ESCALATOR 2025 Works



 
 
 
 

The Folded Scene by Alice Dixon

“You seem restless, in a kind of permanent way.” — Sarah Polley

Credits: 

Choreographer: Alice Dixon
Dancers: Alice Dixon, Martin Hansen, Rachael Mackie
Sound: includes compositions by Matthias Schack-Arnott and Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz. 106: III. Adagio by Bela Bartok.
Lighting Designer: Rachel Lee

Thank you: to Stephanie Lake Company, Martin, Rachael, Matthias, Geoffrey Watson and Chimene Steele-Prior.


AUSSIEAUSSIEAUSSIE
by Carmen Yih

HELLO NEW CITIZENS!  WELCOME TO AUSTRALIA! <3

⊹ ₊  ⁺‧₊˚ ♡ ପ(๑•ᴗ•๑)ଓ ♡˚₊‧⁺ ₊ ⊹

Credits: 

Choreographer and Performer: Carmen Yih
Projection Design and Programming: Derrick Duan
Lighting Designer: Rachel Lee
Music: Nabii (Grace Kim) and The Song of Australia by Caroline Carleton and Carl Linger
Costuming: Aaron Rueda


Slipping into Filth
by Marni Green

I’m in the burrow with you.
I offer all of my skin for you, I receive fruit in return.
I go back into the burrow with you.

Credits:  

Choreographer: Marni Green
Performers: Mara Galagher and Avril Eatherley
Composer: Robin Fox  
Costume designer: Andrew Treloar
Lighting designer: Rachel Lee
Additional music: I Need You Tonight by Punkin’ Machine


Sandunga by Robert Tinning

A diaspora holds many things. We can be in solidarity with many peoples at once.

Credits:

Choreographer: Robert Tinning
Composer: Louis Frere-Harvey 
Costume Designer: Andrew Treloar 
Lighting Designer: Rachel Lee 

Initial developments through: Instituto Sacatar Fellowship & Tanja Leidtke Studio Residency X Australian Dance Theatre

Thank you: To the ESCALATOR program, Stephanie Lake Company, Abbotsford Convent and the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation and their unceded lands we dance and create upon.


cold slow shock by Thomas Woodman

Risk is often pursued and avoided in the same breath. cold slow shock looks at how choreographic action, language and speculation can produce an impression of risk without a risky situating ever eventuating. It also considers tension, reconfiguration and uncanny transformation in the process.

Sometimes what you see is what you get. Sometimes what you see and what you get is a cold slow shock.

Credits: 

Choreographer: Thomas Woodman
Opening music: Toby Graham
Outside eye/text assistant: Megan Payne
Lighting Designer: Rachel Lee

 

IMAGES BY MARK GAMBINO & Luke Currie-Richardson