Michael Shirrefs

Dance of the Leaves

A transcendent visual and sonic event, Dance of the Leaves has been performed to a packed audience in South Gippsland. The production, highlighting the inventive mind of Samara Cunningham, blends local and Melbourne-based dancers in a compelling spectacle.

Melt

The big production for (it’s no) drama physical performance ensemble for 2024 is Melt—an impressionistic telling of the story of the Lady of the Swamp. This tale—an extant and unsolved true crime mystery—tells of the strange life and unexplained disappearance, in the 1950s, of South Gippsland woman Margaret Clement.

Front Foot | Back Beat

Front Foot | Back Beat is a public dance collaboration that brought together a diverse range of people to create a new dance work. The project is the third in a trilogy of dance initiatives, under the guidance of dancer and community artist Samara Cunningham, combining trained and untrained dancers, across a range of ages and abilities.

Wild Woods

Wild Woods is the major production for 2023 from the much acclaimed (it’s no) drama physical performance ensemble. Staged at the Leongatha Memorial Hall, the South Gippsland group mesmerised the audience with a magical journey into a mystical space.

Dance Hall

Dance Hall is a dance lab experiment, drawing together five professionally trained dancers from South Gippsland in Victoria, each with different backgrounds and histories, to create a new work—a dance sketch—all in the space of six weeks.