Program 1:  Saturday 30^th August @ 7.30pm

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

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 humorous and heartfelt solo dance work that playfully blends movement and stand-up to reflect on the life of a contemporary dancer.

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

Emma Riches is a regional artist based in the Blue Mountains in NSW, who works across performance, choreographic and teaching practices with an interest in the ways these roles can intersect and inform each other. She has danced with notable choreographers including Jo Lloyd, Alice Will Caroline, Siobhan McKenna, Phillip Adams/Matthew Bird and Victoria Hunt and has presented work at Temperance Hall, Dancehouse, The University of Melbourne and LASALLE College of the Arts (Singapore). Emma was an artist in residence at Schoolhouse Studios through which she began developing an online writing project titled ‘The Not New Project’.