4 rooms, 4 diverse experiences, a new work directed by Michelle Ryan. Private View invites audiences into a world of secret desires and dreams, exploring taboo subjects of love and sex through diverse personal experiences.A voyeuristic new work from Restless Dance Theatre, Private View was created by award-winning director and choreographer Michelle Ryan and the Restless dancers with composer and singer Carla Lippis.Audiences catch fleeting glimpses of the dancers, seemingly unaware that they are being observed, as they unleash their innermost thoughts with unfiltered honesty. Raw e...
Exposed, explores vulnerability, uncertainty and risk through movement, design, and music. Be taken on a journey where the breath is a metaphor for feeling threatened or safe, agitated or calm, and the sonic possibilities of breath and entwined into the mesmerising score. Director Michelle Ryan said “It is my response to the feeling of vulnerability – a powerful standing up for oneself. Most of us are free to make choices about what parts of our life we keep private and what is public. But for some, this choice is often not so straight forward. We need to rely on others, sometimes strange...
Enter the expansive mirror-maze of this immersive dance and art installation. Stand transfixed as dancers weave around the 24 mirrored plinths, light swirls and sound pulsates.A reality-bending meditation on bodies of light, and the lightness of the body. Guests are encouraged to meander through the mirrored labyrinth, where roaming, shifting, and drifting can alter your point of view.Once inside the maze, witness how the tables turn as you transition from observer to observed. Stationary dancers scattered throughout the maze paradoxically appear to move, while moving performer...
About Counterpoise dance video is an international collaboration with Korean and Australian artists.Counterpoise traverses’ continents to bring together an exciting creative team. Restless Dance Theatre’s award-winning Artistic Director Michelle Ryan, 29Dong Dance Theater’s, Artistic Director Sunyoung Lee and the Korean Music Project’s Composer and Producer Sngkn Kim, and 8 dancers with and without disability to create a distinct dance theatre work. With so many opportunities for connection and exposure to different cultures, our separate identities have started to blur at the bou...
Guttered explores the notion of being a winner or a loser within the context of ten pin bowling and reunites the award-winning creative team from Intimate Space. Set in a classic bowling alley, with the mesmerising sights and sounds, the audience are up close to the action as the performers put themselves on the line for success or failure. Set in a classic bowling alley, with the mesmerising sights and sounds, the audience are immersed in the competitive and social interaction of a game. Guttered further develops the presentation of work in non-traditional venues, which Restless explored so...
"It has to be said that never have the Restless dancers looked so good Dance Australia ...this highly emotional and utterly superb performance left me delighted, but drained, and with a tear in my eye. It was marvellous." - Broadway World "[This] significant piece makes the strongest possible claim for the restoration of full funding to this nationally and internationally important ensemble." - The AdvertiserSeeing Through Darkness is an exciting new work directed by Michelle Ryan. The work was an immersive experience within the Art Gallery of South Australia and is inspired by the...
A dancer, a stranger, and a moment of meaningful connection.Created by Australia’s leading inclusive dance company Restless Dance Theatre, Listen to See is an intimate experience of discovery to rethink our perspectives on what it means to be human, and the diverse abilities that we all possess.Scattered in a performance space, one duo and three solo dancers are equipped with headphones and an MP3 player, inviting audience members to share a three-minute choreographic exchange. Audience members may choose to experience different intimate performances by moving from one dancer to anot...
For millennia, artists have strived to articulate the human experience in divine forms. Images of ‘perfection’ are everywhere. But we live in an imperfect world full of unpredictability and wonky angles. In Rewards for the Tribe, two of Australia’s most influential and innovative dance companies Chunky Move and Restless Dance Theatre, collaborate for the first time. Together they ask, “is there such a thing as utopia by design?” Five dancers, with and without disability, wrestle with the archetypes of divine geometry laid out by the Old Masters. Together they bend, crumple and reor...
“Innovative, potent, bold and beautiful, Intimate Space is an extraordinary and highly entertaining experience.”– Limelight Magazine, ★★★★★ "Brilliant theatrical ideas don’t always translate into successful performance. Intimate Space does."– The Australian“By turns tender and provocative, Intimate Space invites us to contemplate questions of public and private activity in a work that is insightful, touching and compelling.”– Arts Hub “Each vignette is a moving experience, some poignant, some comical but with a deeper meaning underneath…a remarkable wo...
An imitate performance of Restless' award-winning works, Seeing Through Darkness and Ecoute Pour Voir (Listen To See). “A show that makes the heart sing.” - InDailySeeing Through Darkness An evocative and uplifting dance work directed by Michelle Ryan and inspired by the works of Georges Rouault. Following the performance there is an immersive lighting experience for all ages to enjoy.Écoute Pour Voir Experience this captivating dance performance, seven artists, scattered in space and dancing simultaneously.+ Michelle’s Story A special scree...
