How Rising festival brought us dance in times of plague
With former Chunky Move founder and choreographer Gideon Obarzanek as co-director, dance had a heavy presence at this year’s Rising festival.
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With former Chunky Move founder and choreographer Gideon Obarzanek as co-director, dance had a heavy presence at this year’s Rising festival.
RISING, a festival three years in the making, has opened today. Victoria's newest major event commences its first uninterrupted, full program of music, art, performance and ceremony that will reawaken and reconnect the city to the world, inviting audiences to get lost, go deep and shake loose.
In one of two RISING festival shows, the daring Danish choreographer will not only dance but convulse, gurn, laugh grotesquely and bark like a dog.
Mette Ingvartsen brings her daring examinations of collective mania and pornography to next month’s RISING festival.