Australia Dancing - Kage Physical Theatre (1996

Kage Physical Theatre (1996 - )

Gould, Ross: (left to right) Kate Denborough, Phillip Gleeson, Tuula Roppola and Gerard van Dyck in 'No (under)Standing Anytime', Kage Physical Theatre, 2000

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Kage Physical Theatre was co-founded in 1996, by Kate Denborough and Gerard van Dyck. The company premiered its first work, Kage, as part of the Green Mill Dance Project in 1997. Kage Physical Theatre subsequently toured this show to Sydney where it was shown as part of the 1997 Bodies season at Newtown Theatre.

Other works created by Kage include Contamination, which was performed at the Karyn Lovegrove Gallery as part of the 1998 Next Wave Festival, Melbourne, and Asphyxiate which was created for the 1998 Bodies season in Sydney. Kage Physical Theatre presented the work No (Under)Standing Anytime in 2000 at the Australian Choreographic Centre, Canberra, the work having been developed both through the Australia Council Emerging Choreographers Initiative and a Fellowship from the Australian Choreographic Centre. Subsequently No (under)Standing Anytime was performed in Melbourne at the Next Wave Festival. In July 2000 Kage Physical Theatre was invited to perform This Side Up, choreographed by Denborough and commissioned by Chunky Move, at the Asia Pacific Next Wave Festival in Japan. Also in July 2000, with assistance from the Australia Council, Kage Physical Theatre commissioned Lucy Guerin to create a new work for the company entitled 2 Without Spine.

Between April and July 2001 Denborough and Van Dyck took up residence at the Australia Council Studio at the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris. Kage appeared at the 2003 Melbourne International Festival of the Arts Nowhere Man, which subsequently won a 2003 Green Room Award for best concept and realisation.

The philosophy behind Kage, according to its directors, is to present ‘Dance Theatre that is both rich and raw in its physicality and humour’.

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