Link welcomes Aloni and Brummer

Link Dance Company, WAAPA’s graduate dance company will be presenting its first season for 2016, May 18-21, at WAAPA’s Geoff Gibbs Theatre. Entitled “Motion State”, the program features a new work by Sweden-based choreographers Israel Aloni and Lee Brummer, Australian dancer/choreographer. The program will also feature new works by WAAPA alumnus Scott Ewen, 2010 Link graduate and independent dancer/choreographer Isabella Stone.

Aloni and Brummer’s work for “Motion State” is entitled As is and explores the concept of home and what home sympbolises for each of the performers. “What makes us feel at home or what makes us know that we are away from it?” asks Aloni. “We carry our home with us. In memories, in the stories we tell and in symbolic items that remain with us while we are geographically separated from where we call home.” Brummer describes the work as presenting the relationships, struggles and comfort associated with home. “It’s about forming structures of familiarity and the effect of what happens to us when this familiarity is taken away,” she explains.

Aloni and Brummer are co-founders and artistic directors of independent Swedish contemporary dance company ilDance. Originally from Tel Aviv, Israel Aloni is an international independent choreographer, educator, guest performer and entrepreneur. His long list of credits includes work with companies such as as GöteborgsOperans Danskompani, Odelya Kuperberg Dance Group and Sasha Waltz & Guests.

British-born Lee Brummer has danced with Emanuel Gat and Bat Dor Dance Companies and has recently choreographed segments of Billy Elliot for the Gothenburg Opera. Brummer, who has been based in Sweden since 2006, has worked with companies including Norrdans (Sweden), DV8 Physical Theatre (UK), Australian Dance Theatre and Sydney Dance Company, to name just a few.

For more information about “Motion State” head to http://www.waapa.ecu.edu.au/performances-and-events/performances