100BPM - Ballarat
Ballarat Performing Arts Centre
100BPM is a contemporary dance work by Mexican-Australian choreographer Elena Osalde, built from the everyday and ancestral gestures of the dancers who perform it.
The work takes its inspiration from the pulse, the one rhythm every person shares. Osalde developed it in collaboration with an ensemble whose cultural ancestries span 14 countries, among them Mexico, Nigeria, Japan, India, Turkey and Scotland. Each dancer drew on their own heritage, lived experience and movement history, and those gestures are combined into ensemble movement that shows what makes each performer distinct and what they have in common.
Osalde's work has been presented at Dancehouse, Federation Square, Bold Festival, Hillscene Festival and Melbourne Fringe.
100BPM plays at Fringe Encore: Ballarat, as part of the 2026 Melbourne Fringe Festival.
