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University of Wollongong, Performance Space

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Movement can say so much more than words, stresses third year University of Wollongong bachelor of performance student Lucas Johnson.

From age 6, Johnson discovered movement and music were his favourite creative outlets.

"It was something I discovered on my own - I didn't want to go out and play in the dirt or with trucks - I was more into the creative side," Johnson says.

Ballet and contemporary dance most appeal to Johnson - with the crispness of ballet and the emotion of contemporary dance combining perfectly to convey a story on stage.

Now the former Vincentia High student has combined his passion for movement and music in his directing debut in Fallen.

The student production centres around the stories of six people who are struggling to comprehend their lives in an apocalyptic world.

"They've fallen but no-one's 100 per cent sure how they've fallen and we don't know how they came to be in this landscape of grey," Johnson says.

Fallen showcases the abilities of the cast, which include dance, slam poetry and the setting of monologue to live music, exploring themes of isolation, struggle and failure.

While the idea for Fallen has been growing in Johnson's mind for a few years, the end product is different to what he had envisaged.

"It's the process of production - it's a living, breathing thing," Johnson says.

"The idea always changes and morphs. It started different than what it's finished as."