Naupaca Dance Factory’s contemporary dance interpretation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland will attempt to translate the story’s Victorian quest for the origins of selfhood into an exploration of the materiality of the body.

Adopting a post-feminist stance, Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, which is being held at the Aurora Opera House on December 10, proposes to explore the sense of the abnormal and the unintelligible which resides within Wonderland, within the spaces that exist outside of the boundaries of normativity.

In Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, the choreography will strive to articulate unspeakable desires as non-human, ahuman and post-human bodies are unveiled and enlivened.

Creating a choreographic response, Naupaca Dance Factory will focus on attempting to create passages of movement, accompanied by and structured around textual, visual and musical material, in order to present a danced interpretation to Carrollian language and narrative.

The project will present dancers who will inhabit and identify with words and images, articulating through the body, through the ephemerality of dance, the literary and the symbolical.

There exists no literal translation of word for bodily movement, yet, the translation from the literary to the kinetic will occur through the medium of dance and abstract gesture.

Movement as staged spectacle is ulti-mately made up of fragments of time and space, gathered from the dance studio, recorded into the muscle memory of the moving body.

Avoiding the recognisable symmetry of classical ballet the choreography for this performance will present technical skill and facility as a means through which the written can be transformed into the visual, and the fantastical actualised.

This contemporary dance interpretation is being directed by Joeline Tabone.

Participating performers include: Deborah Agius, Yosef Farrugia, Dorian Mallia, Jasmine Buttigieg, Sandra Grech, Julia Camilleri, Monique Cauchi, Romina Grech, Rachel Galea, Anna Grech, Emma Farrugia, Hannah Theuma and Amira Schiberras.

• Tickets may be obtained from the Aurora Opera House by phone on 2155 9452 or 2156 2974, or from Naupaca Dance Factory by e-mail: contact@naupacadanceacademy.com