Dance Australia

Dancing the cosmos

A fascination with how global events interact with our individual lives as humans is a recurring theme in her works.”

L AURA Boynes, an award-winning independent dance artist based in Western Australia, is one of 12 Australian artists commissioned to create original work for this year’s Perth Festival. She will present Equations of a Falling Body, which explores the unpredictability of our contemporary world, and the distant forces beyond our control that intervene in our everyday lives.

“I think of the

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