Valley.

"meditates on the human body’s relationship to landscape and the environment. Backley-Astrachan’s dancers personify icy archipelagos" 
Ana Harmon

First created as a solo in 2016, Valley has developed into an ensemble work. Valley is set on a frozen and desolate Arctic island where a small society of four co-exist. Solitude, vulnerability and sensuality are touchingly drawn through Omer’s choreography in this exquisite Sisyphean cycle.


​Premiere
July 2017
Duration
40 Minutes
Choreography and Performance
Allie Graham, Mathew Mizyed, Omer Backley-Astrachan, Sharon Backley-Astrachan.​
Lighting
Karen Norris, Frankie Clark.​
Music
Timothy Constable


Costumes
Dean Walsh
Rehearsal Director
Kay Armstrong
Photography
Heidrun Lohr
Support from
Idan Cohen, Melanie Berson
Presented at
Suzanne Dellal Center -  Maholohet (Summer Dance) Festival Tel Aviv;
Riverside Theatres (Parramatta) as part of Dance Bites Program - FORM Dance Projects.

PRESS

"Allie Graham, in a short red dress, has an hypnotic, astonishing solo."
Lynne Lancaster of Dance Informa, 2018


"Dancer Allie Graham opens the performance alone on a dimly lit stage, sensually undulating her spine to Australian composer Timothy Constable’s original score. She has a sultry yet soft expression, alert and vulnerable."
Ana Harmon, July 2017


"I remember dancer Allie Graham’s prolonged mesmeric undulating form emulating a powerful force of nature."
Vicki Van Hout, FORM Dance Projects 2018