Culminate – Force Majeure

Overview

Culminate is the culmination of a two-year dance theatre laboratory and joint project of Force Majeure, Performance Space and Carriageworks. It's all about putting the experimentation and risk into local dance and will showcase three of the country's best emerging Indigenous choreographers — Ghenoa Gela, Victoria Hunt and Jason Pitt. This is one for those who like their dance uber contemporary and boundary-pushing (hint: there probably won't be any tutus).

While last year's Cultivate laboratory stimulated dancers and choreographers with risk-taking experimentation, Culminate will open the project up to the public, with a series of work-in-progress showings. The artists are also holding a free panel on Saturday, August 16, in which they'll discuss questions of cultural diversity in live performance and share their own stories about making work from the perspective of the 'Other'.

Maximum plays as part of Performance Space's Score season of works driven by dance, movement, music and noise. Highlights include the genre-defying fusion piece Keep Everything by critically acclaimed dance company Chunky Move, the bodybuilding/dance mash-up that is Natalie Abbott's acclaimed MAXIMUM, and Psychic Synth, a digital work by Pia Van Gelder that will read your mind.