Choreographer, Producer

Adelaide Fringe Festival, 2024

THE OTHER SIDE is a bold contemporary dance work that explores how we deal with change, growth, decay and the in between. And, how we often do it within a community of people of whom we’re either temporarily or permanently bound. Created through a raw feminine lens, the movement is engrained with thought, humour, struggle and autoethnographic identity. A light-hearted ode to coping mechanisms and relationships, the dancers explore our biological responses to the experiences of different emotions. The work also zooms out, to look at our life cycle and how our bodies, like all animals, begin to fall away and adapt with change.

“The dancers were each so graceful, so strong, such strong forces on the stage and this was complemented by the scarcity of props, allowing us to focus on their facial and bodily expressions without distraction.

The dancers of THE OTHER SIDE move together and separately, seeming to work together, yet compete against each other, to empathise, and then to struggle with each other, and in this piece, I felt more of a recognition of women and our daily lives of self and peer measurement, but teamwork, sympathy and empathy.

This made me really focus on how women work, play, relax and exist together, yet compete against each other, come back together, but need time alone as well. I can clearly see the journey from health to illness to recovery, thinking about the interactions and patterns of the performance.” - Alex McGee, Adelaide Fringe reviewer at Mindshare Magazine, March 2024

This work was presented at the Adelaide Fringe Festival 2024 as part of a double bill of contemporary dance. It was supported by the South Australian Mental Health Commissioner and by the Adelaide Fringe Festival as Liat was an Artist Grant Recipient. 

This work can be performed on a stage and at site specific locations.

Duration: 23 minutes

Choreographer: Liat Kedem

Performers: Clementine Benson, Sophia Van Gent, Grace Boswald

Sound: Jordan Moore

Producers: Lewis Major Projects and Liat Kedem