Ditching choreography in the name of dance

WHAT is dance? And can a theatre director better examine that question?

RE/PLAY Dance Edit, a TheatreWorks co-production with Offsite Dance Project (Japan) challenges ideas of whether it's just harmonised movement to music, or more.

In his dance, six dancers will each choreograph their own movements and keep on repeating them, and the other "rule" is that they're not allowed to interrupt or interfere with another dancer's movements.

"Within this rule they can be as spontaneous as they want," explains Junnoka Tada, the artistic director of his own company, Tokyo Deathlock, since…