Top of page
Global Site Navigation
Local Section Navigation
You are here: Main Content

In Your God celebrates LINK’s 20 years of dance

Monday, 11 April 2022

Tags:
  • In Your God at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.

    In Your God will be performed by the LINK Dance Company

Related Contents

To celebrate LINK Dance Company’s 20th anniversary year, Artistic Director Michael Whaites is taking his young dancers to the State Theatre Centre at the end of April to perform In Your God, a four-night season of startlingly original contemporary dance.

In Your God will be performed in Rehearsal Room 1 at the State Theatre Centre from Wednesday, 27 to Friday, 29 April at 7.30pm, with a 6.00pm performance on Saturday, 30 April.

This double bill of lip-synching, outrageous behaviour and exquisite dancing features two exciting new works by Whaites and James Welsby set to original music by WAAPA Music graduate Peter McAvan.

The lip-synching comes courtesy of James Welsby’s piece, Ultimate Form.

“Lip synching is a choreographic tool because of its special mode of operating as both verbal and physical communication,” explains the multi-faceted arts practitioner, whose previous experience as a drag queen informs the way popular culture is fed through the choreographic process.

Since 2008, Welsby has been a performer, director and choreographer of contemporary dance, drag and cabaret. In 2015 he founded the award-winning cabaret company Yummy, and since then has produced and directed eight full-length productions which have toured to festivals both here in Australia and overseas.

“Ultimate Form will explore heightened states of existing, our most fully realised versions of ourselves, and self-actualisation as a spiritual imperative.”

Whaites’ new work for In Your God is also about spirituality, with a focus on finding one’s spiritual self in nature. Whaites describes how the choreographic process started with the question, “Who do you look up to?”, and expanded to explore the energy and spirits of gods and goddesses in dance.

“The work has focussed on bringing the past into the present, trying to reimagine something from another time,” says Whaites, whose tenure at LINK makes him one of Australia’s longest-serving artistic directors.

In Your God, performed by the talented young dancers of LINK Dance Company, promises a fun, fabulous evening of cutting-edge contemporary dance, full of bold choreographic choices and passionate dancing – don’t miss it!

For all venue and performance details, please visit the In Your God performance web page.

Share

Skip to top of page