Dancehouse

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.

Dancehouse in collaboration with YIRRAMBOI First Nations Festival Montreal-based dance company Lara Kramer Danse presents the fierce and visceral Windigo. Returning to her grandmother’s home in the Lac Seul Reserve in northwestern Ontario as part of Treaty 3, Kramer confronts a latent war lurking under the surface. A northern epic with the air of a post-apocalyptic ballad, Windigo exorcises the demons and undercurrents of the violence perpetrated against First Nation peoples on Turtle Island.

A two-day immersion into Contact Improvisation with respected Melbourne-based improvisational duo [ two for now ], Emily Bowman and Joey Lehrer. They will be exploring the dynamic play of natural forces, such as gravity and momentum, with the communicative ability of touch and contact.

A new work by Australian dance luminary Russell Dumas, Cultural Residues 2020, explores embodied provenance, presentation and representation—history and fake news. This venue is wheelchair accessible. TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR

Rosalind Crisp asks how dance might embody & understand the extinction crisis in East Gippsland. A response to Crisp's sense of loss & responsibility for the devastation of the country that has allowed her to share in the spoils of colonialism, DIRtywork is a collision between her practice & research project Dance In Regional disaster zones with Vic McEwan, Andrew Morrish & Peter Fraser. Without claiming solutions, this work peels back Crisp's practice to reflect the volatile mess we are in.

Sensorial Workshop - Russell Dumas We Move You gives audiences new ways of appreciating choreography by first experiencing it corporeally. After arriving at Dancehouse, you will be guided into experiencing the dance of a Dance Massive artist with your body before watching the performance. This invitation embodies the idea that dance is the most participatory art form, best understood through dancing. Workshop includes one free ticket to 'Cultural Residues 2020', 5PM 24th March.

QUAKE is a synthesis of hypnotic sound and uncanny movement, developed through the international collaboration of four independently renowned artists, anchored by their ground-breaking work in the fields of sound and choreographic composition, computer technology and installation. This venue is wheelchair accessible. TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR

9PM - DARK NIGHT: Entangled between the brute realities of the nation’s underbelly and its glossy surface, Dark Night explores the crumbling humanitarian ideals of a world in crisis. 10PM - QUAKE: a synthesis of hypnotic sound and uncanny movement, developed through the international collaboration of renowned artists, anchored by their ground-breaking work in the fields of sound, choreographic composition, computer technology and installation. This venue is wheelchair accessible.

Entangled between the brute realities of the nation’s underbelly and its glossy surface, Dark Night explores the crumbling humanitarian ideals of a world in crisis. This venue is wheelchair accessible. THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT

From the human body to the cosmos, HYPERSPACE is an inquiry into the metrics we use to measure the deep unknowns of the universe. This venue is not wheelchair accessible. TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR

Sensorial Workshop - James Batchelor We Move You gives audiences new ways of appreciating choreography by first experiencing it corporeally. After arriving at Dancehouse, you will be guided into experiencing the dance of a Dance Massive artist with your body before watching the performance. This invitation embodies the idea that dance is the most participatory art form, best understood through dancing. Workshop includes one free ticket to 'HYPERSPACE', 6.30PM 23rd March.

Expanding on Dancehouse's 2018 artist in residence Rhiannon Newton's 'We Make Each Other Up', Dancehouse's Dance Massive artists are invited to contribute excerpts from texts that have influenced their practice and thinking. Each text is accompanied by a score and short note from the artist, shared in a one-to-one reading.

A series of timely and incisive 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, ethical and political. #1 – What’s your discourse? #2 – Who's got the power? #3 – Who gets to dance? #4 – Can you learn to dance? #5 – Are we safe?

For her much-anticipated new piece, Atlanta Eke choreographs a performance and multimedia installation for 4 dancers, 4 tennis ball machines, 400 tennis balls and a robotic lute. This venue is wheelchair accessible.

A new work by Australian dance luminary Russell Dumas, Cultural Residues 2020, explores embodied provenance, presentation and representation—history and fake news. PREVIEW ONLY This venue is wheelchair accessible.

From environmental disaster to personal trauma, Concrete Impermanence reveals the fragility of existence through a choreography of people and paper sculptures. This venue is not wheelchair accessible.

A Faint Existence is a powerful physical meditation on impermanence, fragility and mortality in the age of climate change. This venue is wheelchair accessible.

Sandra Parker uses this somewhat unconventional platform for intimate sharing & critical dialogue to dig deeply into the interrogations raised by the process, theme & production of her work-in-progress, ‘Adherence’. Drawing on themes of power & authority, this new work examines the potential for change through human persistence, endurance & transformation inside a highly regulated & controlled environment. Sandra will be in critical dialogue with dance critic & urbanist Jana Perkovic.

Post Reality Vision is an experimental choreographic investigation into the visionary body and the body as a vision — a rapidly unfolding danse macabre. This venue is wheelchair accessible.

Loosely inspired by TANZ IM AUGUST’s Dance Library and expanding on Rhiannon Newton’s artist-in-residence project, TEXT-ures, Dancehouse’s Dance Massive artists are invited to contribute three excerpts from texts that have deeply influenced their practice or thinking. They were also invited to choose a score to be performed by the reader as the text is read to them, thus building a text(ural) exchange.

‘Utterance’ takes audiences on a rhythmic journey, navigating entangled patterns of sound and proposing intriguing new ways to understand the relationship between language, sound and the human body. This venue is not wheelchair accessible.

Sensorial Workshop - Siobhan McKenna We Move You gives audiences new ways of appreciating choreography by first experiencing it corporeally. After arriving at Dancehouse, you will be guided into experiencing the dance of a Dance Massive artist with your body before watching the performance. This invitation embodies the idea that dance is the most participatory art form, best understood through dancing. Workshop includes one free ticket to 'Utterance', 6.30PM 15th March.

Over a weeklong workshop, we will explore the components of writing a dance review, discuss the importance of audience (who you are writing for), and develop tools to approach a range of different dance forms. We will also look at the importance and impact of cultural context when writing about any art form. Participants will be asked to review performances at the festival, and we will read and critique these together during some of the workshops.

Post Reality Vision is an experimental choreographic investigation into the visionary body and the body as a vision — a rapidly unfolding danse macabre. PREVIEW ONLY This venue is wheelchair accessible.

Dancehouse and Midsumma present a Kaleidoscopic take on 50 years of queer dance history.

Simona Castricum, Mama Alto and Xanthe Dobbie in conversation with Alison Bennett What can the queer body really do? How can queer culture question and shift oppressive binary norms and power structures? How does it share its influences and invite others in? What are the intersections between queer culture and contemporary society and what tensions arise in relation to religion, class, gender, feminism and censorship?

Jinhua Qian, Bella Mason and Nunzio Madden in conversation with Quinn Eades As queer culture becomes more and more a global phenomena, for both queer and non-queer communities, what does being queer really mean? Is being queer simply what you are or what you do? This discussion will explore what might be lost or gained through such shifts in meaning and how queer histories inform queer futures holistically.

Two weeks and 10 x dance classes exploring queer dance manifestations and possibilities from a range of teachers in a range of styles. Single classes available & Tickets available on the door

James Welsby, Phillip Adams and Dennis Altmann in conversation with Angela Bailey Considering the globalisation and commodification of queer culture, what are the local specificities? Which forms of queerness resist these forces and which choose to embrace them and why? 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

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.

Groundbreaking choreographer and post modern dance pioneer, Deborah Hay presents her internationally acclaimed 2002 lecture-performance: 'A Lecture on the Performance of Beauty', inspired by her solo 'Beauty'.

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)!

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. TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR

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.

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.

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.