In a rehearsal room out the back of Restless Dance Theatre’s Adelaide studio, Michael Hodyl is a lovelorn bowerbird, puffing up his chest and fanning his fingers like feathers. He smooths and preens his suit jacket in a kind of mating dance full of sweeping arm gestures and spins, before picking up a black cardboard box and launching its contents into the air.
As the slips of white paper flutter to the ground around him, Michelle Ryan, artistic director of Restless Dance Theatre, explains that each scrap contains a love note.
