer culture question and shift oppressive binary norms and power structures? How does queerness embrace intersectionality and what tensions arise?

Room to Move Coming This Fall is a new project considering the neoliberal tendency to adhere to economies of time and productivity, and uses choreographic process to work through the implications and propose alternatives.

Whiplash is the newest experience from award-winning physical theatre artist, poet, and dreamer Scott Wings. A meditation on toxic masculinity, love, the human form and mental health, in a subversive world of storytelling. In a playful odyssey through mouth, stomach, lungs and beyond, Scott balances his brain and chases his heart, while trying to keep up with the person sitting across from him on a date.

See two performances at Dancehouse as part of our discounted Evening Pass Package: UNCONSCIOUS VOLCANOES - 8:15PM (Sunday 7:15PM) Hidden within the depths of our unconscious, our repressed desires are as potent and active. WHIPLASH - 9:15PM (Sunday 8:15PM) A meditation on toxic masculinity, love, the human form and mental health.

Hidden within the depths of our unconscious, our repressed desires are as potent and active as though they assailed every second of our conscious thinking. How many of your thoughts are foreign to your personality? How many of these thoughts do you successfully repress? Do they leak out as symptomatic actions, psychoneurotic symptoms or dreams?

See three performances at Dancehouse as part of our discounted Evening Pass Package: CONNECT - 7:00PM (Sunday 6:00PM) Three unique pieces, pushing the boundaries of contemporary dance UNCONSCIOUS VOLCANOES - 8:15PM (Sunday 7:15PM) Hidden within the depths of our unconscious, our repressed desires are as potent and active. WHIPLASH - 9:15PM (Sunday 8:15PM) A meditation on toxic masculinity, love, the human form and mental health.

See two performances at Dancehouse as part of our discounted Evening Pass Package: CONNECT - 7:00PM (Sunday 6:00PM) Three unique pieces, pushing the boundaries of contemporary dance UNCONSCIOUS VOLCANOES - 8:15PM (Sunday 7:15PM) Hidden within the depths of our unconscious, our repressed desires are as potent and active.

CONNECT brings together the creative works of three life long friends bound together through their chosen art form and unrivalled friendship. Featuring the work of Company Patron (Maurice Causey, Ashley Wright and Artistic Director Michelle Forte) audiences will be exposed to three unique pieces, all pushing the boundaries of contemporary dance.

48 POINTS (make a boy dance) aims to address the social implications of the male soloist, particularly the tendency to consume and take up space. 48 POINTS is a dance made according to a set of randomly-generated co-ordinates. Beginning as a (somewhat repetitive) arm dance that gradually builds in complexity, the dance is built in front of you, ultimately unfurling into something greater than the sum of its parts.

See two performances at Dancehouse as part of our discounted Evening Pass Package: COLOUR CORRECTION - 7:30PM (Sunday 6:30PM) In Colour Correction, movement and text are used as the primary tools to navigate the colour spectrum and question the deeply imbued (and often problematic) associations we make with colour. 48 POINTS (make a boy dance) - 8:30PM (Sunday 7:30PM) A dance made according to a set of randomly-generated co-ordinates.

In Colour Correction, movement and text are used as the primary tools to navigate the colour spectrum and question the deeply imbued (and often problematic) associations we make with colour. Issues of race, gender and spirituality bubble beneath the surface of the work, as the performers uncover both humorous and sometimes uncomfortable questions about our own, often self-righteous, colour-blindness.

This comedic contemporary dance work follows a peculiar character along a curious journey of discovery. Exploring themes of isolation, understanding and subverting expectations, the audience are brought on a rollercoaster ride of emotions, ideas and surprising encounters.

See two performances at Dancehouse as part of our discounted Evening Pass Package: SONOS - 7:00PM (Sunday 6:00PM) A contemporary dance work, Sonos explores a visceral understanding of the body through the manipulation of mediated sound. NONSENSICAL - 8:15PM (Sunday 7:15PM) This comedic contemporary dance work follows a peculiar character along a curious journey of discovery.

A contemporary dance work, Sonos explores a visceral understanding of the body through the manipulation of mediated sound. We live in an age where we are bombarded with mediated sound daily. The relentless penetration of mediated sound into our lives has dulled our minds and, in turn, our innate awareness of our bodies. If sound can affect our mood, can it change our physiology? What happens if the body can influence the sound we hear?

Dancehouse is delighted to present the world premiere of WE MAKE EACH OTHER UP, a new Housemate artist-in-residence production by Sydney-based dancer and choreographer, Rhiannon Newton. Stemming from a desire to be a little more plant-like in life and work, Newton asks 'could a dance grow as a plant does'?

Beginning by outlining David Graeber’s essay on the place of artistic practice within capitalism and the contradictory position of artists, Terry Leahy will explore alternative approaches to working as an artist. An alternative to capitalism that will be explored is the concept of an 'ecommony' - a society organised without money and with collectives self organising to provide goods and services for themselves and others.

NEXT STAGES is a series of practical, capacity-building workshops for independent dance artists and emerging artists from other art forms, led by industry experts. Each week an industry professional will be paired with a dance artist, to present insightful and hands on sessions that will sharpen your skills, arm you with practical tools, give you valuable insight into the arts industry and support you in building sustainable careers.

NEXT STAGES is a series of practical, capacity-building workshops for independent dance artists and emerging artists from other art forms, led by industry experts. Each week an industry professional will be paired with a dance artist, to present insightful and hands on sessions that will sharpen your skills, arm you with practical tools, give you valuable insight into the arts industry and support you in building sustainable careers.

David Pledger will discuss how artistic practice can be a dramaturgical tool for social and cultural change. Exploring how change can be created, curated and cultivated in the cultural sector and society at large by artistic practice whilst maintaining its intrinsic value. Citing examples from his own practice, David looks at the ways one operates at the granular level of artistic practice and how this can be transposed into how one behaves as a citizen.

In conjunction with the Housemate performance season of Rhiannon Newton's 'We Make Each Other Up', Caitlin Franzmann explores contemporary art’s potential to instigate change by way of critical listening, dialogue and embodied learning.

At the 2018 Performing Arts Market, Jacob Boehme delivered a timely speech that challenged the conventions of the Australian performing arts market place. In the spirit of this poignant key address, Jacob Boehme will be sharing with us his curatorial vision anchored around frames of navigation and connection as a way of deeply listening to Country and Community. He will also be questioning our civic responsibility as curators, practitioners and institutions.

NEXT STAGES is a series of practical, capacity-building workshops for independent dance artists and emerging artists from other art forms, led by industry experts. Each week an industry professional will be paired with a dance artist, to present insightful and hands on sessions that will sharpen your skills, arm you with practical tools, give you valuable insight into the arts industry and support you in building sustainable careers.

Dancehouse’s 12 for $12 prepaid credit is designed to make one off, last minute bookings easier! Simply pre-purchase a block of 12 hours of rehearsal time for $12 per hour ($144) to be redeemed against future bookings. At $12 per hour, this prepaid credit is even cheaper than membership rates! Rehearsals only, valid for 6 months from date of purchase.

A Dancehouse membership will put you front and centre to a very special dance world, that of the independent Australian dance community. There is no better way to keep your body agile and your mind mobile! Dancehouse Membership, valid a full 12 months from the day of signing up.