Pluriverse

Presented by VCA Dance & VCA Design and Production Students

Pluriverse is a weaving of strength, liberation, wisdom, and human experience—a journey through ancient and spiritual spaces of land and sky country, intersecting with mythical belief systems and cross-cultural lineages. It conjures a state of becoming where time is neither now nor past, but transcendent. For our 2025 Graduation Season, three new contemporary dance works by international and Melbourne-based choreographers express VCA’s vision of ever-evolving creativity, the value of knowledges drawn from across cultures, and the transformative practices of choreographic collaborations.

VCA Dance & VCA Design and Production students present choreographies and designs expressive of the diverse cultural stories that shape our contemporary practices. Rheannan Port and Wirastuti Susilaningtyas (Tututtuty) weave Indigenous Australian and Javanese knowledges with spiritual rituals to embody the diamond rain phenomenon. Jill Crovisier leads us through shifting temporal landscapes, where characters converge and our linear sense of time dissolves. Before we can find a sense of place, Melanie Lane summons us into the underworld, where shrieks of the past and ghosts of the future beckon.

Collectively these works seek to transcend time, entwine and celebrate cultures, and interlace relationships across pluriversal spaces and places.

Image: Gregory Lorenzutti, Pluriverse, 2025.

Program Notes & Complete Credits

Videos On Demand

Diamond Rain

inspiration from the natural phenomenon of diamond rain, weaving together Javanese and Indigenous Australian perspectives to explore spirituality, ritual, the cyclical nature of life and relationship to land, sky and sea.

Watch Diamond Rain

LE MIRACLE

An extraordinary glimpse of reinvention, providing a unique insight into the diversity of life and belonging in a surreal place where reality collides with fantasy.

Watch LE MIRACLE

Under Oath

Working with the body as a vessel that turns rage into rupture, pursuit into benevolence, Under Oath inhabits a speculative realm that reflects a world treading between wrath and justice.

Watch Under Oath