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reminiscing on moments from our eight performances of ‘At Sea’ by Cadi McCarthy (@cadi_mccarthy) as part of New Annual (@newannual) ✨🧡

Dancers:
Jannah Allen @jannahallennn
Jordan Bretherton @jrbretho96
Olivia Dah Dah Drumore @liv_drumore
Jacinta Durney @jacintalarosa
Zachary O’Donnell @zakari.yulu_gi
Kyle Ramboyong @kyle_ramboyong
Maddison Weiley @_mmaddison_

🎼: Zackari @zackari_watt and Howlin’ Watt

📸: @a_lou96 taken in Newcastle Ocean Baths by @catapult_dance

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Collaboration: Zachary O’Donnell and Graham Wilson

‘Da-.nc-.ing wi.-th T.h-.e Mountain.’

‘Da-.nc-.ing wi.-th T.h-.e Mountain.’ dives into the immersive carved landscapes of Creator Incubator Artist, Graham Wilson. Wilson’s carving practice and poem, ‘The mountain asked for a quiet word.’, is brought to life by Catapult Company Dancer, Zachary O’Donnell and Musician/Composer, Naomi Dart.

Praxis was supported by Create NSW, City of Newcastle, New Annual and Newcastle Art Gallery taken in Newcastle Art Gallery by @catapult_dance

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16 hours ago

“I used to plait my own hair ”

Zoe Monohan contemporary dancer & Bronte Naylor creative technologist.

Zoe Monohan and Brontë Naylor have developed a secret language of latency, transmorphic bodies and plaits of non-existent hair. The duo handballs the burden of “selfhood” onto the body standing closest.

Naylor uses human-centred design to further magnetise the performance through the use of code and signature layered-set-like imagery; the work traces an awkward, trying lineage of touch, love and intimacy.

‘I wanted the choreography to feel so intimate and unguarded that the audience almost questions whether they should be watching… “ Monohan

Thank you to everyone involved in Praxis’ sold-out season.

PRAXIS presented five new interdisciplinary collaborations, bringing together five Catapult choreographers and five visual artists from The Creator Incubator.

Thank you to Newcastle Art Gallery, Braddon Snape, and The Creator Incubator

Photo Credit: Ashley de Prazer taken in Newcastle Art Gallery by @catapult_dance

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Anatomy of a Stream
Jacinta Durney & Ellie Hannon

Anatomy of a Stream is a choreographic inquiry into what emerges when bodies, relationships and ecosystems move between states of flow and control. Movement of water becomes both material and metaphor, tracing the tensions between fluidity and constraint, transformation and adaptation.

Drawing on the concept of counter-mapping, artist Ellie follows a creek as it meanders from suburban forest to concrete urban channel. A sound work produced in collaboration with Clint Topic and textile installation become new forms of bathymetry, examining the changing characteristics of the creek’s infrastructures and ecologies. Field recordings of ripples, tumbling stones, submerged movement and industry form an abstracted visual and sonic language responsive to the creek’s shifting conditions.

Dancer Jacinta responds through an embodied exploration of algae, an organism that sustains aquatic life while also signalling ecological stress. Her movements shift between fluidity and constraint, performing currents, eddies and ripples alongside the pressures of altered waterways and human control.

Thank you to everyone involved in Praxis’ sold-out season.

PRAXIS presented five new interdisciplinary collaborations, bringing together five Catapult choreographers and five visual artists from The Creator Incubator.

Thank you to Newcastle Art Gallery, Braddon Snape, and The Creator Incubator

Photo Credit: Ashley de Prazer

Praxis is supported by Create NSW, City of Newcastle, New Annual and Newcastle Art Gallery taken in Newcastle Art Gallery by @catapult_dance

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3 days ago

essEnce of moVemEnt
JORDAN BRETHERTON (@jrbretho96) X MARLENE HOUSTON (@marlyhart)

‘essEnce of moVemEnt’ is a collaborative exchange between sculptor Marlene Houston and dancer Jordan Bretherton, where figurative form and embodied movement shape one another in an evolving dialogue.

Houston’s sculptures, created with a sensitivity to dance and the expressive language of the body, hold gestures that suggest joy, connection, and the quiet emotional currents shared across human experience. Each form carries an echo of movement — a moment suspended, waiting to be met.

Bretherton’s choreographic practice responds to these forms through touch, intuition, and attentive presence. In their contours, he encounters relational impressions familiar to many: traces of encounters, connections, and the subtle emotional imprints bodies accumulate over time. His movement extends the sculptures’ gestures, animating them into a living conversation.

Together, Houston and Bretherton create a space where stillness and motion coauthor meaning with a soundscape composed by Jett Everett (@jettybuoy), ‘essEnce of moVemEnt’ becomes a poetic reflection on how relationships shape us, how movement reveals what lingers within, and how dance and sculpture, in collaboration, can evoke a shared sense of joy, memory, and human continuity.

Thank you to everyone involved in Praxis’ sold-out season.

PRAXIS presented five new interdisciplinary collaborations, bringing together five Catapult choreographers and five visual artists from The Creator Incubator (@thecreatorincubator)

Thank you to Newcastle Art Gallery, Braddon Snape (@braddonsnape), and The Creator Incubator

Photo Credit: Ashley de Prazer (@ashleydeprazer): Jordan Bretherton and Marlene Houston

Praxis is supported by Create NSW (@creatensw), City of Newcastle (citynewcastle), New Annual (@newannual) & Newcastle Art Gallery (@newcastleartgalleryaustralia) taken in Newcastle Art Gallery by @catapult_dance

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7 days ago

Thank you to everyone involved in PRAXIS’ sold-out season at New Annual (@newannual).

PRAXIS’ presented five new interdisciplinary collaborations, bringing together five Catapult choreographers (@catapult_dance) and five visual artists from The Creator Incubator (@thecreatorincubator).

Thank you to PRAXIS Collaborators:
- Zoe Monohan (@zoemonohan) X Bronte Naylor (@brontenaylor)
- Jacinta Durney (@jacintalarosa) X Ellie Hannon (@ellie.hannon)
- Kyle Ramboyong (@kyle_ramboyong) X Doug Heslop (@mirrored_vacuum)
- Jordan Bretherton (@jrbretho96) X Marlene Houston (@marlyhart)
- Zachary O’Donnell (@milky_one_ther) X Graham Wilson (@graham_wilson_artist) X Naomi Dart (@cellist_naomi_dart)

Thank you to Newcastle Art Gallery (@newcastleartgalleryaustralia), Braddon Snape (@braddonsnape), and The Creator Incubator (@thecreatorincubator).

Photo Credit: Ashley de Prazer (@ashleydeprazer) - Witness: Doug Heslop and Kyle Ramboyong.

PRAXIS’ is supported by Create NSW (@creatensw), City of Newcastle (citynewcastle), New Annual (@newannual) & Newcastle Art Gallery (@newcastleartgalleryaustralia) taken in Newcastle Art Gallery by @catapult_dance

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8 days ago

Thank you to everyone that attended At Sea.

What a joy to perform at the Canoe Pool and at the edge of the ocean

Big shout out to all the Creatives and Collaborators:

Composers: Zackari and Howlin’ Watt

Dancers/Collaborators: Jannah Allen, Jordan Bretherton, Olivia Dah Dah Drumore, Jacinta Durney, Zachary O’Donnell, Kyle Ramboyong, and Maddison Weiley

Thanks to New Annual for commissioning this new work.

Thank you to the audience, who sat through all different types of weather to watch Catapult perform

Thank you to all the photographers that have sent us such incredible images from the work.

Hope to see you all soon!

Photo Credit: Peter Heidegger by @catapult_dance

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8 days ago

All At Sea @catapult_dance taken in Newcastle Beach by @catapult_dance

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13 days ago

by @catapult_dance

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15 days ago

We are so excited to premiere Praxis tonight to a sold-out season.

PRAXIS presents five new interdisciplinary collaborations, bringing together five Catapult choreographers and five visual artists from The Creator Incubator.

As you journey through Newcastle Art Gallery, you will discover five distinct artistic worlds—each created through the meeting of movement, visual art and shared creative practice.

PRAXIS Collaborations:
- Zoe Monohan and Bronte Naylor
- Jacinta Durney and Ellie Hannon
- Kyle Ramboyong and Doug Heslop
- Jordan Bretherton and Marlene Houston
- Zachary O’Donnell and Graham Wilson

Where: Newcastle Art Gallery
Dates: 1-3 October
Time: 7.30pm

Photo Credit: Joel de Carteret taken in Newcastle Art Gallery by @catapult_dance

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15 days ago

PRAXIS is SOLD OUT!!!!

PRAXIS takes over Newcastle Art Gallery!
New Annual 2026

PRAXIS presents five new interdisciplinary collaborations, bringing together five Catapult choreographers and five visual artists from The Creator Incubator.

As you journey through Newcastle Art Gallery, you will discover five distinct artistic worlds—each created through the meeting of movement, visual art and shared creative practice.

PRAXIS Collaborations:
- Zoe Monohan and Bronte Naylor
- Jacinta Durney and Ellie Hannon
- Kyle Ramboyong and Doug Heslop
- Jordan Bretherton and Marlene Houston
- Zachary O’Donnell and Graham Wilson

Where: Newcastle Art Gallery
Dates: 1-3 October
Time: 7.30pm

Photo Credit: Joel de Carteret
Praxis is supported by Create NSW, City of Newcastle, New Annual and Newcastle Art Gallery taken in Newcastle Art Gallery by @catapult_dance

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17 days ago

Catapult Dance at Canoe Pool. Dont miss the daily 8:00am performance by @catapult_dance

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