6/7 empty Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal

Influenced by her training in traditional Indonesian dance, Japanese martial arts, Indigenous Australian dance, ballet and modern dance (in Miami and New York City), Australian-Javanese dance artist Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal has a unique choreographic language. Her studio choreographic practice uses the recollection of experience of phenomenon in nature to transform her anxious, frustrated, confused and helpless feelings about social and environmental tragedies into open, fluid, mindful and malleable physical and temporal expression. Download detailed production information (PDF).

Cafe Rebetika! is an epic story of the heart; a passionate and uplifting theatre production which tells a dramatic story set in the slums of 1930ís urban Greece, during the rise of rebetika, the "Greek blues". Cabaret, music, theatre and dance unite in this new production set in the exotic and gutsy rebetika sub-culture. Born out of outcast despair, the men and women of rebetika create a utopia of acceptance, respect and defiance. Download detailed production information (PDF).

Nefes Ensemble

Nefes Ensemble takes audiences on a magical carpet ride through 500 years of music from the Palaces of the Ottoman Empire. The ensemble is a unique synthesis of musicians from the Melbourne Symphony and Melbourne musicians of diverse ethnic and cultural heritages. Eight musicians perform an exciting program of solo and chamber music with instruments such as the ney ñ a reed flute, yayli tanbur ñ a bowed fretted stringed instrument and plucked instruments such as Oud and Kanun. This is combined with cello, bassoon and a variety of percussion to produce a sound that is unique to Melbourne. Download detailed production information (PDF).

Survivor Dadang Christanto & Khaled Sabsabi

Survivor brings together a major performance piece by Dadang Christanto and recent works by Khaled Sabsabi. In an examination of disaster and conflict across South Eastern and Western Asia, Survivor asks us to contemplate loss and history, politics and shared humanity through works that are both challenging and poetic. Detailed production information coming soon.

En Trance Yumi Umiumare

Yumi Umiumareís electrifying performance style is in demand the world over. In this bold new work, Umiumare is set to detonate her extraordinary vision from the international to the other-worldy as she thrusts us into the twisted corridors of the un-living. At times brutally visceral, the performance is counterbalanced with the purity of digital painting produced live with her collaborating artists, Bambang Nurcahyadi and Naomi Ota. Detailed production information coming soon.