v.3 (The Australian Ballet for FRAME Biennial)

Dance Becomes Her: a performance-lecture

The dancing body is not one that grows solo. It feeds off those around it, consciously and subconsciously, in a pinpoint moment in time and across expanded duration. Both through and without language, learnings accumulate within the body, within the spaces it occupies and in the archive of memory.
... and the dancing body is a tool acquired by Dance itself. Dance wears us, like a costume.

Dance Becomes Her is a performance-lecture that addresses the ways that dance and embodied knowledge is shared between and archived within bodies across time. It articulates thoughts on this topic through simultaneous dancing and speaking. The text that is spoken is predetermined and carefully crafted, while the dancing is largely improvised, framed by some key predetermined structural choices.

In this performance lecture, language and movement collide and mix and slip past each other in ways that help to articulate and demonstrate the subject, in ways that either form operating alone cannot.

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Concept, Writing and Performance: Lilian Steiner

Previous iterations:
- HERE:2025 Festival, Vitlycke Performing Arts Centre, Tanumshede Sweden (13 September, 2025)
- One Dance Festival, Plovdiv Bulgaria (24 May, 2025)
- The Sophia Club, ‘The Meaning of Time’ at Brunswick Ballroom, Melbourne Australia (5 May, 2023)
- The Australian Ballet, afternoon of showings for FRAME Biennial, Melbourne Australia (19 March, 2022)
- Cantos 1. at Collingwood House, Melbourne Australia (11 March, 2023)
- for +CONCEPTS, presented by Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne Australia (25 June, 2022)