The Australian Performing Arts Market (APAM) is a strategic initiative of Creative Australia, to showcase Australian and Aotearoa/New Zealand contemporary dance, theatre, music, emerging and experimental arts, nationally and internationally. From 2026-2030 APAM will be hosted in Boorloo/Perth, Western Australia, produced by PAC Australia.

APAM champions contemporary Australian performance internationally by deepening relationships and stimulating new markets and pathways through exchange, reciprocity, and hospitality.

I am showcasing my performance terra in this International Forum.

Perth Festival and STRUT Dance bring Boris Charmatz’ large-scale collective project CERCLES to Forrest Place. As one of the professional dancers I will join 150 amateurs to create choreography en masse in Forrest Place. CERCLES is a communal movement experience that extends our perception of what dance can be, propelled by the soundtrack by Meute, a Hamburg based techno brass band.

CERCLES explores the circle as a cocoon, as a raging crowd or a wall of bodies – agile, determined.
 
For its first edition the project was realised at Festival d’Avignon 2024 and was then presented in Wuppertal the same year and at Grand Palais in Paris in July 2025. Now it comes to Perth, in an Australian Exclusive as part of the free Perth Moves program.

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terra (film) by Cobie Orger with Alice Cummins

Official selection:
Light Moves Festival - Ireland 
International Ecoperformance Film Festival (IEFF) - Brazil, Argentina, Romania
Award winner: Best Ecopoet(h)ics Place III, (IEFF)

Inspired by the live work of the same name by influential choreographer/performer/educator, Alice Cummins, this immersive screen work weaves sound, sculpture and dance into a choreographed sequence of topographic and physical landscapes expressing relationship with, and concern for, country. Unveiled through three disparate perspectives, encounters of tenderness and disquiet are swept into the tectonic forces at play.

Ecoperfomance 
“Ecoperformance understands environment and body as inseparable dimensions of performative creation. In ecoperformances, the environment constitutes a living play of interactive presences and forces, among which the human body.”

terra (installation) by Cobie Orger with Alice Cummins

Nov 27 2024
Dance (Lens)
Dancehouse
150 Princes St Carlton
Feb 20 - Mar 3 2025

Loft 275
Ivanhoe Library & Cultural Hub
275 Upper Heidleberg Rd Ivanhoe
Proudly supported by a Banyule Arts & Culture Project Grant
Artists in conversation and Q&A:
Saturday 22 February, 3:00-4:30pm

Inspired by the live work of the same name by influential choreographer/performer/educator, Alice Cummins, this immersive screen work weaves sound, sculpture and dance into a choreographed sequence of topographic and physical landscapes expressing relationship with, and concern for, country. Unveiled through three disparate perspectives, encounters of tenderness and disquiet are swept into the tectonic forces at play.