Recently landed: In Orbit
Gracia’s written response to Program A of ORBIT, created by three sister organisations, Dancehouse (Victoria), Australian Dance Theatre (South Australia), and Sydney Dance Company (New South Wales), especially for Fjord Review.
Subscribe to and support Fjord Review.
To travel around, like the Earth in its recurrent, elliptical revolution around the sun, is no mean feat. Touring is a complicated, lengthy and costly affair. ORBIT, created by three sister organisations, Dancehouse (Victoria), Australian Dance Theatre (South Australia), and Sydney Dance Company (New South Wales) and supported by Creative Australia, is a the new touring program devised to bring independent dance to audiences across the country. The first edition features four works over two parts, which celebrate Australia’s local independent choreographers.
Program A finds me hopping on the circuit with proud Githabul, Migunberri, Yumbeh woman, Keia McGrady’s regeneration after cultural burning, Charcoal, and Jo Lloyd’s rewriting of tragedy, Agitato, back-to-back at Sylvia Staehli Theatre, Dancehouse, Melbourne. Charcoal premiered as part of the Junction Arts Festival, at the Annexe Theatre, Lutruwita/Tasmania, in 2024, and Agitato premiered last year at Dancehouse, and having seen neither work before, I am here for the journey in all its time expansion and brilliance. I am ready to look into the marks we leave behind.
●
10th of November, 2026
Rebecca Jensen, Jo Lloyd, Louie Wisby, Thomas Woodman in Llyod's Agitato (image credit: Gregory Lorenzutti)
