STRATA

Presented by VCA Dance and VCA Design & Production

STRATA is a layering of movement and sound across three distinct but interconnected choreographic worlds. These layers are built upon a core of human and more-than-human connection, the variability of scale, and the material rigour of dance.

Our 2026 Graduation Season presents three contemporary dance works by international and Melbourne-based choreographers: Louise Pōtiki Bryant, Rachel Coulson and Stephanie Lake. VCA Dance and VCA Design & Production students present choreographies and designs expressive of the layered perspectives that shape our contemporary practices.

Louise Pōtiki Bryant explores the Tī Kōuka tree and its relationships to recovery and re-rooting into our places of being after environmental destruction in Te More | The TapRoot.

In DEEP SEND, Rachel Coulson rigorously interrogates ascension, exploring speed, rhythms and varying time signatures.

Circle Electric by Stephanie Lake starts as a microscopic investigation of the intricate and the intimate, ultimately expanding to encompass a telescopic view of humanity, in a new reworked excerpt for VCA, staged by Kimball Wong.

Collectively these works layer sound, movement and meaning to traverse the possibilities of dance to express our connection to the worlds that surround us, and the ones we build for ourselves.

This performance will run for approximately 2 hours with an interval. Any latecomers will be admitted at the discretion of Front of House.

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Image: Diamond Rain, 2025. Image by Gregory Lorenzutti.