Pointe | Caves House | Hush
Pointe
Dancing on the knife’s edge
Floeur Alder turns to her family to help her heal from the trauma of a random act of violence by a stranger on the streets of Perth. The brutal knife attack becomes a turning point in her life. Life and Art collide. Her parents are Lucette Aldous and Alan Alder, former stars of The Royal Ballet and principal dancers with The Australian Ballet. Floeur immerses herself in a creative dance journey taking her to the old childhood haunts and an extended family of ballet celebrities, including Rudolf Nureyev, Margot Fonteyn, David McAllister, Dame Monica Mason, Dame Gillian Lynne and Robert Bestonso former star of The Paris Opera, embracing the core themes of ballet; love, loss, violence and tragedy and how they intersect in her family’s lives.
Caves House
Place of Love
An epic movie musical, taking elements from documentary film to piece together over a century of stories, into a cohesive piece of storytelling, Cave House – Place of Love is a true love letter about one of the South West’s most beloved landmarks. Caves House has a special resonance in our hearts beyond its’ geographical location. Beside the Majestic Caves House Hotel, lies Ngilgi cave, where for over one hundred years people have come to visit and stay at a house built right outside, overlooking the vast magnitude of the Indian Ocean at Yallingup. The cave itself is our hero and narrator, recalling the century of stories and characters he has witnessed, all in an attempt to understand the truth of what love truly is.
Hush
an Arctic Adventure
Hush is a new dance/film work to be born out of an arts/science residency in the Arctic Circle, exploring themes of loneliness, isolation and the environment. Many people experience profound loneliness and depression when they are surrounded by people in urban environments but when alone in nature and remote landscapes there is a deep connection. Hush draws on the dark Hans Christian-Andersen fairytale, The Little Match Girl who dies in the cold trying to sell her matches. As she strikes her last matches for warmth she sees visions in the flames. Our lead character Celia is mute – her only means of expression is dance. In her quest to connect and communicate she moves through remote landscapes and urban environments finding the beauty of small moments and things.
Hush is supported by Creative Partnerships Australia through the Australian Cultural Fund and MATCH Lab.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.