Contemporary dance en masse

"Inventories of Bodies in Movement" will see 70 performers from West Australian companies Co3 Youth, DADAA, Tracksuit and WAAPA’s LINK Dance Company come together to transform the Fremantle Arts Centre's South Lawn into a sea of synchronised movement as each performer explores their own ideas of "body" in a mass contemporary dance display.

Choreographed by French artist Christine Fricker, "Inventories of Bodies in Movement" (IBM) was originally performed in Marseille and has subsequently travelled to nine cities around the world with each production tackling a different theme.

"'Inventories of Bodies in Movement' is an interactive dance project that speaks to the identity of one’s self and to the cultural and social constructions that define how a universal subject (i.e., the body) is perceived in our modern, multi-cultural society," says Fricker. Through the creation of this collaborative choreographic project I will bring experienced dancers and non dancers together in the performance of a new choreographic work. Inventories of Bodies in Movements is a humanist project that focuses on the values and concerns between people of different backgrounds, cultural groups, and experiences in life, and the similarities and differences in their perceptions of the body."

For its Australian premiere, IBM looks at the ideas of islands, the environment and isolation as its inspiration. 

Performances take place October 5

Tickets are $10 and available from the Fremantle Arts Centre website or (61 8) 9432 9555.at 4.30pm and 5.30pm, with an artist talk and interview with Christine Fricker at 5pm.