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This special season of Delving into Dance is presented in partnership with the Australian Ballet. featuring interviews from Alice Topp, Dalisa pigram, Antony Hamilton and Daniel Riley.

DanceX Season

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DanceX Season |

DanceX is a three-part festival conceived and curated by The Australian Ballet’s Artistic Director David Hallberg that will showcase the depth, range and diversity of the nation’s dance community. Thrilling audiences with brand new commissions, Australian premieres and excerpts from some of the most popular dance works of the last year, DanceX is an unmissable experience for culture-lovers of all kinds.

DanceX includes works from: The Australian Ballet, Australian Dance Theatre, Bangarra Dance Theatre, Chunky Move, Karul Projects, Lucy Guerin Inc, Marrugeku, Queensland Ballet, and Sydney Dance Company. These nine companies will perform the repertoire of their choice in 12 shows over three parts, gathering at Arts Centre Melbourne's Playhouse theatre. As well as initiating and presenting DanceX, The Australian Ballet has commissioned two companies, Chunky Move and Lucy Guerin Inc, to create brand new works.

DANCEX is TAKING PLACE IN MELBOURNE,FROM 20 OCTOBER – 1 NOVEMBER 2022.

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THE INTERVIEWS

Dalisa Pigram

‘We value everyone equally, but you know, of course each person has a role to play in the team that's been created, but no one is, you know, less valuable than another.’

Daniel Riley

‘My daughter Billie, she was in rehearsal today. My son Archie grew up the first two or three years of his life, like, on tour with me when I was with Bangarra Dance Theatre and just being in the artistic environment and being surrounded by people is such a beautiful gift, I think, that I can give to them as well.’

Antony Hamilton

‘When I'm making dance and when I think about choreography or art, I often relate my early childhood experiences to the things that I make now as well.’

Alice Topp

‘I guess for a lot of people, ballet is still very much an evolving, developing language. I think people think it was probably stuck in a time and hasn't progressed. But modern ballet is very challenging and arresting and it's finding new ways of working with an old structure.’

‘I guess for a lot of people, ballet is still very much an evolving, developing language. I think people, think it was probably stuck in a time and hasn't progressed. But modern ballet is very challenging and arresting and it's finding new ways of working with an old structure. I think people probably have an idea of what they think it is and probably aren't as open to understanding that like any art form, like painting, like writing, we are a living, breathing language, and that vocabulary is constantly developing.’