‘We value everyone equally, but you know, of course each person has a role to play in the team that's been created, but no one is, you know, less valuable than another.’
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Antony Hamilton, Artistic Director Chunky Move. Image Credit: Peter Rosetzky
Antony Hamilton
‘When I'm making dance and when I think about choreography or art, I often relate my early childhood experiences to the things that I make now as well.’
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Alice Topp
‘I guess for a lot of people, ballet is still very much an evolving, developing language. I think people think it was probably stuck in a time and hasn't progressed. But modern ballet is very challenging and arresting and it's finding new ways of working with an old structure.’
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Elizabeth Cameron Dalman
‘In my hibernation my creativity turned to writing. I spent hours happily at my computer with my writing, which sometimes feels like choreography. The results of these writing hours are some rough chapters recounting special experiences of my life, and in particular, my life here at Mirramu.’
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Lloyd Newson
I used to say for a long time that I thought the dance was the Prozac of the art forms. […] there is an aesthetic that dominates our work, often complex or ugly or difficult issues are glossed over because people are pointing their feet and look very lovely.
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Cadi McCarthy
“every human has a body and bodies tell stories”
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Isabella Stone (Photo by Emma Fishwick)
Isabella Stone
“Dance can provide a space for people to have a kinesthetic response to something and to be given a place to meet their body in watching another body move.”
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Photo Credit Tiffany Parker
Daniel Riley
"I really loved the freedom of expression, and just realising that... I don't need to use my mouth if I wanna tell a story."
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Adam Wheeler
“some of the best advice that I ever got, as a young student, was make the dance that you want to watch”
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Dancers Shian Law, Rebecca Jensen, Jo Lloyd and Deanne Butterwork - Image by Peter Rosetzky
Jo Lloyd
“I have this curiosity for what my body remembers, also pre this life that I've known. And that's not to be esoteric, that's actually anchored in some of the incredibly fascinating research to do with trauma in the body and generational trauma.”
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Photo Pia Johnson
Joel Bray
“Dance has the ability to take the moment and to expand that out, so you can almost, you can take one or a few things, and really pull them apart and really understand them. […] Dance allows the possibility for authentic human to human encounters; that I think are becoming more and more precious in this digital world.”
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Mette Ingvartsen, photo by Danny Willems
Mette Ingvartsen
“The fact that the sexual undertone, or the desiring undertone that a lot of dance is operating through, for me it was very important to make it explicit. To actually say ‘okay part of what is happening here is a question of desire, it is a question of being stimulated physically. Then there are many different levels or layers of this happening of course. In my work it was about saying, we have to recognise that these underlying structures are there, and if we recognise it and even expose it explicitly then maybe we can actually look at for something else or question ourselves….”
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Ilse Ghekiere
“What is very specific about dance is that our profession is directly linked to our body and that invites a blurring of the private and the professional, that can often be sort of liberating, but it deviates away from a certain norm of how we think about our bodies. But I think it can also be very confusing and problematic, especially because, we have been trained in education to push our boundaries - so to talk about boundaries is a very interesting conversation”.
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San Francisco Ballet in Marston's Snowblind. (© Erik Tomasson)
Cathy Marston
“We need to work harder to make sure that everyone has equal opportunity to make that work”
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Image credit: Catherine Evans Piotr Pietrus
Mirjam Sögner & Renae Shadler
Dance often relies heavily on strong collaborations; a synergy between movement and music, choreography and the body, lighting and sound.
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Photo credit Justin Ridler.
David McAllister
“With dance it sort of felt right, I felt I could be myself and express myself, when I was dancing.”
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IETM Ball 2014 - Produced by Tristan Meecham © Image by Bryony Jackson
Bec Reid
“I have committed to rest of my dancing life, to making dance as inclusive as possible because my experience was very welcoming.”
Damien Jalet
“I really love to see dance as a place of exploration, where you actually try to capture something that is not really conscious.”
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Hillel Kogan
“Where we stand in space defines the way we move” from We Love Arabs.
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Joshua Pether
"It is easier to change an aesthetic rather than a physical form, so by having different bodies on stage you then start to change the aesthetic, which then starts to change peoples perspectives."
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