Dancehouse Seasons

Dancehouse seasons include commissioning new works and offering renewed exposure and presenting opportunities for already existing works. As well as showcasing Melbourne-based artists, we regularly bring interstate and international artists to Melbourne.

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2024

Season One
21 February—16 March

Flesh Vessel by Jayden Lewis Wall & Melissa Yvonne Pham

Perhaps…who knows by Rosie Fayman & Jonathan Homsey

Echo by Thomas Woodman

Dream Cellscapes by Alice Weber

Pass The Buck #6 with Burn City Krump

Alter Edith by Holly Durant

Season Two
22 June — 3 August

Wet Hard Long by Jenni large

Ānanda: Dance of Joy by Christopher Gurusamy

Perhaps… who Knows by Rosie Fayman & Jonathan Homsey

Funk Station Vol. 3 with Funk Station (Chun Lee & Sayoko Naito)

Outside In: Lecture Demonstration by Christopher Gurusamy

Season Three (Melbourne Fringe)
2 — 19 October

Fertile Ground by Ashleigh Musk & Michael Smith

The Solos by Weave Movement Theatre

I.D. by Stephanie Sorn Dixon & L2R

TOMATO by CHOU Kuan Jou

VOW(d): CRATE WOMEN by Catherine Magill

Cosmos by Callum Mooney

The Bloom by Jessie McCall

two thread by Karlia & Danni

Superposition by Gabriel Sinclair & Jazmyn Carter

Grim Grinning Ghosts by Alix Kuijpers

2023

Season One
12—22 April

HERE NOW! — Ryuichi Fujimura

(UP)HOLDING — Tra Mi Dinh

Shortcuts to Familiar Places — James Batchelor

Season Two
16 August—16 September

Sense of Place — Janice Florence & Weave Movement Theatre

Memories from Suspended Places — Georgia Rudd & Riyo Tulus Pernando

The real time it takes… — Rosalind Crisp

A Book of Hours — Gerard Van Dyck, Sal Cooper & Kate Neal

Season Three (Melbourne Fringe)
4—14 October

TOUCH by Deepa Mani & Sheena Chundee

CRECHE by Oliver Savariego

LUSH by gemma+molly

The Unlearning by Adrien Tucker

Why Runs The Abhisarika? by Priyanka Jain

Oh Sheila by Ashley Goh, Beverley Li & Tiffany Nung

object-shun by Erin O’Rourke

SERMON — Rhys Ryan

Tits Out by Shelley O’Meara

2022

Season One
3 March—14 May

Judy and Me — Rachael Wisby

CASTILLO — Prue Lang with Jana Castillo

BeatStorm — Chris Chua

Sky Blue Mythic — Angela Goh

Take Five or More #15 — Andrew Morrish

Bridge — Ngioka Bunda-Heath

Passing — Isabelle Beauverd

We Are Here — Jennifer Ma & Collaborators

Siren Dance — Lilian Steiner

Yield to Resistance at Dancehouse — Sandra Parker

Zodiacs Ball: Taurus Ball — House of Dévine

Season Two
20 August—10 September

Zodiacs Ball: LEO SZN — House of Dévine

Explicit Contents — Rhiannon Newton

Yinarr — Amelia Jean O’Leary

DOUBLE DOUBLE — Deanne Butterworth, Jo Lloyd, Tina Havelock Stevens and Evelyn Ida Morris

Weathering — Emily Bowman and Joey Lehrer [ two for now ]

Pictures & Ghosts — Arabella Frahn-Starkie

Season Three (Fringe)
5—15 October

Melbourne Fringe Festival

2021

Season One
11—28 March

Sangam Commissions Program One

Sangam Commissions Program Two

MOTH — Aimee Schollum

Bodylex — Rhys Ryan

Memoria del Cuerpo Vivo — Gabriela Green Olea & Oscar Poncell

Here we are — Such n Such

Colour-Fool — Yumi Umiumare and ButohOUT! Ensemble

Season Two
21 April—1 May

100 Haikus — Trevor Santos

Slow Calm Drama — Deanne Butterworth

That Which Was Once Familiar — Zoë Bastin

Season Three
August—September

Postponed due to COVID-19

Season Four (Fringe)
October

Melbourne Fringe Festival

Season Five (Finalé)
November—December

Finalé

2020

Submerge — Emerging Choreographers Program

2019

Dancing Qweens — James Welsby

Solos — Cindy Van Acker

Trophy — Rudi van der Merwe

Genetrix — Victoria Chiu, Jozsef Trefeli, Rudi Van Der Merwe

Sun Trip — Perrine Valli & The Sunfast

Jinx 103 — József Trefeli & Gábor Varga

Where We Stand — Isabella Whāwhai Waru