BORO

<p dir="ltr">A choreographic and interdisciplinary work that draws up Japanese folklore and storytelling, mask work, rhythm and dance. <i>BORO </i>explores the complexities and myriad facets of identity - <i>How do we define ourselves in the context of others and outside of it? How does our image of identity align with or differ from how we are perceived? </i>We use playful and mercurial forest creatures to embody evolving traits and unpredictability in the face of stereotypes, serving as portals to different sides of the self.</p><p dir="ltr"><i>BORO </i>was commissioned as part of 'Alter Kinetic' is a season of three new contemporary dance works featuring graduating VCA 2022 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) and Bachelor of Fine Arts (Design and Production) students: Guest Choreographer Lucy Guerin’s <i>Splinter Group</i>; Hutchinson First Nations Fellow, Ngioka Bunda-Heath’s <i>Footprints</i> and Resident Choreographer Julie Ann Minaai’s <i>BORO</i>. In this triple bill, we draw attention to the kinetic as primary to how we shape-shift through life stages and states of emergence. Delving into distinct worlds of the choreographic imagination, these works explore group synergy, rhythmic complicity, falling, shape-shifting and the traces we leave behind. They speak through the corporeal and ancestral imagination to inscribe mutable and changing worlds within a condition of continuous dancing.</p>