UTOPINA Repertory Lab | Excerpts from Kontakthof, a piece by Pina Bausch In 2025, celebrated international artist Julie Shanahan returned to Australia to lead the final workshop in the UTOPINA Repertory Lab | Excerpts from Kontakthof, a piece by Pina Bausch. Once again, an extraordinary group of neurodiverse artists and artists living with disability joined us for this deeply collaborative experience. The sense of community, generosity, and shared discovery throughout the workshop was profound—creating space for trust, artistic risk-taking, and genuine connection. The first UTOPINA Reper...
The Day the Wrong Train Took Me to the Right Place is set on a moving train/tram. This immersive experience uses stories that follow the dancers lives from their homes to their intended destination exploring the social anxiety people with disability feel in the realm of public transport. Experiential and immersive work connects the audiences emotionally as the dancers share their unique experiences through dance theatre. Artists with intellectual disability or neurodivergent think differently and see the world differently. Sometime however the world looks at them differently making assumption...
