Victoria Chiu joins us for a Showcase Performance that explores the universal invitation to return to your moving body, with nature as your equal
On Saturday 29 August, we're welcoming Melbourne dancer, choreographer and PhD scholar Victoria Chiu to our Amphitheatre stage for a shared group movement experience, part of our ongoing Showcase Series.
In a world increasingly lived through screens, Victoria's performance is a gentle reminder that our bodies matter, our connection to the non-human world matters, and we feel healthier when finding these deeper connections. Guests are welcome to move as they choose, in our hot springs or on the nearby terrace lawns, following the journey of the water and surrounding land, while Melbourne multi-instrumentalist Roland Cox weaves a live, improvised sound score through the experience.
Open to all, with no dance experience necessary, this is an invitation to immerse yourself into the universal, grounding experience of dance under Victoria's lead. The Showcase marks the culmination of a week-long residency at Peninsula Hot Springs, during which Victoria has explored the quiet conversation between body and water, inspired by our ancient thermal waters drawn from 637 metres beneath the earth's surface.
Our Showcase Series is complimentary to attend, in addition to your bathing experience.
About our performer
Victoria Chiu trained at the VCA, Melbourne, and recently completed her PhD researching choreoethics through digital dancescapes. Her practice explores the body in relation to histories of self, people and place, working at the intersections of dance, screen and technology.
Chiu has collaborated, performed and toured extensively across Europe, Australia, Singapore, China and New Zealand, working with companies and artists including Cie Gilles Jobin, Micha Purucker, Cie Nomades, RDYSTDY, Kristina Chan, Carol Brown, Gabrielle Nankivell, Bernadette Walong and Australian Dance Theatre, among many others.
Collectively, her choreographic works, including Do You Speak Chinese?, Fire Monkey, What Happened In Shanghai, Soursweet, Genetrix, Floored, Grotto, Viral and The Ballad of Herbie Cox, have been presented in Europe, North America, China and Australia. In 2021, Victoria and RDYSTDY won the Green Room Award for Best Digital Dance for Soursweet. Since 2023, she has served as Co-Chair of the Green Room Dance Panel.