Tempo Dance Festival presents

Natural Basic

The natural basic waltz step is a three-part clockwise movement. Originating in 16th-century peasant dances, it has evolved through countless forms. In Natural Basic, this cadence is a point of departure, a steady loop that drifts off-axis — its centre of gravity slipping.

Body as Barometer.

Dancers converge through clouds of thought and matter. In dissonant polyphony their movements register change like barometers — sensitive to pressure and subtle shifts in metronome. Dinosaur-like, they attempt to carry the weight of deep time, caught between extinction and evolution, chewing up the future and spitting it back out again.

From the creator behind Slip (2024).

“How do the conditions of contemporary planetary crisis shape the genres of temporal experience that make up the present?”

— Gary Zhexi Zhang

CREDITS:

Choreographer: Rebecca Jensen

Performers: Rebecca Jensen, Anika de Ruyter, Texas Nixon-Kaine

Sound Composition: Andrew Wilson

Set & Costume Design: Romanie Harper

Lighting: Giovanna Yate Gonzalez

Producer: Anna Nalpantidis

Consultant: Brooke Stamp