Choreographer: Kyall Shanks and 2023 Yellow Wheel dancers
Dancers: Alice Atkinson, Scarlet Boyack, Leyla Boz, Mia Canton, Alyse Canton, Charli Cantoni-Bud, Jett Chudleigh, April Croydon, Siobhan Dockray, Reuben Macdougall Di Manno, Toby McKnight, Sofie Nielsen, Taylor Seymour, Tamsyn Sollier-Smith, Cassidy Thomson, Chris Wade, Jasmine Weisberg
Meet-Up 2023
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Photography by Lorna Sim
July 7-9
Workshops and classes
July 10
The Gather performance
The Dancing Fever of 1518
Part of the Meet-Up 2023 performance Gather.
“Each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard
Some do it with a bitter look
Some with a flattering word
The coward does it with a kiss
The brave man with a sword
Some kill their love when they are young
Some when they are old”
“Remixed disco and excerpts from Oscar Wilde’s The Ballad of Reading Gaol intone across Kyall Shanks and Yellow Wheel’s collaboration on The Dancing Fever of 1518, a flamboyant celebration of sombre disco diversity. This Melbourne company’s mini-extravaganza had 17 dancers, character roles, multiple costume changes and flashes of 80s/90s pop references. It pushed the dancers’ technique and endurance and had the audience tapping their toes, while somehow making sense of the juxtaposition of dour poetry and disco to highlight tolerance of social difference.”
“The final work on the program, and certainly a highlight of the evening, was performed by seventeen dancers from Yellow Wheel in Melbourne, who offered a cleverly constructed abstract work entitled The Dancing Fever of 1518”
Participants spent 3 days working to deepen their understanding of Jacqui’s practice and develop exercises to communicate about and within the lettuce, the book, and the lighting desk. Generously hosted by QL2 dance, having this time and space allowed for robust discussions (and disagreements) about brains and bodies. Jacqui and Reuben also took part in a workshop presented by Gabrielle Nankiville and Harrison Elliot from the Australasian Dance Collective, and were very fortunate to be invited to the dress rehearsal of the company’s work Lucie in the Sky.
