To the uninitiated, the fourth level of a car park may seem an unlikely location for a contemporary dance performance, however, in this third chapter of his car-park series titled Clouds Still Know Our Names, choreographer and NON (New Old Now) founder Davide Di Giovanni is very much at home.

NON’s Clouds Still Know Our Names. Photo © Myles Kalus

Set against the setting sun, with occasional tyre squeals below and screeching go-karts above, it is a surprisingly tranquil space – even the cheers from the adjacent Sydney Cricket Ground are lost in an ambient white noise that blends seamlessly with the soundscape of composers Sandro Tzicoridze and Dan Lywood.

As darkness slowly falls, the gathering audience is held at bay while the performers warm up, some in isolation – the juxtaposition of the dancers’ meditative movements and the rising clamour of the expectant capacity crowd fills this found space with an almost ritualistic atmosphere that suggests, in part, Allan Kaprow’s Happenings, Jerzy Grotowski’s paratheatre and its further development by Antero Alli.

The din subsides as a disembodied voice delivers an Acknowledgement of Country, after which the audience members are instructed how to...