INTERVIEW super interested in form and unpacking it, but on the other hand want to make work that touches people emotionally. Even though these are quite different, I think they’re both about connection, which is what inspires me to make work. In this work I’m driven by a desire to connect with my history, where I come from, which I know very little about. I’m inspired by things I don’t know, and things that matter, which is how I’ve come to pursue this idea. What’s your favorite non-dance activity or hobby? B: I'm going to start DJing next month and it will become my favourite non-dance activity. I: I'm a bit of a random tinkerer, outside of dance I'm heavily involved with anything tech. Photography and videography really interest me, I do a lot of video documenting of my friends works and working on ideas of a short dance film. C: Cooking and reading. Funnily enough, cooking has made it into this dance work, and reading has been a huge part of the creative process, so I’ve in a way managed to turn them into dance activites. Where do you see yourself in 10 years? Where do you see dance in 10 years? B: I see myself in Ibiza, DJing at some fab party with Paris Hilton. I'm not sure where I see dance, I’m sure it will still function as it is today but perhaps we will replace ballerinas with robots or something. I: I'm unsure of where I see myself in 10 years but hopefully my body is still active enough for me to still be on stage performing. If not, then choreography is definitely where I would to focus my attention. Dance is always evolving and depending on what country in the world you are in there are certain "flavours". With the fast evolution of technology it opens up new ways of creating and collaborating with different media. There are works now involving Virtual Reality technology and it's only been made popular for a couple of years. So it's very exciting to see how future choreographers would include new and always changing technology in their works. C: I see myself making work in 10 years, I hope that’s still the case. I’m also passionate about making dance available to more people, so education and advocacy both appear strongly in my future I think. I like to think that dance will buck the trends of increasing technology and automation, that people will realise how important our bodies are and rather than replacing them we embrace them more, and that more people are dancing, and that dance as an artform becomes more about the body, more inclusive, more diverse, and that it embraces people physically, as participants in it rather than spectators of it. FORM Dance Projects and Riverside Theatres present COMMON ANOMALIES Common Anomalies is a triple bill of solo dances by young artists, vastly different in style, exploring their cultural identities. Solos interconnect breakdance, contemporary techniques, vogue, modern dance and folklore in dynamic and challenging vignettes. These works are cross-cultural, personal endeavours that capture a unique snapshot of a world of diverse and interconnected people, multiethnic and globalised. Thursday 2 November at 8pm Friday 3 November at 12.30pm (schools performance) & 8pm Saturday 4 November at 8pm Adults $35 Concession $28 Transaction fees apply – see page 32 for details LEARN MORE FORM DANCE PROJECTS AND RIVERSIDE THEATRES: COMMON ANOMALIES 9