Short works, big ideas.

Our short worksprogram, 600 Seconds, returns bigger than ever! Expanding into five distinct programs: Moves, Makes, Montage, Music, and Menagerie, this year’s program bursts with bold ideas, fresh talent, and creative energy to warm your winter nights.

An exciting partnership with STRUT Dance brings you five brand-new dance and movement works, mentored by dance extraordinaires Adelina Larsson and Anthony Coxeter and showcasingthe vibrancy of WA’s dance artists.

Dress RUN! by Tom Mullane
This is an impromptu exploration of the everyday rituals of theatrical labour. Dress RUN! invitesaudiences to question when preparation ends, and performance begins.

Nexus by MJ Anderson-Hyde
At the edge of connection, the nexus between connection and friction. What we withhold and what aches to be held. Fractured intimacy craves healing. Team: MJ Anderson-Hyde and Lachlan Ives

Night Life by Logan Ringshaw
A culmination and expression of the deep rhythmic experience of dance, cluband party culture. Duality of the individual and the commune are explored in this modern tribal movement work.

Phasing / Things Dying / Disappearing. Fassung Two. by Lara Dorling
I will revisit and remember. My body: which might be/is slowly disappearing. I part myself; pieces of us vanish/leave/are pushed out.

Power of Popby Toby To
Toby’s high-energy K-pop dance celebrates rhythm and joy. Combining sharp movements with expressive stage presence, this vibrant, purple-powered performance showcasesToby’s creativity, passion, and confidence.

About Mentors
Adelina Larsson is an award-winning Swedish/Mexican choreographer, curator, producer, and educator based on Wardandi Country in Wooditjup Margaret River. Her work spans remote and regional communities, with presentations at major institutions including Melbourne Festival, Perth Festival, Sydney Opera House, PICA, Museum of WA BoolaBardip, and the State Theatre CentreWA.

She is the founder and director of Strange Attractor Lab, a national interdisciplinary residency program supporting experimental artistic research with leading facilitators and artists. Adelina received the 2019 Australian Dance Award for In the Rite II: Solo, the WA Regional Artist Fellowship (2021), and FAC’s Groundwork residency (2023). In 2024 she was selected by renowned director Robert Wilson to create and perform new work at The Watermill Center in New York. She has also held key creative and producing roles with BighART and Critical Path. In 2025she premiered Bell with STRUT Dance and PICA.

Anthony Coxeter is a dramaturg from Meanjin (Brisbane) who lives in Wooditjup (Margaret River). For a decade since 2013, he has worked with a small number of long-term collaborators in contemporary dance across Australia, Europe and the United States. His sustained output with Swedish-Mexican dance artist Adelina Larsson-Mendoza includes a series of six dance works (No Place, 2013; In the Rite I, 2016; In the Rite II, 2019; In the Rite III, 2020; In the Rite IV, 2024; and Bell, 2025). ‘In the Rite II’ premiered in Perth at the State Theatre of Western Australia, while ‘In the Rite IV’, part of Larsson-Mendoza’s Min Folkdans project, premiered at Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center in Long Island New York in 2024. ‘Bell’, commissioned for a site-specific work at Perth Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), and responding to Swedish choreographer Per Jonsson’s Schaktat the same venue in 1993, was performed as a dance solo in 2025.

Image Credit: Apurva Gupta