Catapult: OUTBOUND
Catapult Dance Choreographic Hub in partnership with PACT Centre for Emerging Artists.
Catapult Outbound is an initiative that extends Catapult’s Propel residency program into metropolitan spaces, offering artists the opportunity to present new work to wider audiences and connect with metropolitan-based organisations.
In 2025, Catapult partners with PACT Centre for Emerging Artists to present a double bill featuring two powerful new works by emerging artists, developed through Catapult's Propel residencies:
Please… continue?
By Remy Rochester and Angus Onley
‘Please… continue?’ is an experimental contemporary dance work that navigates the ever-shifting dynamics between two people and their world. Blurring physical theatre and contemporary dance, the work weaves pedestrian nonchalance with complete abstraction to create its vibrant, surreal landscape. Reality bends, expectations unravel, and meaning constantly reshapes itself. With its playful storytelling and disorienting movement, ‘Please… continue?’ is a heartfelt homage to the richness of not-knowing, and to the absurdity of our everyday.
Palyku Ngurra Dance
By Maddison Fraser
Palyku Ngurra Dance (Palyku - Nyiparli Language Group) is a solo dance work that follows a journey of reconnection to Culture and Country. Using hair as a conduit for the intertwined threads of DNA and familial bonds passed down from her Mothers. This deeply personal exploration of womanhood, resilience, and belonging weaves together themes of maternal heritage and the longing to return to the land of her ancestors.
Join us for two evenings of bold contemporary dance and up-and-coming choreographic voices.
Show Dates/Times
Friday 20 June – 7:00 pm
Saturday 21 June – 6:30 pm
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Remy Rochester is a contemporary dancer, choreographer, educator and physical theatre artist based in Sydney. She has worked extensively as a performer with iconic Australian companies including Opera Australia, Legs on The Wall and Catapult Choreographic Hub. She has performed works of multiple independent artists including Stephanie Lake, Omer Backley-Astrachan, Eliza Cooper and Anton Projects. Her debut choreographic work LOVE ARENA (2024, in collaboration with Jazz Luna), received critical acclaim including 'Best in Dance' in Sydney Fringe Festival's Weekly Shortlist. Her most recent collaboration with Angus Onley, ‘Please…continue?’ took home the ‘Audience Choice’ award at FORM’s choreographic competition, DUELS.
Remy trained at Sydney Dance Company's Pre-Professional Year 2019-2020, and since graduating has worked with the company as a Teaching Artist.
She is a recipient of the Emerging Creator Fellowship from Catapult Choreographic Hub, The Ian Potter Cultural Trust Travel Funding, and Legs On The Wall Menteeship
Angus Charles Onley is a multidisciplinary artist working in forms of Dance, Theatre, Visual art, and Performance art. Based in regional nsw, Angus currently works with a variety of independent practitioners across Melbourne and Sydney. Training at Sydney Dance Company's Pre-professional Program, and Flying Fruit Fly Circus prior to that, he has an eclectic palette of skills and practices that have since been developed through workshops, conventions, and intensives worldwide.
Maddison Fraser is from the Palyku and Yindgibarndi Tribes in the Pilbara of Western Australia. Growing up on Wajuk Land in Perth, Western Australia all her life and she has now moved to Darkinjung Land on the Central Coast of New South Wales. Maddison has completed her studies at NAISDA Dance College obtaining her Advance Diploma. She has completed industry placements at Critical Path with Jasmin Sheppard, Jasmine Gulash and Vicki Van Hout unpacking and investigating Indigenous Dramaturgy through a series of workshops. She has performed with Catapult on Hysteria and for Darwin Festival on Song Spirals, working with renowned choreographers such as Angie Diaz, Deon Hastie and Sue Healy. She looks forward to sharing her dance and stories with you.
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PACT is an accessible venue, with level access throughout the public areas of the building and non-gendered, ambulant and wheelchair accessible toilets. There is accessible (non-dedicated) street parking on Railway Parade. The nearest accessible train stations are Erskineville (5 minutes) and Newtown (15 minutes).
PACT supports the Companion Card Program. Contact us directly during office hours for assistance with your booking; the companion ticket must be booked at the same time as the purchased ticket.
We encourage you to contact us at info@pact.net.au with any access questions and to discuss your requirements with us.
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By train: Erskineville Station (250m), Newtown Station (900m), and Macdonaldtown Station (1km)
By bus: 355 Bus Stop (250m); Newtown (900m)
By taxi: Erskineville Road Taxi Stand (300m)
By car: Railway Parade has unlimited free street parking
Catapult is proudly supported by Create NSW and assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body.
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PACT is proudly supported by City of Sydney.
PACT is proudly supported by Create NSW and assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body.
PACT is supported by Creative Australia.