Atlanta Eke has built a reputation as one of Australia's most provocative choreographers with a radical approach to tackling the complex anxieties of our technologically laden world.

The Tennis Piece is a dance performance and multimedia installation that reimagines the Tennis Court as a time machine, performed by 4 dancers, 4 tennis ball machines, 400 tennis balls, and a robotic lute. Eke, together with her dancers, travel back to 20 June 1789 where the members of the French Third Estate congregated in the city of Versailles and took the Tennis Court Oath, a pivotal event in the French Revolution. What unfolds is a choreographic de-construction of Renaissance dance; the collapse of organised social court dances; and the unleashing of an explosive new process, beyond human agency. Eke contemplates the confines of 'supreme cosmic intelligence' through a new choreographic modality that reorganises the known into the deeply unrecognisable.

Dancing in the face of obsolescence, against an irrational and intensifying flow of 400 hundred tennis balls and 4 self-feeding tennis ball machines, The Tennis Piece becomes a container for positive feedback loops — ever rapidly approaching an unthinkable limit that was forever and always already there.

The Tennis Piece begins as 'live trailers' at Gertrude Contemporary exhibited as an installation and a series of choreographed activations before being presented by Dancehouse as a feature length performance at Collingwood Town Hall as a part of Dance Massive from 19 March 2019 - 21 March 2019.

WHERE: Collingwood Town Hall, 140 Hoddle Street, Collingwood (Entry via Eddy Court)
DATES: Tue 19 to Thu 21 March
TIMES: 7pm
DURATION: 50mins
PRICE: All Tickets $28

More information at dancehouse.com.au