Production still for "Skeleton Tree". L-R: Nicola Leahey, James O'Hara, Marlo Benjamin. Photographer: Pippa Samaya

Skeleton Tree

16 March 2019 – 23 March 2019 Beckett Theatre

Malthouse Theatre, Stephanie Lake Company,

Dance

In Skeleton Tree, Stephanie Lake draws inspiration from the punch and poeticism of funeral songs and dances for the dead, to create a powerful new work about the primary human experience that language constantly fails to articulate: the ecstasy of grief. With her signature virtuosic movement, Skeleton Tree is an exhilarating union of dance, music and theatre.

Skeleton Tree is part of Malthouse Theatre's Dance Massive 2019. This one of two moving experiences is a compelling political allegory, and a quest into the labyrinth of the human heart, come to life.

★★★★★
"A MONUMENTAL TALENT…LAKE’S WORK HARNESSES THE KINETIC ENERGY OF HER EXTRAORDINARY DANCERS TO ENDURING EFFECT"
— Time Out (for Stephanie Lake’s Colossus)