Emptying the BucKET
Recipient of Best Dance Award 2016 Melbourne Fringe Festival.
An interdisciplinary dance work on a meditation on love, Emptying the Bucket combines live sound, light and dance in order to examine how and why we feel attraction, affection, love, and whether the intoxicating feeling ever truly dies. This work first premiered to high critical acclaim in Berlin Germany and performed in festivals in Germany and Australia. It was awarded ‘Best Dance’ at the Melbourne Fringe Festival, Australia 2016.What people are saying about Emptying the Bucket
“Emptying The Bucket is a daring, interdisciplinary, live art dance work. It is a multi-layered dance piece that explores the questions around how we see and feel love in our contemporary society and how one can express these connections and ideas through live-art and dance.”
“The piece won the Fringe Award for Best Dance, and it’s clearly a work of great complexity and depth, with multiple layers and intersecting patterns. There is confusion in the restless shuffling of bodies and the energetic surges, and there’s plenty of theatricality, but there is also the rigorism of a choreographer who wants every shape to be just so.
Perhaps what we’re seeing is a performance which empties all the false sentiments and images of romance and leaves us with a bare theatre and separately thrashing bodies. As the abbess Nyodai wrote: “No more water in the bucket; / No more moon in the water.”
