BUNNY is the result of a three-year exchange between two highly esteemed artists from different parts of the world, drawn together through Campbelltown Arts Centre’s Intercultural Dance Project, a key component of the Centre’s Contemporary Dance Program.

BUNNY is a unique and experimental contemporary dance piece blending techniques and inspiration from NYC vogueing and Shibari, a Japanese practice of rope bondage and knottying. Developed over a series of residencies, BUNNY first emerged in 2014 through a lab style double-bill premiere of two solo works, ‘Not About Face’ (Luke George), and ‘The Gay Romeo’ (Daniel Kok) and 2-week artistic exchange program at C-A-C, where the artists, who hadn’t worked together before, examined and deconstructed the processes of ‘collaboration’.

For the 6 months prior, the artists had been corresponding via online video diaries to establish initial starting points for their residency. The artists half-jokingly approached the residency as a kind of ‘blind date’, which later formed the basis of artistic investigation and social/cultural exchange and proposal for collaboration – BUNNY.

BUNNY premiered for the first time in Australia at C-A-C in 2016 and is the result of the experiences and materials generated over each stage of the three-year project. The work was extremely well received and attended at full capacity across two shows in an ‘in-the-round’ format within C-A-C’s performance studio, held at Campbelltown Arts Centre on 22 and 23 January 2016. The performance was a durational piece lasting 2.5 hours. Audiences were welcome to come and go during the performance, or change viewing positions throughout the performance. The performance was extremely well received, with 148 people attending over the two shows. The show received a positive review in the Sydney Morning Herald on 15 January 2016.