Melbourne Fringe Festival
Dancehouse is the Dance Hub of the Melbourne Fringe. Since 2015, Dancehouse has supported more than 50 Fringe shows and been home to some of the Festival’s Best Dance award winners including: Gemma+Molly (2023), Isabelle Beauverd (2019), Aimee Schollum (2018) and Siobhan McKenna (2017).
Read more about our Melbourne Fringe programs below.
Dancehouse 2024 Melbourne Fringe Program
2—19 October 2024
The Solos — Weave Movement Theatre
I.D. — Stephanie Sorn Dixon & L2R
TOMATO — CHOU Kuan Jou
Fertile Ground — Ashleigh Musk & Michael Smith
VOW(d): CRATE WOMEN — Catherine Magill
Cosmos — Callum Mooney
Grim Grinning Ghosts — Alix Kuijpers
two thread — Karlia & Danni
Superposition — Gabriel Sinclair & Jazmyn Carter
The Bloom — Jessie McCall
Dancehouse 2023 Melbourne Fringe Program
4—14 October 2023
TOUCH — Deepa Mani & Sheena Chundee
CRECHE — Oliver Savariego
LUSH — gemma+molly
The Unlearning — Adrien Tucker
Why Runs The Abhisarika? — Priyanka Jain
Oh Sheila — Ashley Goh, Beverley Li & Tiffany Nung
object-shun — Erin O’Rourke
SERMON — Rhys Ryan
Tits Out — Shelley O’Meara
Dancehouse 2022 Melbourne Fringe Program
5—15 October 2022
Saltbush — Insite Arts
Withhold — Inplay Projects
No Former Performer Has Performed this Performance Before #7 — Born in a Taxi
Dancehouse 2021 Melbourne Fringe Program
7—17 October 2021
Star Spangled Banter — Jonathan Homsey
The following works were also selected to present at Dancehouse for the 2021 Melbourne Fringe but were then transferred to Seasons in 2022:
Passing — Isabelle Beauverd
Siren Dance — Lilian Steiner
Lucha Bridge, Silent Shift — Ngioka Bunda-Heath
Dancehouse 2020 Melbourne Fringe Program
Houseparty – Curated by Dancehouse
Now Pieces – For Now – Curated by Kevin Jeynes and Paea Leach
Shift – Claire Marshall
Alien Intimacy – James Batchelor and Zander Porter
The following works were also selected to present at Dancehouse for the 2020 Melbourne Fringe but were then transferred to Seasons in 2021:
Bodylex – Rhys Ryan
Memoria del Cuerpo Vivo – Gabriela Green Olea and Oscar Poncell
Moth – Aimee Schollum
Here We Are – Such n Such
Colour-Fool – Yumi Umiumare and ButohOUT! Ensemblre
100 Haikus – Trevor Santos
Dancehouse 2019 Melbourne Fringe Program
The Right – Katrina Rank
Home(s) – Jennifer Ma
Surge – Isabelle Beauverde
But Why – Austinmer Dance Theatre
Seeing Red – Ashley Dougan
A Study of Being – Kayla Douglas
Pink Matter – Beth Raywood Cross, Stella Webster & Diane Pereira
The Voices of Joan of Arc – Janie Gibson
Dancehouse 2018 Melbourne Fringe Program
Sonos – Aimee Schollum
Nonsensical – Joel Fenton
48 Points (make a boy dance) – Paul Jackson
Colour Correction – Peas and Rice
Whiplash – Scott Wings
Connect – Austinmer Dance Theatre
Unconscious Volcanoes – Rachel Huf and Tahlia Klugman
Dancehouse 2017 Melbourne Fringe Program
Blindful – Abbie Madden
Contact – Jack Riley
Utterance – Siobhan McKenna
Ophelia’s Inner Monologue – Aridhi Anderson
The Island – Sete Tele
Gamelan and The Cirebon Mask: A Dance Cycle – Putra Panji Asmara
Dancehouse 2016 Melbourne Fringe Program
ISM – Paul Jesseph Base Hickman
Dancing with Dark Goddesses – Irina Kuzminsky
It’s Getting Awkward – Sarah Chaffey, Scott Elstermann and Ezgi Gungor – Awkward Connections Double Bill
How to Con-nect – Rikki Bremner – Awkward Connections Double Bill
Low Expectations – Samantha Crameri-Miller – Brainchild Double Bill
Principle of Causation – Cameron Lansdown-Goodmand and dancers – Brainchild Double Bill
Dancehouse 2015 Melbourne Fringe Program
Dear Fred – Kathleen Szalay – Double Bill 1
How Humans Can Fly – Suze Smith – Double Bill 1
Into the Maze – Ashlee Barton – Double Bill 2
Urban Rapture – Nebahat Erpolat – Double Bill 2
Wilson – Sarah Ronnie Bruce – Double Bill 3
everything’s coming up roses – Eve Newton-Johnson – Double Bill 3