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4︱ theoretical construct but rather an individual experience.” For Van Dijk, the questions, “Can I be myself?” and “What is forming who I am?” are the questions that bring theory into the physical realm. In what amounts to a political as well as artistic strategy, both bring the personal experiences of the individual performers to the fore. They construct spoken and physical texts that find their origins in the unique body and the eccentricities of personal history: in both the unity and fragmentation that “authentic” biography can provide. This material is then adapted and re-contextualised so that it can also exist in a poetic space, a space of melodrama and tragedy, of the idealised and the epic. This project is at once the view of the outsider looking in on a strange land as well as an internal vision of the country as experienced by individual Australians. At times an investigation into the clichés surrounding identity, at others a deeply personal experience of gender-division, contemporary courtship rituals, surprising discoveries around race, and the plurality of our subcultural modes of behaviour. In Complexity of Belonging, triviality and profundity jostle in a kind of Comédie humaine, a panorama of human stories; from internet dating and long-distance relationships to the intimacy of bodies huddling together under a vast Australian sky. Daniel Schlusser / Dramaturge and Translator Anouk van Dijk and Falk Richter Although creative marriages in the arts are not uncommon, those between choreographers and writers are rare, and the one between Anouk van Dijk and Falk Richter is unique. Through their fifteen-year partnership they have created a distinct and detailed language that is equally physical and verbal, encompassing to the same degree meaning and musicality in text and movement. Upon her appointment as Artistic Director of Chunky Move, Van Dijk invited Richter to develop a new collaboration in Melbourne. Bringing together four Australian organisations, C