Appetite is the newest work from multi-award winning contemporary performance company KAGE.

Combining original live music from acclaimed female vocalist New Buffalo and featuring KAGE's signature style - a fusion of dance, theatre and striking visual design - Appetite promises to be a genre-busting feast for the senses.

Propelled by the story of a woman on the eve of her 39th birthday, ambushed by her own sense of disquiet, Appetite tracks abundance against absence; consumption against nourishment; stimulation against content.

Searching for fulfilment. Craving meaning and reinvigoration.

Raised in relentless, groaning prosperity, in the dull succour of bright neon - with spoonfuls of excess - comes now a generation struck still with choice. Want for ruin. Want for breath and sunlight. Want for want.

Appetite balances delicately between the intellectual and the emotional, the verbal and the physical, the humorous and the horrendous - goading and provoking each audience's reaction.

So come. Remember what it is to taste. Break dry a palate with simple dish. Smack lips and chops. And hunger. Recall that first un-satiated lick at tit, and hunger once more.

Take to the table. You are invited.

KAGE
As co-directors of KAGE, Kate Denborough and Gerard Van Dyck's visionary partnership has sparked for a decade. KAGE creates stunning works of physical performance, recognised for extraordinary visual design, physical dexterity and humour. Since 1997, KAGE has launched dance-theatre into fresh territory, claiming international awards and recognition. KAGE strives to create work that's felt as often as it's explained. KAGE is about the subtlety of human experience; the millions of gigantic-yet-tiny, deeply felt, funny and ultimately connected moments that make up our lives - success, failure, awkwardness, panic, tears and reckless joy. Not quite dance. Not quite theatre. Not circus, or poems, or dreams; but like these.

KAGE's first major work No (Under)standing Anytime headlined the Next Wave Festival 2000, and remains one of the Company's signature works. Van Dyck's solo show, The Collapsible Man, premiered at Melbourne Fringe 2001, before touring to Sydney Opera House, Melbourne International Arts Festival and regional Victoria. Nowhere Man premiered at Melbourne International Arts Festival 2003 where it was awarded runner-up in The Age Critics' Awards. The Company's first work for children, The Day the World Turned Upside Down premiered in 2004. Punctuated by extreme physicality, irreverence, humour and adrenaline, Headlock premiered at Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne 2006. Headlock received Green Room Awards for: Best Concept and Realisation; Outstanding Ensemble Performance; Outstanding Production; Outstanding Direction; and nominations for Best Choreography and Outstanding Visual Design. Headlock was nominated for two Australian Dance Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Choreography (Kate Denborough) and Best Male Performer (Byron Perry).

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