Exquisite.

We highly recommend the trip to Melbourne Streets’ David Roche Gallery for the new ‘Dancer’ exhibition. We took about 45 minutes out of our morning to feel it — to absorb the rhythm, story, and soul that dance carries beyond the body.

“To dance with one body, one soul,” said Alfira O’Sullivan. Her words echoed through the space like a mantra, a gentle reminder that dance is not only a physical act but a spiritual expression — a language of belonging, resistance, and connection.

Marc Brew’s video in the exhibition was a powerful call to rethink limitation. “I couldn’t stop dancing just because I couldn’t use my legs,” he said, and in that simple, radical truth lay the essence of creative defiance. His work reshaped the very idea of choreography — showing how movement can rise from stillness and how artistry finds new form when we trust it to adapt.

From the walls to the performance floor, Nash of Bangarra Dance Theatre reminded us that “song, dance and visual art all exist together within one storyteller.” The exhibition honoured that truth — inviting us to consider not only the art we saw, but the cultural memory and identity embedded within it.

This was more than an exhibition. It was an invitation — to witness resilience in motion and to celebrate the many ways dance continues to tell who we are.

Even if like Eileen, we are still dancing at 105!