The role our bodies play in channelling our every experience is the subject of the latest performance by Altona dancer Celia Hepburn.
Body of Everything will debut this Friday at The Art Room in Footscray as part of this year’s Melbourne Fringe Festival.
Hepburn said the performance was one of play and questioning, tracing the way in which our bodies determine our every encounter with our existence.
“This is a dance of celebration, a celebration of our bodies as everything,” she said.
“It’s the first solo piece I have created solely by myself.”
Hepburn started dancing at four and has maintained her passion ever since, drawn to the physicality of performance.
“I have tried lots of things and dance is the only thing I can’t not do,” she said.
Hepburn has created much of Body of Everything within The Art Room after the space was donated for her use by owner Erika Gofton.
She said the space has influenced the work and driven the story it will tell, right down to the charcoal dust accumulated on the floor from drawing classes.
“Space always informs dance anyway, but I have created a lot of it in this space,” she said.
The Deakin University graduate, who grew up in Kingsville but now calls Altona home, said she was committed to bringing more art to the west and jumped at the chance to perform Body of Everything in Footscray.
“I wanted to stay in the west rather than in the city or the north,” she said.
Featuring live music by Todd Gingell and Anthony Paterson,
Body of Everything will be performed 7pm Friday and 3pm and 7pm Saturday at The Art Room, 125 Hyde Street Footscray.
Tickets via www.melbournefringe.com.au
