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PACT hosts...Happy Hour Plus! 2025

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ReadyMade Works is excited to announce the third edition of our partnered performance platform initiative 'PACT hosts...Happy Hour Plus!'. This annual platform is a version of our signature short works program, Happy Hour. Like the name suggests, it comes with additions - a different venue, bigger stage space,  more lights and technical capacity, more audience but with the same commitment to showcasing great Sydney independent dance and performance. 

Our 2025 'PACT hosts... Happy Hour Plus!' features work by Ivey Wawn, Mitchell Christie, and Valdi Yudibrata and Will Mak. It takes place at our partner venue, PACT centre for emerging artists in Erskineville.

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With limited seats available, you don't want to miss out – grab your tickets now!

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Date: Fri, June 13th - Sat, June 14th 2025

Time: 7:00pm  AEDT

Tickets: Tickets are $25 (full) and $15 (concession)

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Happy Hour is supported by Create NSW and City of Sydney.

Image Credit: Happy Hour Plus 2023, Nat Cartney

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Happy Hour is ReadyMade Works' signature short works program showcasing the extraordinary practices of Sydney's independent dance artists. Initiated by Linda Luke and Samantha Chester in 2016, Happy Hour is the platform for encountering the diverse and uncompromising work being made by local dance artists.

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ARTISTS:

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Ivey Wawn: Feeling in a triangle

Falling is a feeling 

Feeling with the eyes; feeling with the ears

A feeling that is persisting, transforming, dropping

Sound: Megan Clune

Image credit: Keelan O'Hehir

Ivey Wawn (1990) is a dancer living and working with choreography for a range of contexts in Eora (Sydney). Her experience primarily lies in live performance for theatres and galleries, but she has also made video and writing in other instances. Her work, and the work she has contributed to as a choreographer or performer has been presented and supported by institutions such as; Artshouse (VIC), Art Gallery of NSW (NSW), Carriageworks (NSW), Cementa (NSW), Museum of Contemporary Art (NSW), National Gallery of Australia (ACT), Next Wave Festival (VIC), Performance Space (NSW), RMIT Design Hub (VIC), Tate Galleries (UK), and UTS Galleries (NSW) among others. She has strong collaborative relationships with artists based in NSW, as well as working friendships with artists throughout Australia and abroad. In recent years splits her labour time between work as an artist and as a hospitality worker in her restaurant Fontana, which she owns and operates with friends in Redfern. 

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Mitchell Christie: Off the Map  

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Off the map is the beginnings of a new solo work attempting to provide the best route to get from here to there. Exploring anatomical avenues, distance as a rhythm and temptation of the shortcut. If the map is removed you are left only with directions. 

Mitchell Christie is an independent dancer, maker and educator. Growing up on Dharawal Country (NSW south coast), he moved to New York to continue his dance education at SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance, receiving his BFA in 2017. Mitchell is an authorised Cunningham Technique® teacher and a passionate advocate for accessible dance practices. He now lives and works on the lands of the Gadigal and Dharug (sydney) and is a member of Dance Makers Collective’s artistic directorate. 

Sound: Vatican Shadow

Image Credit: Sina Lesnik 

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Valdi Yudibrata and William Mak: Within 

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A movement piece exploring the tension between opposing selves. Dancers shift between control and release, silence and eruption- speaking louder than words. Identities blur, resist, and echo through the body.

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Valdi’s journey connects him to his cultural heritage and the roots that shaped him. Will, on the other hand, continues to search inward—seeking a deeper understanding of self through immersing in a culture he wasn’t born into, but has come to honour and respect as part of his own journey.

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This work explores identity beyond birthplace, tracing the layers of history, memory, and movement that inform who we are. Through the language of street dance, we embody this shared journey—merging movement with existence.

Together, they move not from a place of certainty, but of curiosity—because there is still more to learn, more to feel, and more to become.

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Valdi and Will bring over a decade of experience in street dance culture. Both rep Alpha Fam, with Will also coming from Furious Crew. Will showcases a strong foundation in Popping and Krump, known for his emotive movement rooted in culture and community. Valdi began with Jerkin before exploring Krump, Choreography, and Popping, and has recently reconnected with his heritage through traditional Indonesian dance with Suara Indonesia.

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