Drill down to cold, hard facts

THE Hobart winter can be cold and dark — and local youth dance company DRILL has created a new dance work to match.

DRILL’s major production for 2017 and its largest work to date, Cold Omens opens in the cavernous SeaRoad Shed warehouse on the Hobart waterfront tonight.

Cold Omens is the company’s darkest show yet, with the dancers — seemingly part human, part alien, part robot — exploring concepts surrounding climate change and our planet’s potential future if humans continue to live unsustainably.

But don’t go in expecting a traditional dance performance.

There’s no stage and no seats, with audiences instead asked to wander around the warehouse and share the space with the performers, standing as close or as far away as they like.

Led by choreographer Joshua Lowe, a troupe of 30 dancers aged 13-25 has been rehearsing three times a week since April to bring Cold Omens to fruition.

“This work is massive in terms of the venue, the themes, the size of the cast, and physical demands and amount of choreography we have asked of the dancers,” Lowe says.

DRILL presents Cold Omens in the SeaRoad Shed on Macquarie Point from 7.30pm tonight, tomorrow and Saturday.

For more information and tickets, go to www.drillperformance.com

It’s time to celebrate

A PARTY celebrating DRILL’s 10th anniversary, featuring excerpts from previous works, guest performances and more, will follow the closing night of Cold Omens on Saturday. See the website for details.