Blue Ceiling dance embraces environmentalism, imagination, interconnectivity, passion and quirk to peer into the mysterious corners of the universe. We make works about the natural systems of our planet and the universe, collaborating with researchers and scientists in many fields in our quest to bring abstract concepts into human form. We work with intergenerational casts of performers from a range of backgrounds to create contemporary dance, wherein contemporary isn’t a technique, but an approach that is expansive, inclusive and intersectional.
We aim to spark compassion and curiosity and to celebrate the mystery of discovery through rigorous and dynamic dance created for theatrical, site-specific and intimate performance settings.
Through creation, production, commissioning and touring of new dance and multi-disciplinary works and through the Imaginative Body Classes, Blue Ceiling dance uses the poetry of the body and of scientific language to describe our experience of the world through the lens of poetic naturalism.
Blue Ceiling dance was founded by Lucy Rupert in 2004, as an umbrella for her creative endeavours. She began choreographing as a way to explore and expand her potential as a performer and has maintained this drive as the company’s vision and scope has grown. Blue Ceiling dance has toured nationally and internationally, imaginatively and collaboratively staging evocative, quicksilver performances.
