Every Step by Rawcus
About this Event
This is a performance about how identity is choreographed:
A colour we gravitate toward.
A song we return to.
A favourite t-shirt worn thin.
These everyday choices, intimate and untamed, shape how we move through the world and how the world reads us in return. Every Step is a parade of textures, gestures, and preferences. A celebration of movement and perception. A joyful assertion of access and pride. This new work is choreographed and performed by Rawcus Ensemble Artist Ryan New, in collaboration with Swann Biguet and Nilgun Guven. Every Step invites audiences to witness identity in motion and to revel in the simple stubborn things that make us who we are.
Image Credit: Jack Zapsalis
BIOS
RYAN NEW is a performer, contemporary dancer, tai chi practitioner and landscape innovator. He made his debut in Rawcus in mid 2008 during his time as a performing facilitator at Family Dog Theatre. His roles in Rawcus include Small Odysseys, Another Lament, Song for a Weary Throat, Here We Are Amongst You, and Interior. He led a group of primary schoolers for a Newham project in 2012. He was also a carrier in 2009’s walk of the Chinese Year of the Dragon at Moomba City of Melbourne. Ryan won the Tropfest award for best actor in a short film Comican’t. In 2021 he collaborated with choreographer Phillip Adams on the new work- SICK.
RAWCUS is an award-winning and critically acclaimed long-term ensemble of artists with diverse minds, bodies, and imaginations. Rawcus devises new work that expresses the imaginative world of the Ensemble. Drawing on dance, theatre and visual art disciplines, the work is crafted with a precision that supports the performers, but allows space for their inherent sense of anarchy. Rawcus’ performance aesthetic is characterised by a marriage of intense physicality, arresting visual imagery and devised text.
For 25 years, Rawcus’ work has featured as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival, Dance Massive, Next Wave, Melbourne Fringe and others. Rawcus is known for adventurous, unexpected and highly successful collaborations. The company has worked with artists and companies including the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, The Invenio Singers, Fast Fashun, and Restless Dance. In addition to work in the theatre, Rawcus has created photo exhibitions, community gatherings, short films, visual artworks, interactive public performance, and projection art.
Rawcus has been nominated for and won numerous awards including a 2019 Helpmann Award Nomination for Best Production for Song for a Weary Throat. Most recently the company was awarded a Greenroom Award for Outstanding Production/Independent Theatre for the new work Interior (2024).
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