DANCE CURATED BY RAEWYN HILL
Works by Mitch Harvey (staged by Zee Zunnur), Logan Ringshaw, Kimberley Parkin, and Co3 Artistic Director Raewyn Hill
18 - 22 JUNE 2025
LIBERTY THEATRE PERTH
60 MINUTE RUNNING TIME
Co3 acknowledge the Whadjuk people of the Nyoongar nation, the Traditional Owners of this land and pay respects to Elders past and present. We celebrate those who have danced across Boodja for more than 60,000 years and it is our hope that dance unites our humanity.
Co3 ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Welcome to GATHERING.1, the first in a series of events marking 10 years of Co3 Contemporary Dance. This celebration is more than a milestone it is a living archive of people, ideas, and pathways that have shaped who we are and who we are becoming.
Inspired by the spirit of In Good Company at the Mess Hall in 2021 GATHERING.1 brings together voices past, present, and future. It is a celebration of the artists who have grown within this company, and of the vibrant community we continue to nurture.
This evening opens with a small, intimate work, featuring music by Eden Mulholland, that I have created with the dancers. What Remains pieces together fragments from Co3’s history, moments etched into the dancers’ bodies, memories passed through muscle and breath. It is a quiet reflection on what we hold, what we remember, and how, together, we carry our collective past into the present.
The evening features works by artists who have come through Co3’s Pathways Program a platform designed to support creative talent in Western Australia. Logan Ringshaw, an exciting new creative voice, presents a bold new offering, Kimberley Parkin returns to share her evolution as an artist, in her signature intelligent and unique creative style.
We are also thrilled to include the contribution of Mitch Harvey, one of Co3’s founding dancers and now based in Switzerland. His creative fingerprint remains part of our DNA, and his connection to Co3 reminds us that the work we do here can resonate far beyond our borders.
Luci Young, an original Co:Youth dancer and Company dancer in FRANK ENSTEIN, ARCHIVES OF HUMANITY, GLORIA, now in her third year at WAAPA, returns to Co3 in a new role as a costume designer. Together we have curated existing Co3 costumes and reimagined them through her own lens. Her transformation of these garments is a beautiful metaphor for the company itself honouring legacy, to create something new.
Mark Haslam, my long-time collaborator brings his signature lighting and visual design to the evening. His work has shaped the visual identity of many of Co3’s most iconic productions, creating immersive worlds that elevate movement into powerful, poetic experiences. His contribution has been integral to the company’s legacy.
Ella-Rose Trew, a founding dancer of Co3, returns in the role of Rehearsal Director. Her deep connection to the company’s early vision and her embodiment of its artistic values make her return both meaningful and powerful, a full-circle moment of leadership, legacy, and artistic continuity.
The dancers performing tonight are artists with deep histories with the company and within my own choreographic journey. Their connection to this place and to the work is personal, layered, and alive.
GATHERING.1 is a testament to what happens when we invest in people and hold space for their growth. Thank you for joining us as we honour the past, celebrate the present, and imagine what comes next.
Raewyn Hill
Artistic Director | Co3 Contemporary Dance
IN.RESIDENCE IS PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY THE WRIGHT BURT FOUNDATION AND PROJECT SPONSOR EY.
IN.RESIDENCE, AS A PART OF OUR PATHWAYS PROGRAM, IS SUPPORTED BY THE CITY OF PERTH.
THE REST IS NOISE
Choreography by Logan Ringshaw
The Rest is Noise by Jamie xx
The Rest is Noise is a piece that explores the navigation of distraction, noise and stillness, separation, and oneness, for those searching peace or clarity in a distracting world. The piece will be energised and emotive, even in its moments of stillness. I want it to feel raw, real, and human, while still having structure and refinement for clarity of experience.
The movement swells and changes in response to the soundtrack, which is an emotive instrumental track. The track allows for a blended combination of physical language and concepts of contemporary and street dance approaches and ideologies that, come together to create a balance of raw feeling and refined choreography.
This work questions and establishes what alignment and unity can look like in oneself, and in others.
TRI-HARD
Choreography by Kimberley Parkin
Original Composition by David Stewart
It’s a Fine Day by Jane
Tri-Hard is a dance trio exploring the complex interplay of conflict, conformity, and connection. As three people navigate shifting relationships and power dynamics, the work beckons the question; is three is a crowd or a party? Through a constantly evolving triangle of influence, Tri-Hard probes the delicate balance between unity and individual will—where every moment reshapes the whole.
Ideas behind work:
“Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.” ― James Thurber
HUH
Choreography by Mitch Harvey
Staging by Zee Zunnur
Original composition by Louis Frere-Harvey
HUH is the meeting of friends, a celebration of nothing but movement and the music that drives us to move. Exploring how a group of people interact as they prepare for something. What it is we don’t really know. Are they heading to a party or are they heading nowhere but the space they are in right now.
HUH was originally created as part of In Good Company a unique music and dance experience at the Perth Mess Hall in 2021. Through the work I wanted to explore the process of a night out. Using the ideas of celebration, partying and the coming together of people to have fun and connect with each other. It starts individual everyone doing their own thing scattered around the space in their own worlds and then slowly coming together as the music and energy builds. I wanted to keep a very strong element of playfulness between the performers, trying to keep the feeling excitement of what the night could become and where they could end up. As the war progresses the music intensifies and builds along with the movement. The performers separate into couples and become even more playful and intimate with each other. As the work progresses the group comes together, and it turns into just total fun and celebration moving through the space and connecting to the music and the rhythm. HUH is a work that should not be taken too seriously, should have you wanting to move as you watch it and hopefully get you wanting to get up and dance once it is finished.
COSTUMES - Y1
Created by Luci Young
In mentorship with Raewyn Hill
Luci Young is an emerging artist based in Boorloo, with a background in dance and interest in creating communities through her work. She completed an Advanced Dip with PPY of Sydney Dance Company and currently in 3rd yr at WAAPA. She’s professionally worked with Co:3, GUTS DANCE, The Farm, WA Opera and STRUT Dance. Her training has taken her to India, and throughout Europe, most recently in collaboration with six international artists to create ‘Rage is Yellow’ in Bangalore. Luci currently co-facilitates Make-Shift Evenings, a local platform for experimentation and improvisational performance.
Luci is constantly falling in and out of love with the temporality of dance. She has developed a textile arts practice that complements her performance practice by offering a material outcome and promoting sustainable textile practices. She has found ways to use textiles to connect people through sustainable knitting workshops, activating event spaces with installations, designing costumes for dance performance and producing sustainable fashion for her brand Young 1. This is not the first commission Y1 is engaged in to bring her unique designs to the public, but it’s a very exciting point in her journey with Co3 Dance Australia.
In collaboration with Raewyn Hill, Luci has taken pre-existing Co3 costumes and reimagined them through her own lens.
DANCERS
MILLIE MADEN
HUH
Secondment Student NZSD
LINK DANCE COMPANY
MICHAEL WHAITES
LINK Dance Company Artistic Director
SIAHN HOWATSON
REBECCA FLEMING
EBONY PLUESS
GEORGIA DOUVARTZIDIS
HUNTER EWEN
It has been a delight to work with Raewyn and the Co3 team over the past couple of weeks to build the short interludes LINK perform along with the foyer activation in Gathering 1. These moments have been inspired by a range of sources including a child’s 10th birthday party, imagining the Liberty in its heyday and elements recycled from a work I made in 2007. LINK is very proud of its 10 year association with Co3. Happy Birthday Co3!
LINK Dance Company appears courtesy of Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA).
LIVE SOUNDSCAPES
CREDITS
SIMONNE MATTHEWS
Stage Manager
PAUL ROWE
Production Coordinator
With sincere thanks to Randall Humich and Noah Humich of the Humich Property Group for their generous support of Co3’s vision and for making our time at the Liberty Theatre possible.
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ABOUT Co3
CO3 CONTEMPORARY DANCE IS AN ARTISTIC HOUSE, PROUDLY BASED IN PERTH, BOORLOO, ON THE LANDS OF THE WHADJUK NYOONGAR PEOPLE.
Co3 produces contemporary dance, delivered by national and international leaders at the forefront of Australian art. Since 2016, the company has been the creative home for dance pioneer Raewyn Hill, a working artist, maker, educator, performer, and director. The annual artistic program centres on the development, creation and touring of major and minor scale works that are uniquely physical, multidisciplinary in nature, and technological in focus. As a core priority for the company, Raewyn developed the PATHWAYS PROGRAM and established partnerships with WAAPA and the independent dance sector, demonstrating a commitment to empowering and inspiring the next generation of artists.
Co3 BOARD AND EXECUTIVE
MICHAEL SMITH AO
Patron
MARGRETE HELGEBY CHANEY
Chair
PETER METCALF
Deputy Chair & Secretary
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Treasurer
ISABELLA BOSWORTH
Director
HELEN CARROLL
Director
ALECIA BENZIE
Director
AARON BEACH
Director
Co3 STAFF
RAEWYN HILL
Artistic Director
HILARY MCKENNA
Executive Director
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