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After an award-winning season in 2016, this new version of RESTORE by Australian performance artist Renae Shadler is a time-accelerated journey into past, present and future. Presented in an international double-bill with the Australian premiere of LARA, a solo by Austrian dancer and choreographer Mirjam Sögner. A Dancehouse Community Access Season

In this durational dance piece, Ellen Davies and Alice Heyward look to the experimental and radical architecture movements of the 1960s and 1970s, using choreography to transform these unmade designs into living processes for growth, change, caution and fantasy.

A bespoke performance of body-voice story-telling in honour of the 8 year research and development process and the completion of the STAY IN YOUR POWER ALBUM-project. Witness as Charlotte continues her explorations into territories of the known and unknown; engaging with worlds and shared human experiencing, and investigating the spaces between body, breath, movement, voice, silence, sound, imagination, music, text, song form, life and improvisation. A DANCEHOUSE COMMUNITY ACCESS EVENT

Berlin based artists Renae Shadler (originally from Western Australia) and Austrian dancer and choreographer Mirjam Sögner will run a public masterclass exploring how dance and movement can collide to create new meanings. No prior dance experience is necessary to participate. Alongside the Australian premiere of LARA, a solo created and performed by Mirjam Sögner in a double bill with RESTORE. More details - https://www.trybooking.com/book/event?eid=371775

A DANCEHOUSE 2018 KEIR CHOREOGRAPHIC AWARD PUBLIC PROGRAM *** Pre-paid bookings are now closed, but there are tickets available at the door (Space 28, VCA) *** Over the past few years, American choreographer Meg Stuart has created several solos, exploring everyday movements and physical conditions. An evening of solo works presents a selection of these former solo works, as well as excerpts from evening-length performances.

In this masterclass, improvisation will be used as a strategy to explore body memory and physical and emotional states. The class will be lead through an investigation of the borders between knowing and not knowing, abstraction and intention, image and action. Limited places, all participants must be a Dancehouse Member.

Tickets to KCA Semi-FInals individual Programs (Program 1 or Program 2)

The Keir Choreographic Award Semi-Finals are Sold Out! BOOK NOW to put your name on the waiting list. We ask that you arrive at 10 minutes before the performance and make yourself known to Dancehouse staff at the door; any available tickets will be sold after the doors open at 7PM. By making this booking, you are not guaranteed a ticket to the KCA. We apologise in advance if you are unable to purchase tickets on the day.

A series of facilitated conversations aimed at contextualising the deep and subtle connections that the choreographed body fosters, in its multiplicity of forms and meanings, with the social, the ethical and the political.

A DANCEHOUSE 2018 KEIR CHOREOGRAPHIC AWARD PUBLIC PROGRAM >> A workshop intensive that excavates unregistered details about Ishmael Houston-Jones' seminal '80s work,THEM, reconstructing and transmitting the work in resonance with the Australian context, while uncovering powerful resonances with the present.

ON SCORES FOR THE DEAD & THE POLITICS OF DANCING >> Ishmael Houston-Jones's artistic practice, his curation and his teaching are inseparable from his activism. In this conversation with long-time Melbourne friend Philip Adams, they will be talking AIDS, loss, scores for the dead, the context of politics, the politics of dancing and potential prologues for the end of everything.

A DANCEHOUSE 2018 KEIR CHOREOGRAPHIC AWARD PUBLIC PROGRAM >> This is a workshop series for general audience members who would like to do some unlearning as they learn. Programmed around the performances of the Keir Choreographic Awards, enhance your experience with Alison Croggon and Robert Reid, co-editors and founders of the critical website Witness Performance. *This workshop will entitle participants to complimentary KCA tickets for the 6 and 7 of March.

THE PERFORMING OF THE SELF: AESTHETIC INDIVIDUALISM >> The predictions of the late 1960s to early 1970s that 'everyone is an artist' and that 'in the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes', have crystallized. This talk will focus on 'aesthetic individualism', which draws on truth games and bodily techniques from dance and performance, to examine modes of subjectivation in an experience economy.

A DANCEHOUSE 2018 KEIR CHOREOGRAPHIC AWARD PUBLIC PROGRAM >> Eszter Salamon questions the power of the gaze of the dancer and audience, and at the same time, the performative body. Is what we see what we get? Is the body a construction of our desire or our fears? What do we expose by exposing our body to the gaze of someone else? This performance is the public outcome of a choreographic lab led by Eszter and assisted by Boglàrka Börcsök the week prior.

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.