Over the past two years, Australasian Dance Collective has borne the brunt of natural disasters particularly acutely. COVID forced the cancellation of the inaugural season of THREE just days before opening night. The triple bill’s second iteration in March this year made it through one dress rehearsal only for flooding to postpone its premiere. While the first season had to wait another year to debut, version 2.0 is here after “only” four months, thanks to a change of venue.

Presenting an all-Australian, choreographic line-up to commissioned ambient compositions, this program is stylistically less diverse than the previous one, both in terms of movement and sound. The three pieces were created in conjunction with the dancers and come under an umbrella of introspection.

Limbic by Cass Mortimer Eipper © David Kelly

Cass Mortimer Eipper’s Limbic is presented in tandem with his parallel short film Liminal, which was created on ADC and presented last year. Screening in the foyer, Liminal also features sound by Alyxandra Dennison and Zoe Griffith’s costumes.

In case you were wondering, the limbic system comprises our brain structures concerned with emotion and motivation, while liminal relates to a sensory threshold.

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