Silver Stocks
In 2017, Alice Dixon’s ruptured eardrum led to severe tinnitus and debilitating anxiety. Again, in 2023, a concussion temporarily impaired her cognitive function. These two traumatic bodily events and violent interruptions profoundly shifted the perception of herself and her environment.
Silver Stocks dwells in the aftermath. Where disruption, disorientation, and disturbance dredge up subconscious memory. Exploiting cinematic image-making and raw corporeal feeling the protagonist is spectator as the body becomes a site of rupture, persistence, and transformation.
CREATIVE TEAM
Alice Dixon – Choreographer and Performer
Geoffrey Watson – Performer
Robert Downie – Sound Designer
Jenny Hector – Lighting Designer
Sam Martin - Lighting Associate and Operator
PERFORMED IN-SEASON 2026 DANCEHOUSE
19 - 21 August 2026
https://www.dancehouse.com.au/whats-on/silver-stocks/
DOCUMENTATION
Photos - Jeff Busby
Video - Takeshi Kondo
“It is masterful. Pure theatrical dance bliss. Every image is perfectly calibrated and pitched. Every moment felt alive. Sensual, dark, unsettling and dementedly funny. I did not want it to end. This show is so sophisticated, every moment felt like looking through the lens of a camera held by David lynch or Billy Wilder. Seriously excellent dance. Seriously excellent theatre.”
- Stephen Nicolazzo (Theatre maker and director)
“Let the imagination loose, Silver Stocks is a reflective portal.”
“Their relational movements are like attempts to self-regulate, then self-taunt; like forcing oneself back into structure and then disintegrating.”
- Demi Fanning for Post-Performance.
“This work took me completely by surprise. I had seen pieces by both artists before -so came expecting elements of their humour and technical brilliance - but nothing prepared me for the layered complexity of Silver Stocks. With dance at the centre they referenced film, theatre, design and even domestic comedy to explore tangled relationships between themselves, themselves and their art, and us. Their humour drew us in, offered acknowledgement, even a moment’s pause, but no sooner did we settle then they took off. As audience we followed them into worlds once familiar, but here angled, askew, at times topsy turvy. It was funny and fascinating, dazzling, mad, utterly simple and beautiful. It’s a rare work. I came away excited and wholly fulfilled. “What art should be!” I thought.”
- Nancy Black (Theatre maker and director)
