STRUT Dance offers Coalescing Towards in this year's Perth Festival, a feast of hypnotic movement delivered in idiosyncratic style by a stellar cast of independent dancers.
Review: Slow Burn, Together, choreographed by Emma Fishwick. Emma Fishwick and Performing Lines for Perth Festival.
It goes against the very core of Slow Burn, Together to respond to it so quickly in print. In the program, choreographer Emma Fishwick quotes art historian Ernst Gombrich: “the reading of a picture needs a very long time.”
Slow Burn, Together encourages a dream-like reflection on our relationship with time, especially history and progress, how it shapes us, how we work with it and against it.
Moving through the cavernous stage of Perth’s Her Majesty’s Theatre on foot, on wheels, on their knees, on a swing an ensemble of 15 women create an ever-changing series of pictures. Evoking pathways to the past or into an unknown future, the dancers shift between movement and stillness, horizontal and vertical, witnessing and being witnessed.