Program 1:  Saturday 30^th August @ 7.30pm

*Each program will commence with a First Nations performance event.

PALYKU NGUURRA KARLALIIMPA

A solo dance work that follows a journey of reconnection to culture and country. Using hair as a conduit for the intertwined threads of DNA and familial bonds passed down from her mothers. This deeply personal exploration of womanhood, resilience, and belonging weaves together themes of maternal heritage and the longing to return to the land of her ancestors.

Choreographer – Maddison Fraser

Performer – Maddison Fraser

Music – Maddison Fraser

Mentor – Amy Flannery

Cultural Consultants – Aunty Nat Stream and Family Voices – Mum and Maddison Fraser

Maddison Fraser Biography

Maddison Fraser is from the Palyku and Yindgibarndi Tribes in the Pilbara of Western Australia. Growing up on Wajuk Land in Perth, Western Australia all her life and she has now moved to Darkinjung Land on the Central Coast of New South Wales. Maddison completed her studies at NAISDA Dance College obtaining her Advance Diploma. She has completed industry placements at Critical Path with Jasmin Sheppard, Jasmine Gulash and Vicki Van Hout unpacking and investigating Indigenous Dramaturgy through a series of workshops. She has performed with Catapult on Hysteria, and for Darwin Festival on Song Spirals, working with renowned choreographers such as Angie Diaz, Deon Hastie and Sue Healey. Maddison was a performer/collaborator on Jasmin Sheppard’s The Cord, commissioned by Catapult for the New Annual Arts Festival, as is a performer/collaborator with Catapult’s Triple Bill with choreographers Tra Mi Dinh, Anton and Sara Black premiering at the Impact Festival, 2025. She looks forward to sharing her dance and stories with you.

Please… continue?

Choreographed by Remy Rochester and Angus Onley

With its playful storytelling and disorienting movement ‘Please… continue?’ is a heartfelt homage to the richness of not-knowing, and to the absurdity of our everyday.

Remy Rochester Biography

Remy Rochester is a contemporary dance artist. She trained in Sydney Dance Company’s Pre-Professional Year (2019-2020) and understudied with the main company for their works ‘[ab] intra’ and ‘Impermanence’. Remy’s recent performances include ‘Slip Stream’ by Anton Projects, ‘Adriana Lecouvreur’ by Opera Australia, and ‘Deep Water’ created and performed in collaboration with Allie Graham and Sydney Art Quartet. She has also performed in Stephanie Lake’s ‘Colossus’ for Sydney Festival, Omer Backley-Astrachan’s ‘Human Remains’ and “Rhapsody”with Catapult Dance Company,’ and Eliza Cooper’s ‘Bat Lake’ at Riverside Theatre.⁠

Fall! Falter!! Dance!!!

By Ryuichi Fujimura

A witty and moving depiction of a life in dance and the relentless desire to just keep dancing.

Writer, Choreographer and Performer: Ryuichi Fujimura ​

Video artist: Laura Turner

Musician: Hamed Sadeghi

Design Consultant: Tobhiyah Stone Feller ​

Dramaturge: Carlos Gomes

Rehearsal Director: Cloe Fournier

Mentor: Kate Champion

Ryuichi Fujimara Biography

Ryuichi is an independent dancer and performance maker. Since the mid 1990’s, Ryuichi has studied contemporary dance technique as well as improvisation and choreography in Australia and overseas.  Over the last twenty years, Ryuichi has collaborated with both emerging and established artists/companies in various dance, theatre, opera, site-specific performance and film projects including Xavier le Roy, Victoria Hunt, Justin Shoulder, Latai Taumoepeau, Vicki Van Hout, Jim Sharman, Cloe Fournier, Force Majeure, De Quincey Co., La Fura dels Baus, Clockfire Theatre co,. Future Makers (Dance Makers Collective) and Living Room Theatre. In recent years, Ryuichi has expanded his practice to include interdisciplinary collaborations with artists from various disciplines, such as Mel O’Callaghan, WeiZen Ho, ArtHitecs, Alicia Frankovich, Hamed Sadeghi and Justeene Williams. In 2024, Ryuichi developed and performed Pink Regenesis of the Curse in collaboration with WeiZen Ho for EDGE Inner West at White Bay Power Station for Biennale of Sydney 2024 in April, performed in Club Origami, a dance show for young children by Sydney Dance Company in July and in Today I feel a soft breeze, a 24 hour dance marathon for Bleach* Festival on the Gold Coast in August.

Cue Lab

By Emma Riches

Cue Lab is a frame, a process, a way of working, a chain-reaction, a game, a social experiment, a web of activity and a performance.

Choreographer – Emma Riches

Collaborating Performers – Mitchell Christie, Josh Freedman, Emma Harrison, Jacinta Mullen

Sound Designer – Matthew Zambon

Mentor – Martin del Amo

Producer – Anthea Doropoulos

Commissioning Organisation – DirtyFeet

Emma Riches Biography

Based in the Blue Mountains NSW, Emma Riches is an independent artist and VCA graduate who works across performance, choreographic and teaching practices with an interest in the ways these roles can inform each other. She has danced with notable artists and collectives over the last decade including Jill Crovisier, Jo Lloyd, Alice Will Caroline, Siobhan McKenna, Tra Mi Dinh, Emma Harrison, Dance Makers Collective, Deep Soulful Sweats and TasDance.

Emma has presented work at Brand X, The University of Melbourne and LASALLE College of the Arts (Singapore), amongst others. She is the initiator of ‘The Not New Project’, an online platform that profiles specific aspects of dance practice through bite-sized publications. In 2024, Emma participated in the ATLAS Program at ImPulsTanz where she developed her solo work ‘never are’ before its premiere earlier this year.