State Theatre Centre of WA and other venues
September 12 – 22, 2018

Run as a collaboration between Ausdance West Australia and local companies, the fourth MoveMe festival features the first new work in some years from WA local Chrissie Parrot (choreographing on Co3 dance company), a new piece from rising star Kynan Hughes, an intimate performance in a Perth bungalow by WA performance royalty (Elizabeth Dalman and George Shevtsov), as well as work from The Farm (Perth regulars based on the Gold Coast) and senior WA interdisciplinary theatre maker Sally Richardson. With such an impressive program and very little infrastructural support, one can only celebrate this fabulous smorgasbord, even if some pieces came off as slightly unfinished or not entirely coherent in their current form.

Hughes’ Love/Less came out of the choreographer’s mourning for his father. In its current state though it is an unremittingly heterosexist and romantic work in which two women (very well danced by Marlo Benjamin and Rachel Ogle) compete for, or mourn the loss of, the affections of one male dancer (Alexander Perrozzi). This is reinforced by a melancholic female voice-over on the loss of physical contact with her lover. Parrot’s In-Lore Act II is also...