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Dancehouse is on Wurundjeri Country. We offer our respects to the Wurundjeri woi-wurrung people — and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people — who continue to dance on Country, and have done, for thousands of generations. Always was and always will be Aboriginal land.

Now Pieces #5

Amaara Raheem

Performance Now Pieces
'300 Microfictions', Amaara Raheem, Blindside solo residency (2020). Photo by Nicholas James Archer.
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'300 Microfictions', Amaara Raheem, Blindside solo residency (2020). Photo by Nicholas James Archer.
26 September 2021
6:30—7:30pm

Sylvia Staehli Theatre, Dancehouse

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Due to COVID-19, this event has been cancelled.

Now Pieces is a monthly platform for improvised performance that builds on the lineage of Cecil St Studio, a dance studio in Melbourne for 21 years that is now earmarked for demolition, to build apartments. Now Pieces continues a long standing disciplined exploration of embodied performance practice that leads to crafted, spontaneous and artful communication made on-the-go. This program invites a range of intergenerational practitioners who — in one way or another — prioritise movement to incorporate body, sound, vocalisation, memory, image and energy, responding to each passing moment in relation to the space where they are dancing in relation to the audience. Now Pieces 2021 curates curators as well as performers, opening up improvisation as a relevant, urgent, poetic transdisciplinary practice that reflects back patterns and possibilities for freedom, and flight.

Now Pieces (September) foregrounds the duet form. In addition, two very special solos expand the provocation, ‘of two minds’.

Curator: Amaara Raheem
Performers: Rebecca Jensen & Claire Leske (duet); Emily Bowman & Joey Lehrer (duet); Carol Brown & Russell Scoones (duet); Jennifer Ma & David Prakash (duet); Raina Peterson & Marco Cher-Gibard (duet); Peter Trotman (solo); Geoffrey Watson (solo); Ros Crisp (solo)
Creative Correspondent: Rajith Savanadasa

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Amaara Raheem is a shape-shifter, an unspectacular dancer, permaculture enthusiast, occasional writer and amateur basket weaver. Dancing came about through working in theatre, and for her language has always been part of her practice of movement. Amaara’s improvisations–in dance and life–are shaped by her history of migration. She’s lived in three continents, and now resides part-time in Naarm/Melbourne and part-time in rural Victoria. She’s completing a practice-based PhD at the School of Architecture and Urban Design RMIT University.

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