— Left out to dry

PEDAL traces artistic swimming’s lineage, inheriting its aesthetic, physical, and performative textures. As a quartet assuming tetrapod status, the dancers negotiate an ever-contracting choreographic space. In this shrinkage, gesture transforms. Beckoning becomes something other than itself.

A timepiece in another time. A form once submerged, now extracted. Like the whale, the dance inherits a terrestrial ancestor—a structure it has abandoned. Bodies, drenched and heavy, are lifted, hurled, and finally expelled; the puddle shrinks steadily beneath them. Divergence is both method and engine.

Dance as transmogrification.

Choreographers/Performers Flynn Dakis, Jesper Harrison, Sarah Ceraso, & Toni Stathopoulos

Sound Design Angie Collins and Jesper Harrison

Costume Design Andrew Treloar

PEDAL has been supported by the University of Melbourne Student Union and the MPavillion Participatory Arts Award.