Fickle Juice

Deepa P Mani is a Naarm / Melbourne- based Performing & Teaching artist with over 30 years’ experience in both Classical Bharathanatyam & Contemporary styles. An accomplished performer, dance theatre producer and owner of Chandralaya School of Dance, she believes passionately in the power of traditional dance to connect people with their heritage, sense of self and inner creativity. Aside from being Artistic Director, Deepa...

Throughout 2022 your hosts engaged in Dancehouse’s Emerging Choreographers Program (ECP). This live artist talk from the 2022 ECP "take over" season, TAKE 22  introduces artists Derrick Duan, Shyama Sasidharan and Jacqui Maida.

ECP is a year-long capacity building and professional development initiative offering young choreographers from diverse cultural and training backgrounds support to develop the skills requ...

Hayley Does is an emerging contemporary dance artist based in Naarm (Melbourne)/Wadawarrung Country (Surf Coast). A Victorian College of the Arts (dance) graduate, Does' choreographic practice harnesses duration and repetition through live multi-medium improvisational collaborations to investigate the body's relationship to places we inhabit. They explore presentation and documentation of 'regenerative performance&ap...

Shelley O’Meara is a Melbourne based video artist, animator and dancer. Having recently completed their Honours degree in Animation at the VCA, Shelley’s work combines dance, projected animation and intricate video layering techniques to develop highly immersive works on and off the screen. Concerned with power, autonomy and the politicisation of bodies, movement is Shelley’s primary storytelling tool. In 2019 they began training i...

Priya Srinivasan has a dual career as an artist and scholar committed to questions of decolonisation and interdisciplinary postcolonial feminist performance.  Her work brings together live bodily performance with visual art, interactive multimedia and digital technology to think about archives of the body, migration, and female labour. Her work has also been presented in diverse settings such as universities, museums, galleries and...