Dance

The dance piece “Fault Lines” provides an intimate story of the life-changing consequences of a major earthquake, in which everybody involved knows exactly what they are saying or dancing. Each of the roughly 20 dancers lived through the earthquake in Szechuan (China) in 2008, which had a magnitude of 7.9 and caused 69,000 deaths. Sara Brodie (the choreographer of the piece) had a similar experience in the devastating earthquake in Christchurch (New Zealand) in 2010, which had a magnitude of 7.1.

Take a look at the video about the moving performance of “Fault Lines” (© Melbourne Festival).