Rule of Thirds 2016
A powerful and intricate piece, Rule of Thirds was a highly physical performance that celebrated perseverance, audacity and the ongoing desire to reinvent ourselves. The dancers tested and altered a strong force field they had set up amongst each other, gradually deconstructing and dismantling the movement score. All players were needed, but who was eventually in charge? Rule of Thirds promised – and delivered – guts, virtuosity and focused abandon.
Rule of Thirds was the third part in the Embodiment series initiated by Anouk van Dijk in 2013. This was a trilogy of interventions between dancers, a movement score and a chosen site. The movement score was malleable and deliberately deconstructed, dismantled and stretched on each new site, affecting the performance, the meaning and the intensity of the work. After the vastness of Depth of Field (2015) and the dramatic architecture of Embodiment 1:1:1 (2013), Rule of Thirds moved into the illusion and intimacy of the theatre space. Rule of Thirds was presented as part of the Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival Cultural Program.
Creative Team
Concept, Choreography & Direction Anouk van Dijk
Lighting Design Ben Cobham/Bluebottle
Sound Design Jethro Woodward
Music Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm, The Bug, FM3, Ben Frost, Peter Knight, Christiaan Virant
Costume Design Chloe Greaves
Original Performers James Vu Anh Pham, Niharika Senapati, Tara Jade Samaya, Luigi Vescio
Artistic Director Anouk van Dijk
Executive Director Vanessa Pigrum
Company Producer Hillary Coyne
Production Manager Michael Carr
Technical Operator Blair Hart
Premiere Season
19 February 2016 Melbourne
Touring Season
2017 Dandenong, Melbourne, Warrnambool
“Beyond specific gestures, choreographer Anouk van Dijk draws from a set arsenal of movement content, much of which has been developed through her codified movement system, Countertechnique.” The Age. Read more
“It somehow manages to conjure an expansive, abyssal universe, ripe with narrative subtext.” Limelight Magazine. Read more
L-R: Niharika Senapati, Tara Jade Samaya, James Vu Anh Pham Image: Pippa Samaya
