For all you club kids out there who think you know all there is to know about dance, think again. Maybe it’s time to expand your horizons a bit and see another kind of dance – yes, dance theatre.

As part of the Fringe Festival there’s a new dance work called Object which is choreographed and directed by local community dance and theatre director Gerard Veltre.

Composer, Sasha Stella, has created an original 50-minute musical score for the production made entirely of samples taken from two commonly separate worlds. Classical concertos have been mixed with well-known dance music tracks. Within 30 seconds you may have listened to 5 different pieces of music seamlessly spliced together and mixed to create a new style of music. It is both his method of sampling and the samples themselves, which make for a whole new listening genre.

According to the press pack, “Object! creates art out of advertising – subverting the shadows of ourselves as they exist in the media and popculture, to create new imagery, sounds and choreography. The work is loosely based around the concepts discussed in Plato’s Cave.

Director, Gerard Veltre, said “We began making choreography from images found in magazine advertising. The dance style is a blend of everything we know: hip hop, breakdance, contemporary dance and physical theatre.”

You can catch Object! At Victoria Uni. Footscray, Nicholson Campus Theatre each night at 8pm from tomorrow til Saturday 29 September.

Mel.MAP ref. 2S F11
(signs posted outside the building)

Bookings: 9689 5677
Or Fringe: 9482 7545