24/09/2009 - 14:00
Australia/Melbourne
LINK creates Ripple Effect at Dolphin Theatre
Fresh from their successful mid-year overseas tour, LINK – the graduate dance company of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts – takes a program of exciting new choreographic works to the Dolphin Theatre at the end of September.
Ripple Effect LINK Dance Company for three performances only on Friday 25 Saturday at 7.30pm, and on Saturday 26 September at 2pm and 6pm at UWA’s Dolphin Theatre. New Zealander Craig Bary, who has worked extensively with highly-respected Australian and New Zealand choreographers including Gary Stewart of Australian Dance Theatre, has created a work specifically for the LINK dancers entitled ‘Caused to Happen’. This dance theatre work explores how strangers may have adverse effects on the lives of others, examining how a simple decision or act can lead to the disruption or breakdown of another person’s journey through life. A working class family deals with the hardship of everyday, a student deals with the rejection from friends and a young couple struggle to find their feet in society. How are they related? Why are they choosing to act in certain ways? And what will happen next? ‘Caused to Happen’ will feature original music composed by WAAPA Composition student, Kynan Tan. In addition to his choreographic talents, Bary will also appear on stage with the LINK dancers performing in a new work by LINK Artistic Director, Michael Whaites. ‘Things That Remain’ was partially developed in July when LINK was in residence at the Performing Arts Forum in St. Erme, France as part of their overseas tour. “The work is a snapshot of the things that get left behind, from the personal to the universal, from saying goodbye to a dear friend, to the reverence and joy of remembering the past,” says Whaites. “It also looks at identity and crowds, individuality and anonymity.” Using audio visual elements to heighten the work’s themes, ‘Things that Remain’ will also feature Perth actor George Shevtsov, best known for his role as Ken Sherry in the film Camera D’or award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1996.
