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Underground Dancenorth
Toured by Performing Lines for Mobile States: Touring Contemporary Performance Australia.
Image: Fiona Melder  
 
Direction
 Gavin Webber
Choreography
 Gavin Webber and dancers
Rehearsal Direction
 Michelle Ryan
Lighting Design
 Jo Currey
Music and Sound Design
 Luke Smiles
Dancers
 Alice Hinde, Charmene Yap, Hsin Ju Chiu, Joshua Thomson, Kate Harman, Kyle Page
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Underground is an explosive new dance theatre work, showcasing the gutsy choreography of Dancenorth’s Artistic Director, Gavin Webber: “fast, dangerous, quirky but with a core of almost angry sadness”. (The Courier Mail)
 
In Underground, Gavin collaborates with the young and dynamic ensemble of Townsville-based company Dancenorth.

Underground is set in a subway during rush hour, a place of crowded isolation, familiar yet strange.

Audiences are transported to a world where commuters slip between mundane reality and a vivid dream world – disconnected from each other, yet capable of great compassion and tenderness.

Underground shifts from darkly moody to hilariously funny to terrifyingly athletic, with Luke Smiles’ powerful score turning it up with Nick Cave, Nine Inch Nails and Messerchups.

Gavin’s style developed over a decade working with Meryl Tankard (Australian Dance Theatre) and Wim Vandekeybus (Belgian company Ultima Vez). He was a co-founder of Splintergroup, whose dance theatre work lawn astonished audiences in Sydney and Perth Festivals in 2006.

  Visit Dancenorth website 
  Premiered School of Arts Townsville April 2006 under the title Gravity Feed. Remounted Townsville May 2007. 2009: Toured through Mobile States to PICA, Perth; Performance Space, Sydney; Arts House, Melbourne; Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart; Brisbane Power 
    
  Mobile States is a national touring initiative of the Theatre Board of the Australia Council. It has received support from the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and through the national performing arts touring program, Playing Australia. 
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"Ripe with metaphor resonating with ideas of chance, death and resuscitation, this work challenged the very concepts of gravity…mesmerising.”"

Dance Australia

"…showcased Webber’s style of dance: fast, dangerous, quirky but with a core of almost angry sadness."

QWeekend, The Courier Mail

"'...thrillingly exuberant...'"

The Australian, Oct 2008
   
 

 
   
 
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