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Cella

Paul White and Narelle Benjamin

Presented in Season 1 2019

Presented by Arts House as part of Dance Massive

Tue 12 – Sat 16 Mar
7.45pm

65 mins
$35 / $30 / $25
Ticket packages are now off sale

Meat Market
5 Blackwood Street,
North Melbourne

Accessibility:

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Wheelchair Accessible

The Friday 15 March performance has been cancelled due to performer illness. We are in the process of contacting ticket holders to arrange an exchange or refund. 

Leading contemporary dancers Narelle Benjamin and Paul White come together for an evolutionary new dance work.

Inspired by the building blocks of life – cells – Cella explores the idea that the most complex patterns imaginable in our biological systems can be found repeated in all of us. The culmination of the shared histories, practices and interests of its creators, the work is a stunning meditation on the wonder of the human body.

Human movement is taken to extremes as the dancers perform astonishing solos, then come together in wonderful mirror images that offer insight into the physiological world we inhabit and the natural symmetry that surrounds us.

In a world where we’re all trying to be different, desperately striving to be individuals, Cella celebrates the beauty of our collective similarities.

‘Eloquently, elegantly and passionately performed, Cella is haunting, powerful and hypnotic.’ Dance Magazine 

‘A thing of beauty.’ Dance Australia

Choreography and performers: Narelle Benjamin, Paul White
Concept: Narelle Benjamin
Composer: Huey Benjamin with additional music from The Necks and Colleen
Lighting Designer: Karen Norris
Costume Designer: Justine Shih Person
Producer: Jenifer Leys
Photography: Pippa Samaya


Supported by – Cella is supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body; the City of Melbourne through Arts House; and Performing Lines. Supported during development by Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch and the New South Wales Government of Australia through Create NSW. Original premiere supported by the Tanja Liedtke Foundation and co-produced with COLOURS International Dance Festival.
Image by – Pippa Samaya