Review: Stellar Project

Stellar Project is a premier dance work by Prue Lang, it is an hour long contemporary dance piece, with 5 performers.

It was presented in several parts, first was a dimly lit gentle dance piece, then the lights came up and the dances congratulated each other saying good job etc etc, like they had just finished a improve or something in a dance class, they then took turns performing solo dances and then the other people had to guess what they were doing, whoever guesses correctly got to do a solo dance.

There were several other parts, some of which I have forgotten, because at times I found myself drifting off, it may have been because the show was on quite late at night and it was very hot which in combination made me feel very tired, but overall I did have a nice time, the show was very gentle, soothing and sweet.

My favorite part was when the dancers formed a solar system, one person was in the middle representing a star, the others orbited the star and offered a little dance wiggle thing to the star, if the dance wiggle was correct the dances representing planets got to move closer to the sun and orbit faster, the goal was to become as close to the sun as possible, this section of the show was particular pleasing to watch.

This work as re-occurring images and themes about the cosmos, which was interesting because the aesthetic of the show was nothing like ‘sci-fi’ I really enjoyed the juxtaposition between the two.

The costumes were lovely, mainly block colours and very sporty, and causal. The lighting design and sound design was also very lovely, very simple and sweet.

Stellar Project is part of Dance Massive a bi-annual dance festival, there are multiple works showing in multiple venues across Melbourne, the festival is on now and goes until March 26th. Stella Project is showing at Dance House in Carlton until the 21st of March.

Written by Finley Fletcher

Photo by Gregory Lorenzutti

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