Echo

Featuring two new creations by Queensland-based makers, Katina Olsen and Lauren Graham, Echo features the 27 dancers of Australasian Dance Collective’s Youth Ensemble.

The live dance performances sit side by side with powerful and extraordinary film works created by the Youth Ensemble members.

A proud Wakka Wakka Kombumerri woman, Olsen’s choreographic highlights include Mother’s Cry for Sydney Dance Company’s New Breed 2018, movement direction for the play Sunshine Super Girl (Sydney Festival 2021), the ABC series Cleverman 2 and the Malthouse production Walking into the Bigness.

With a sombre layer of honesty and simplistic beauty, her creation for Echo is drenched in subtle gestures of communication and connections that draw us to our land and humanity.

Graham is a QUT Vice Chancellor’s Scholarship recipient, and has worked with many artists including Natalie Weir, Daniel Riley and Craig Barry and appeared in Nerida Matthaei’s regional tour of Angel-Monster, collaborating in developments of Liesel Zink’s The Stance and Circa’s Leviathan.

With an undercurrent of hypnotic drive, her Echo piece pulses to intrude on its own intricate hum.

Echo is a key platform in ADC’s commitment to actively developing and inspiring the next generation of dancers and dance makers. It is a chance to see the art of the future, right now as the creative leaders of tomorrow showcase what an exciting and vibrant future awaits.