Stephanie Lake’s epic work Colossus kicked her career into another gear.
The Australian choreographer is now in hot demand internationally. What’s more, as well as creating contemporary dance for her own company, ballet companies are beginning to call.
Deborah Jones talks to Lake and her partner and regular collaborator, audio-visual artist Robin Fox, about how it feels to have arrived.
It’s a good thing Stephanie Lake didn’t listen to those well-meaning people who said she should think small. “That’s the advice you get. Make a solo. Make a duo. Make something that can tour really easily that fits into a suitcase. I thought, bloody hell, that’s not what I want to do. I want to do the opposite.”
The opposite was Colossus, a gargantuan work for 50 dancers, give or take, that premiered in 2018 and proved to be a watershed for Lake. Audiences loved it, festivals wanted it. It took off. If you’d been in Taipei in April or at Germany’s Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen in May you could have seen it.
Lake has now, as she puts it,...
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