What’s Actually Happening
Alice Will Caroline
Hey… We had a bad dream, we did a bad thing, and when we woke up da-da-de da-de da-da-da-da-dum… A number of states of emergency have been declared, with a few more in the pipeline. We’ll have to do something about it. So we’ll raise our right hands and we’ll raise the other hands and our hands will come together in front of our faces then the palms will turn together and we’ll bend at our knees and we’ll hinge our backs back and we’ll keep going down and our backs will hit the ground and our heads will be on the floor and our feet will be so sore.
Performer and Choreographer: Alice Dixon
Performer and Choreographer: Caroline Meaden
Performer and Choreographer: Will McBride
Composer: Jeremy Meaden
Read more about the 2022 Keir Choreographic Award
Read interview with Claire Summers for Performance Review
Book a KCA Half Pass [Week 1] to see just 4 of the 8 KCA works (23—25 June) including:
Evaporative Body / Multiplying Body — Alan Schacher and WeiZen Ho
The ___ — Tra Mi Dinh
What’s Actually Happening — Alice Will Caroline
Wet Hard — Jenni Large
Alice Dixon, Will McBride and Caroline Meaden have been working together in Melbourne/Naarm since 2013. They have made and performed seven original works of dance and theatre, carving out a distinctive aesthetic and formal contribution to the local dance ecology. Blending forms and references to create highly local and specific “Gesamtkunstwerks”, they wilfully embrace and subvert “genre”, and slyly “perform performance”, allowing intuitive and subconscious logics to impose their desires on the process. Alice Will Caroline have presented work in festivals and venues including Dance Massive, Next Wave, FOLA, the Substation, Temperance Hall, Arts House, Abbotsford Convent and NGV.
The Keir Choreographic Award 2022 Commissions:
The Keir Choreographic Award is a partnership between Dancehouse, The Keir Foundation and the Australia Council for the Arts, with presenting partner Carriageworks.