FALL IN was commissioned for The Australian Ballet’s 2019 Bodytorque Atelier season and presented at Melbourne’s Southbank Theatre, with musicians from Orchestra Victoria performing live on stage alongside the dancers.

We fall in,
but to what?
Line.
Rhythm.
Sequence.
Beliefs.
Rules.

FALL IN explores the act of falling into line — into rhythm, beat, structure and collective momentum. Through the relationship between dancers and live musicians, the work examines how bodies are drawn into patterns that organise, direct and contain them.

Choreographic unison and musical precision become a parallel for social order: the systems, codes and expectations that shape how we move together. In this space, structure is both seductive and controlling, revealing the tension between individuality and the forces that compel us to align