STRUT dance
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STRUT dance
Founded in 2002, STRUT dance is a support organisation for independent Western Australian dance. It is based in PerthPerth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
, at the King Street Arts Centre.
STRUT has a membership of around 70 professional contemporary Western Australian dance artists.
Rather than working as a company or a producer, STRUT offers infrastructure support to enable individual practitioners to create and produce their own work. STRUT supports a diversity of contemporary dance
Contemporary dance
Contemporary dance is a genre of concert dance that employs compositional philosophy, rather than choreography, to guide unchoreographed movement...
forms.
Recent works presented by STRUT include "The Tenants", "Four on the Floor" and "Dance #2".
STRUT also hosts international dance artists on exchange. In 2007 touring artists have included Didier Théron, Thomas Lehmen and Carol Brown.