Victorian College of the Arts Invites You to Explore the ‘Pluriverse’

Pluriverse is a weaving of strength, liberation, wisdom, and human experience—a journey through ancient and spiritual spaces of land and sky country, intersecting with mythical belief systems and cross-cultural lineages. It conjures a state of becoming where time is neither now nor past, but transcendent. For Victorian College of the Arts’ 2025 Graduation Season, three new contemporary dance works by international and Melbourne-based choreographers express VCA’s vision of ever-evolving creativity, the value of knowledges drawn from across cultures, and the transformative practices of choreographic collaborations.

VCA Dance & VCA Design and Production students present choreographies and designs expressive of the diverse cultural stories that shape our contemporary practices. Rheannan Port and Wirastuti Susilaningtyas (Tututtuty) weave Indigenous Australian and Javanese knowledges with spiritual rituals to embody the diamond rain phenomenon. Jill Crovisier leads us through shifting temporal landscapes, where characters converge and our linear sense of time dissolves. Before we can find a sense of place, Melanie Lane summons us into the underworld, where shrieks of the past and ghosts of the future beckon.

Collectively these works seek to transcend time, entwine and celebrate cultures, and interlace relationships across pluriversal spaces and places.

Pluriverse will be performed at Space 28, 30 Dodds St., Southbank, from 12-15 November. Evening performances will begin at 7:00 PM, with an additional 2:00 PM matinee on 15 November.

Tickets are $10 for concession and $15 for full admission. You can book your tickets here.

(Un)Tethered, Gregory Lorenzutti, 2024