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SUB




Traversing fractured earth.






“The ubiquitous material was transformed into an object quite beautiful and almost anthropomorphic, exaggerating the dynamism as the dance became increasingly violent and the tubing began to shred... the group electrified in movement, sirens blaring and feedback from a dragged microphone emulating crushing rock, the audience’s seating platform vibrating with each beat.”
- Lucy Hawthorne, ArtsHub

“A highly compelling visual and auditory experience... SUB explores the profound possibilities of contact and connection despite, or perhaps because of, an indefinable atmosphere of chaos and disrepair. An enthralling, deeply conceptualised work which softly layers themes of care, relationship and climate responsibility.
- Betty Sweetlove








Escaping a surface world littered with crises, we burrow into soil and stone to seek shelter.

Experience a contemporary dance performance that entangles natural symphonies with industrialised extraction, as four dancers dig closer to the polyrhythms of the core.

SUB cracks through our resistance to hope, a soft defiance in the enduring relationship of bodies and materials. In this place that both attracts and scares us – this wet, restless and difficult place – we engage with the terror and volatility of the living natural world.

RESOURCES

Online Program
https://www.gutsdance.org.au/sub-program

Conceptual Writing
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PERFORMANCES


INDance presented by Sydney Dance Company
August 22 - 24, 2024
Neilson Studio Theatre
Sydney (NSW)

The Unconformity festival
Oct 19 - 21, 2023
Queenstown, lutruwita (TAS)
Araluen Arts Centre
August 3 - 5, 2023
Mparntwe (Alice Springs, NT)



CREDITS

Concept, Choreography & Performance by Ashleigh Musk in profound and ongoing collaboration with:

Frankie Snowdon, Madeleine Krenek, Jenni Large
collaborating performers

Georgia Rudd, Samakshi Sidhu
 touring performers

Anna Whitaker
sound design

Jen Hector
lighting & spatial design

Pierce Eldridge dramaturgy & concept development

Elliat Rich
costume design

Lizzie Verstappen
costume manufacturer

Alongside Toni Lord (choreographic intern), Léuli Eshrāghi (initial dramaturgy & concept development), Ivan Trigo Miras (photography & videography), Erica McCalman (producing support), Luci Young, Alyse Canton (secondments)
Developed with the support of
2023
Research residency
The Unconformity Festival, Queenstown
Tasdance, Launceston
lutruwita (Tasmania)

2022
Creative Development
GUTS Studio / Araluen Arts Centre
Mparntwe, NT

2021
The Makers Program
Supercell Festival of Contemporary Dance
HOTA, Home of the Arts, QLD

Bath St Residency
Red Hot Arts Central Australia
Mparntwe, NT

SUB is created in partnership with Tasdance and supported by the Northern Territory Government through Arts NT, the Australian Government through RISE and Creative Australia, Darwin Festival through the Spotlight Creative Development Fund and the Araluen Arts Centre. The development of SUB has been supported through residencies with Red Hot Arts Central Australia, The Makers Program at Supercell Festival of Contemporary Dance (QLD) and The Unconformity (TAS).


Produced by GUTS Dance / Central Australia.
Living, working and making on the sovereign lands of the Arrernte people of Mparntwe/Alice Springs. I pay respects to all First Nations peoples and elders throughout time. I recognise and honour their unique connection to place, community and movement. Always was, always will be.