Choreographed, Produced and Performed by Caroline Meaden

Sound Design: Duane Morrison

Dramaturgy, Technical Operation and Producing support: William McBride

Visual Design: Caroline Meaden and William McBride with Ben Cobham and Rob McCredie

Presented at Chunky Move for the Melbourne Fringe Festival, 2026

Photographs by Jeff Busby, Promotional Image by Caroline Meaden and William McBride

Immacolata is a hypnotic dance work that draws audiences into an intimate, perceptual vortex. Like 'a spool of thread, tightening and unravelling all at once’, the work folds itself into a warped domestic scene. Dreamlike and faintly sinister, it wavers at the edge of no return.

"The clothes of my partner and I steadily pile up onto a chair in the corner of the room. Half-worn, semi-structured and rumpled, they obscure any semblance of formal clarity. I sit and look at it, and impulsively draw shapes - crossing over one another, around again, looping back, no end point, no rest for the pencil. I painstakingly colour in all the little misshapen teardrops, circles and triangles that I can identify, dropping in water to wash the colour around. Thus delineated, they assemble into grotesque and ungainly tumors - born out of the chair itself."

Emerging from a period of personal upheaval, Immacolata engages the body as a complex psychological and performative site, inviting audiences into a reflective encounter with purgatory, haunting and the buried living.

This work was realised through generous in kind support from Chunky Move, Lucy Guerin Inc Moving Forward Residency, bluebottle, Bundanon Artist Residency, Dance Cork Firkin Crane Ceist residency, and from all artists involved.

Event Page: https://www.melbournefringe.com.au/whats-on/events/immacolata

Review by Andrew Fuhrmann in the Age

Review by Paul Ransom - Dance Informa

Review by Gracia Haby - Fjord Review

Writing by Caroline Meaden published on the Lucy Guerin Inc Moving Forward Residents blog

Writing by Andrew Fuhrmann on Immacolata (previously titled ‘Broadcast’) work-in-progress showing at Lucy Guerin Inc, 2026: “… the work demonstrates a rare capacity to generate thought through movement, image, rhythm and atmosphere. Its spare domestic world – at once intimate, disquieting and psychologically charged – gives rise to a rich field of associations around melancholy, agency and ethical life.”