Midfield

An experimental choreographic platform held within SANCTUARY 25.

Across the three weeks of the festival, seven mid-career choreographers will gather for an open experimental residency co-presented by STRUT Dance, Performing Lines WA and Fremantle Biennale. Accompanied by renowned multi-genre artists offering provocation and guidance, participants will explore new thinkings, action and movement — responding to each other, their surroundings, and the shifting context of the Biennale.

There is no fixed outcome. Instead, Midfield offers time and space to move, listen, test and respond to place. What emerges might take the form of a workshop, a public intervention, a gesture — or something entirely unexpected.

Rooted in STRUT Dance’s commitment to independent choreographic development, and Performing Lines WA’s support of contemporary, artist-led practice, Midfield makes visible the choreographic process itself — as experiment, as dialogue, as embodied thinking. Audiences are invited to stay curious and witness this unfolding program across our port city.

A collaboration between Fremantle Biennale, Performing Lines WA and STRUT Dance.

Artists: Kathleen Szalay, Natalie Allen, Isabella Stone, Montserrat Heras, Joshua Pether, Deepa Mani and Fitrya Ali Imran.