Future History

Future History is a collaboratively imagined solo performance by Gabrielle Nankivell featuring an award-winning team including Australian artists Luke Smiles, Martin del Amo, Kristina Chan and Joshua Thomson along with international artists Rasmus Ölme and Vania Vaneau.

Weaving notions personal and universal, Future History reflects the precarious nature of the human body and the natural world. The work manifests the cyclic quality of global uncertainty throughout time in response to threat – conflict, epidemic, escalating climate events – and illuminates the vulnerability and resilience implicit in life on earth.

Although conceived and developed long before the spectre of COVID-19 entered the scene, this project and the conversations it provokes feels decidedly urgent when facing our current predicament as artists and a society.

A new ritual.

Melancholic resolution. Unresolved continuance. Grieving something we haven't yet lost. Losing something we only just have a sense of. An endless oscillation between hope and despair, fear and courage, past and future, life and death.

Credits

Made by Gabrielle Nankivell in collaboration with Luke Smiles, Martin del Amo, Kristina Chan, Joshua Thomson, Rasmus Ölme and Vania Vaneau, with contributions by Harriet Oxley and Meg Wilson.

Supporters

The creative development of this work has been generously supported by:

The Government of South Australia Arts South Australia

Australian Dance Theatre's International Centre for Choreography

The Mill's Emerging Producer Xchange

Stockholm University of the Arts

Lieues Lyon

Legs on the Wall

Photos: Sam Roberts