29 June - 10 July 2005

Acclaimed choreographer/dancer Narelle Benjamin, one of the original founders of the Chunky Move Dance Company has astonished audiences in the past with her talent as highly elastic dancer with exceptional capability to reshape and contort her body. Her first live work with Onextra, Inside Out, was a hit with audiences in 2003. In Out of Water, Narelle has created a work for her dancers Kristina Chan, Lina Limosani and Kathy Cogill where yoga and dance influences collide as the performers explore the relationships between bodies, light and sound.

The other performance on the bill is Grounded on Air, devised and performed by masterful performer Dean Walsh. Dean has been involved in the last few years with British Dance Company DV8 and has toured the UK and Europe. Dean was guest artist in 2002 in the Australian Dance Theatre's production, The Age of Unbeauty for which he received the Australian Dance Award for Most Outstanding Performance by a Male Dancer. In Grounded on Air, Dean drapes himself in pleasure - the need for it....blinded by it....the queer in it....chemically enhancing it....learning to trust it.