Choreography
Stephanie LAKE with the dancers
MA BO
Lighting
Joy CHEN
Dancers
BeijingDance/LDTX
Tim CHEN, CHEN Wei-jie, FENG Xiao-ming, GAO Rong,
HAO Ying, HUANG Siang, Alexis KAM, MA Yue,SHI Qiang,
SUN Meng-yao, TIAN Ru-meng, WU Mi, ZHANG Xue-feng
EDC
Georgie BAILEY, Richard CILLI, Isabella HOOD,
Bernhard KNAUER, Jake MCLARNON, Josephine WEISE
Program duration
66 mins
Premiere
2019.09
Auto Cannibal
When creating new dance works I’m conscious of the regurgitation of
past choreographic ideas. I’m sometimes afraid that I’m repeating myself
or cannibalising my own work. But the fact is that no idea - in art, technology
or ideology - is born in a vacuum. We are all a product of our influences
and experiences. Ideas are also part of a life cycle-they are born, they
thrive, they degrade and deteriorate and become the fertiliser for the
next batch of ideas. Our modern world is obsessed with newness and
consumption but this work is an ode to re-using,re-purposing, re-invigorating.
In Auto Cannibal we embrace the palimpsests of previous choreographies
and see them grow and evolve through the bodies of these extraordinary
dancers, meeting from across the world.
Music
Robin FOX
Costume
XING Ya-meng
Choreographer Introduction
Stephanie LAKE is a multi award-winning choreographer, dancer and
director of Stephanie Lake Company based in Melbourne. Her acclaimed
works including Colossus, Pile of Bones, Skeleton Tree, DUAL and Aorta
tour widely and have been presented in France, Belgium, Dublin, Hong
Kong, Denmark, Scotland, Luxembourg, Singapore and New Zealand as
well as across Australia. LAKE has created works for many leading
companies including Sydney Dance Company, Chunky Move, New Zealand
Dance Company, Queensland Ballet, Frontier Danceland (Singapore),
Tasdance, Dancenorth and Expressions. She is the current recipient of
the Australia Council Fellowship for Dance and previously the prestigious
Sidney Myer and Dame Peggy Van Praagh Fellowships. LAKE collaborates
across theatre, film, music video and visual art and has directed several
large-scale works for over 1000 participants.
Music Composer Introduction
Robin FOX is an internationally recognised Melbourne based audio-visual
artist working across live performance, exhibitions, public art projects and
composition for contemporary dance. His laser works, which synchronise
sound & visual electricity in hyper-amplified 3D space have been performed
in over 60 cities worldwide. His latest, Single Origin, premiered at Unsound
Krakow and has played at Caixa (Barcelona), Mona Foma, FACT (Liverpool),
Sonica Fest London, Unsound Baku (Azerbaijan), Berlin Atonal, Mutek Montreal
& Mexico, Vancouver New Music Festival and Semibreve Festival (Portugal).
Since 2008 FOX has composed music for over 25 contemporary dance works.
His art/science sound work Interior Design: Music for the Bionic Ear was
selected by the Paris Rostrum of Composers in 2012. In 2016 he founded
MESS (Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio).
Encircling Voyage
When we arrive to this world
We set off voyage which will be encircling
Promise that we will be back for sure
Back to the origin
Cries that are resonant and melodious
Vowing the weight of vita
Life, to return
Like a landscape that is incredibly attractive to us...
Music
David DARLING
Sound Effects
MAO Liang
Costume
WANG Yan
Choreographer Introduction
MA Bo was born in Mizhi, Shanxi province, and is among one of most passionate
female choreographers in China. From 1987 to 1991, she studied at Beijing Dance
Academy and stayed on as a teacher after graduation. MA joinedGuangdong
Modern Dance Company in 1993, and was with Beijing Modern Dance Company
from 1999. MA became one of founding members of BeijingDance/LDTX in 2005.
MA collaborates with her husband LI Han-zhong in numerous classic creative
projects such as: All River Red, Cold Arrow - Game of Go (Weiqi), Faded Monologue,
Sorrowful Songs, Between Line, Speeding, Enigma.