Colossus
Thrilling and frightening and entirely unforgettable. A monumental talent.
Expansively political and almost microscopically intimate. With this sumptuous
and thorny masterpiece, Lake has cemented herself at the heart of Australian dance.
When I walked out of Colossus, my blood was singing with sheer exhilaration. It’s rare to see a work of this scale,
with 50 disciplined bodies on one stage, and rarer still to see new work of such epic ambition fully realised.
Stephanie Lake’s latest dance, her largest to date, is a triumph.
Emotional and human.
Wildly mesmerising. When the performance comes to an end, there is stillness and
a silence as if we’re not exactly sure what we have just witnessed…before a standing ovation.
Stephanie Lake has danced with most of our best contemporary dance-makers and now,
only five years or so into her choreographic career, she’s making a very strong bid to join them at the top table.
Colossus
Stephanie Lake Company / Australia
Colossus is an exhilarating contemporary dance performance for up to 50 dancers created by internationally renowned Australian choreographer Stephanie Lake.
Colossus had a sell-out premiere season in 2018 at Arts Centre Melbourne and was met with standing ovations, five star reviews and a rapturous response from audiences. It has been listed as the Number 1 show of the year by Time Out Melbourne. The show’s video trailer has since gone viral online, reaching a global audience of millions.
At its heart, Colossus is about humanity and the exquisite complexity of living in close proximity to one another. The show is choreographically intricate, thematically bold and has been described as a ‘kick to the solar plexus’. It is at once delicately intimate and explosively dynamic. Featuring 50 student dancers in the original production, Colossus seeks to explore the joy and tension of the collective experience and how we navigate being individuals within the mass.
