Tickets to AMPA’s NOVA out now!

Come join AMPA for NOVA, an electrifying night of dance showcasing AMPA’s Bachelor and Associate students!

The first half of the show features the final choreography projects by AMPA’s talented third-year students: Ede Greig, Sienna Driver, Lia Zeng, and Charlotte Thomson.

Every trimester, students present their culminating choreography projects to a live audience. The process begins with a thorough exploration of the concept, followed by collaborative studio sessions with selected dancers. The final stage includes lighting design, costume selection, sound integration, and promoting the production.

‘Do You See What I See?’ by Ede Greig is a contemporary jazz fusion that explores the neurological disorder, Visual Snow Syndrome, its symptoms and its effects on individuals.

’32’ by Lia Zeng is a mesmerising contemporary dance piece that explores the boundaries of self-discovery, challenged by the confinements within social norms.

Charlotte Thomson’s ‘Encephalon’ is a dynamic contemporary dance piece, a cognitive journey of the brain’s functions growing in complexity with each stage of vertebrate evolution. 

‘Unnerving…’ by Sienna Driver is a contemporary dance work exploring surveillance and its effect the human condition particularly, the increase in paranoid sentiments.

In the second half, experience a diverse blend of styles, including a theatrical piece by guest choreographer Idan Cohen. Idan collaborated with AMPA’s dance students for a week in the studio, creating ‘Whistle Through Time.’ Idan’s work will be presented alongside dynamic works from esteemed faculty members: Anton, Francesca Gozdek, Kristina Wallbank-Hutton, Andii Huynh, and Alysia Jarvis.

AMPA alumni dancers will join dancers on stage to present an excerpt from Twisted Element’s Ritual directed by Angela Hamilton. The work explores cultism, ceremony and mass conditioning. The audience is invited into a meticulously crafted world, where lines between spectator and participant blur. Each moment is a carefully orchestrated fusion of movement, sound, and emotion, challenging perceptions and inviting audiences to question the very nature of reality.

Twisted Element, known for their genre-defying approach, shatters the fourth wall to create a living, breathing artwork. In Ritual, chaos and beauty intertwine, identities warp, and the familiar becomes extraordinary. 

NOVA will be in the NIDA Playhouse 9 & 10 August at 7:30 pm. Don’t miss out — Get your NOVA tickets now!

AMPA’s NOVA, Dancers Elka Holden-Price and Amber Winter-Keller, Photo by Wenny Tan