EMPTYING THE BUCKET Announces Performances

Melbourne and Berlin based choreographer and performance artist Nebahat Erpolat brings to the 2016 Melbourne Fringe Festival program a new thought-provoking dance piece that invites audiences to look back into the world of human desire and love.

Emptying The Bucket explores the questions around how we see and feel love in our contemporary society and how one can express these connections and ideas through live-art and dance. Referencing Ancient Vedic scripts, Emptying The Bucket challenges some of the earliest notions and concepts around the meaning of love that are still present in today's society: How do we stop looking for the right person, when that person is only a reflection of ourselves?

Erpolat says, "The idea of what love is and how best to find it has existed for centuries. I chose to focus this conceptually and challenge and contest the way we view love in the world today. I wanted to create a work that is centralised around the unconventional exploration of what love is, was and could be."

Nebahat Erpolat is an independent choreographer and performer known for creating daring experimental performative works that pulls together various mediums like dance, live art, video and photography. Since graduating from the Victorian Collage of the Arts with a Post-Graduate Diploma in Dance Animateuring, Erpolat has developed her practice both physically and theoretically drawing on themes from her cultural background in contemporary issues, gender studies and her knowledge of Somatic Psychotherapy, creating highly experimental works that challenge traditional notions of performance and dance.

Choreographed in collaboration with a group of dancers including Harrison Ritchie-Jones, Sherridan Gerrard, Emma Richies and Josh Twee, Nebahat Erpolat leads a creative team of artists to seek and reject love in this multi-faceted complex dance work. Working together for the first time with visual light installation artist Alex Walker and dramaturg Stephane Hisler (former dancer with the internationally renowned Dance Company Sasha Waltz & Guests).

Emptying the Bucket is the choreographer's first work to premiere in Melbourne since her well-received performance piece Urban Rupture (Melbourne Fringe Festival, 2015). Emptying the Bucket will take place over four nights as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival's Emerald City, an eclectic collection if emerging and established artists at North Melbourne's Meat Market. ?

For more info visit: http://www.nebahaterpolat.com/