Now here’s a unique festival experience. In Soliloquy, multi-award-winning musician Genevieve Lacey undertakes a radical re-invention of the solo recital. Subverting the hierarchy of traditional concert music presentation, the recorder virtuoso shares the stage with renowned contemporary dancer Stephanie Lake (in a thrilling rare performance) and 32 bodies moving in unison. 

This chorus of bodies will create a performance around Baroque composer Georg Philipp Telemann’s extraordinary Twelve Fantasias for Solo Flute. Working to simple directions – Soliloquy is all about listening – these bodies become a living part of the music, makers of a unique and enthralling ritual unlike anything you will have experienced before.

Created by Lacey, with director-choreographer Gideon Obarzanek (One Infinity, Sydney Festival 2019), dancer Lake (Manifesto, Sydney Festival 2023), lighting designer Niklas Pajanti and costume designer Harriet Oxley, Soliloquy urges us to reimagine our relationship to the past, to one another and to music itself. 

Performance note: 32 untrained dance participants will take part in the recital.

"Soliloquy is a revelation of the intimate, shared."

– Fjord Review

"Geneveive is so much more than a musician" 

"A spiritual and hypnotic experience."

– Dance Participant