Performer
Granite, Hong Kong Australia Exchange
Liesel Zink
Supercell: Festival of Contemporary dance 2018
Granite is a durational performance installation arising from an artistic and cultural exchange between two Hong Kong and two Australian dancers. The four artists spend time together with 100 kilograms of white granite fragments exploring the body in shifting landscapes and reflecting upon meanings we draw from placing the body at the centre of this mass material.
Antithesis
Melissa Lanham
“Artist in Residency” Pilot Program The Event Centre, Creative Spaces SC and LJ Projects 2018
Antithesis is based on the scientific notion that the universe is made of energy. While energy waves can be measured and their effects seen, they are however, not a material reality. To make ‘visible’ these concepts, the artists delved into mathematics and science to explore how matter, energy, space and time interplay when opposing or harmonising forces are imposed on them.
Creative Development of The Raft
Josh Thomson and Gavin WebBer
Legs on the Wall 2018
Flying through the air on a huge swinging apparatus unharnessed, Legs tackles big issues and urgent Australian stories through epic physical theatre. Creators Legs AD Joshua Thomson & QLD’s Gavin Webber (The Farm) collaborate across state borders to craft universally relevant & courageous work The Raft.
Planets
Michael Smith and Andy Bates
Flowstate – South Bank Corporation 2018
Planets is a participatory performance art work that facilitates connections between people, places and objects. Onlookers can observe the spectacle of light created by the participants as they ripple and pulse across urban landscapes. Throughout the performance, an unspoken dialogue begins to unfold as the planets, participants and performer connect to transform the space around them.
NOF A Celebration of Landscape Exhibition Launch
Solo performance
camden markets, london 2018
Site-responsive solo performance in collaboration with musician Ariel Armoni.
Five week research and development of Dance and Digital
Jo Cork (UK)
chisenhale Dance Space, London 2017
During this research and development period Jo created choreographic content with specific consideration to choreography for camera and explore how her visual ideas about editing and post-production influence, intertwine and interact with the studio-based choreographic process. She worked with cinematographer Orestes Chochoulas and sound designer Bartosz Szafranski.
GIF of Dance
Matt Cornell
2017
GIF of Dance is interested in hyper-distributed, non-geographically exclusive, time shiftable, live performance of dance and choreography and driven to making choreography (and its performance) as integrated into the tapestry of everyday life as any other digital notification, working to erode even those ‘legitimising’ frictions/barriers-to-engagment that only actually serve to exclude certain classes or communities from art.
Vincent – The Show
Melissa Lanha, LJ Projects
Horizon Festival 2017
'The National Gallery in London holds a painting of Sunflowers by Vincent Van Gogh. This was the first painting that I have always gravitated too. Looking at the painting in real life is a sight to behold. Van Gogh leaves the edges sparse and raw so that you see the underlying canvas, colours and brush strokes thick with paint. The painting moves you inwards, from the rough warn edges to the thick, swirling centre. Looking at his work up close is quite an emotional experience and forces you to see this man’s life in its reality – it was then that I knew his life was a project I wanted to create through dance.' Melissa Lanham - Artistic Director
They Gather
Joseph Lau and Bridget Fiske
Supercell: Festival of Contemporary Dance 2017
Responding to shared and personal need, crisis and underbellies of now, ‘They Gather’ creates gatherings: in vulnerability, in celebration, to be heard, to find meaning.
Nick Cave’s The Heard Brisbane
Nick Cave
Sugar Spin QAGOMA 10 2016
In the electrifying Heard by American sculptor and performance artist Nick Cave, a group of vibrant sculptural horses brought to life by dancers.
The Stance
Liesel Zink
Performance Space’s Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art 2016
The Stance at Performance Space’s Liveworks Festival in Sydney was presented as a five hour durational performance in amongst the Eveleigh Markets farmers markets on a Saturday morning. For the three evenings leading up to the full performance we also conducted one hour experimental performance installations inside the Carriageworks Foyer.
angel-monster
Nerida Matthaei
Phluxus2 Dance Collective 2016
angel-monster is a new contemporary dance installation in development, unpacking what it is to be female. An all female cast of collaborators, led by Nerida Matthaei, invite you to enter a discussion. Do you see her lillies and lotuses... or is she the dragon?
FLAUNT V2.0
Claire Marshall Projects
Queensland regional tour 2016
Flaunt is about women and power.
Flaunt was exploring women’s gender, sexuality and power, and how it can be ‘socially inscribed’ on the body – like a magnetic inscription on a tape, which repeats and repeats and then eventually runs out.
Flaunt was examining what women project about themselves, and how women are socially conditioned to police each other’s ‘acceptable’ images.
Flaunt was investigating established tropes of women under glass, in the glass and the objectified and deconstructed body.
Flaunt V2.0 Image by Marc McCormack
PeepDance - The Body is the Last Space for Freedom
Tami Dance Company Nimrod Freed
The 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale, 2012
In PeepDance: The Body is the Last Space for Freedom the audience is invited to peep into 3-5 different dance performances in 3-5 peeping cells to the same music, challenging traditional viewing structures for dance-theatre. The peeping cells are scattered in public spaces and are in dialogue with the chosen urban/natural public space. The audience creates a colourful and charged peeping village, which completely changes the space, imbuing it with new aesthetics and meaning.
