Shifting Lines
Onsite, Hybrid & Online Events
Shifting Lines is a solo Contemporary Middle Eastern dance work. Interweaving dance, lighting, fabric, music, film and space to transform the human body. Hauntingly beautiful, meditative and hypnotic.
Range of audience experiences including sitting and watching to gallery style, where audiences become part of the work.
Designed to play in a variety of venues: theatres, dance studios, townhalls, office spaces, laneways.
Online and hybrid presentations offer compatible experiences to those in real life.
Length and delivery are tailored to the event.
Travel with a self-contained team and equipment.
Creative Team
Laura Osweiler | Dancer, Choreographer, Videographer, Audio Describer
Paul Osborne | Lighting Designer
Cassie To | Composer
Lux Eterna | Film Maker
Sarah Houbolt | Audio Description Consultant
Journey with the solo dancing body. The concrete body is the conduit, the catalyst. Into haunting images. Hypnotising. Mesmerizing. Thoughts slip into a disappearing self. Morphing into the present body. Body consciousness. Traces of movement in space and time.
Theatre
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Site-Specific
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Hybrid
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Online
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Community
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Engagement & community reach opportunities include
- Audiences become part of the immersive dance work
- Create a new dance with local artists based on Shifting Lines
- Workshops on Shifting Lines choreographic processes, lighting & movement, Middle Eastern dance and fusion dance
- Talks and Q&As
- Performances of Belly dance and Middle Eastern folk dance
Production History
2021 Shifting Lines / Shifted (Hybrid Format) at March Dance Festival
2019 Shifting Lines (Gallery Format) at Brand X and TWT Creative Precinct Event, Art Monthly in Sydney & March Dance Sydney
2019 Shifting Lines / Segments (Stage Format) at The Austin Belly Dance Convention in the USA
Support
Shifting Lines / Shifted
Dance March Festival, Critical Path, City of Sydney, Create NSW and Australia Council for the Arts
Shifting Lines
Commissioned by Brand X
Development at AusDance NSW’s DAIR program with residencies at Australian College of Physical Education (2016) and Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre (2018) and Critical Path’s Open Studio (2016 & 2017)
Access includes
- Audio Description
- Captioning
- Wheelchair space
- Crip Time

@Brand X
Photo | Lux Eterna

Studio
Photo | Le Vieux Loup

@the ABDC
Photo | Joe Spitler

Studio
Photo | Le Vieux Loup

@Brand X
Photo | Lux Eterna

@the ABDC
Photo | Joe Spitler

@Brand X
Photo | Lux Eterna

Studio
Photo | Le Vieux Loup

@Brand X
Photo | Greg Osweiler








