Splash and Leap! is an expressionistic, contemporary/ballet dance piece incorporating art influenced by the artist, Ashvin Harrison. Ashvin Harrison is an internationally renowned artist from Australia. He mostly works with coal and acrylic paint, combining them into drawings that are designed to capture the beauty of everyday encounters, feelings and fantasies. The first scene in Splash and Leap! features dancers dressed in white with a bare/white cyclorama. The dancers do simplistic, minimalistic movements symbolising a blank canvas.


In the scenes that follow a video of paint being splattered on a canvas is projected on the cyclorama. Every time a color is introduced on the can
The colors that appear on the canvas are merlot red, burgundy, bright red and gold shimmer (inspired by Ashvin Harrison’s work Glamorous Gala Dance).

The dancers move on the stage in the same shapes and lines that their paint has created on the canvas. Once all the paint has been splattered on the canvas the image projected on the cyclorama then zooms out to reveal a full image of a ballerina doing a leap (firebird) and the paint splatterings form her colourful tutu. All the dancers finish in the same pattern as the colourful tutu and the artwork is now complete.