PEDAL — Flynn Dakis, Jesper Harrison, Sarah Ceraso & Toni Stathopoulos

— Left out to dry PEDAL traces artistic swimming’s lineage, inheriting its aesthetic, physical, and performative textures. As a quartet assuming tetrapod status, the dancers negotiate an ever-contracting choreographic space. In this shrinkage, gesture transforms. Beckoning becomes something other than itself. A timepiece in another time. A form once submerged, now extracted. Like the whale, the dance inherits a terrestrial ancestor—a structure it has abandoned. Bodies, drenched and heavy, are lifted, hurled, and finally expelled; the puddle shrinks steadily beneath them. Divergence is both method and engine. Dance as transmogrification. Choreographers/Performers Flynn Dakis, Jesper Harrison, Sarah Ceraso, & Toni Stathopoulos Sound Design Angie Collins and Jesper Harrison Costume Design Andrew Treloar PEDAL has been supported by the University of Melbourne Student Union and the MPavillion Participatory Arts Award.