photography by gregory lorenzutti

‘This year’s interdisciplinary project is a rearrangement of material from Merce Cunningham’s Ocean (1994), a work he conceived with John Cage, although Cage died before it could be produced. Celebrating 30 years since its premier at the Cirque Royal in Brussels, the Cunningham Trust, through dancer Melissa Toogood, has given permission for us to work with elements of the work and to respond to its teeming offers. A two-part programme sees the dancers perform an arrangement of the original choreography directed by Toogood and their response to its teeming offers, conceptually and choreographically, through a group devising process.’

Carol Brown, Head of VCA Dance

Ocean (an arrangement) ★★★★

[…] ‘Taken together, the two halves are a reminder of the sensual pleasure of watching a large and enthusiastic ensemble patterning and repatterning a stage coloured as if by many waves.’

Reviewed by Andrew Fuhrmann in The Age