Co3’s Artistic Director Raewyn Hill is never one to rest on her laurels or produce something which commands less than her complete mental acuity and time.

Here, in Architect of the Invisible, she has taken up Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy, condensing the lifeblood of this 100 canto narrative poem into a 75 minute performance – as epic a task, one is tempted to imagine, as must have been Dante’s authorship of this journey from the Inferno to Purgatory and Paradise.

Architect of the Invisible. Photo © Daniel James Grant 

Hill is ever at pains to thank her like-minded collaborators in all of her choreographic works. In Architect of the Invisible, she cites such creatives as Dave Mack, Laura Boynes, Sam Cohen, WAAPA’s Michael Whaites and the Link Dance Co, as well as her intrepid dancers and talented crew.

Added to this list is outgoing Perth Festival Director Iain Grandage (Composer/Musical arranger), Tyler Hill (Set Design), Mark Haslam (Lighting Design) and Emeritus Professor of Italian Studies at UWA John Kinder, with whom Hill consulted on realising – with much joy – that the author of the book on Dante she was reading was here...