ALIVE! 20 YEARS - 20 CHOREOGRAPHERS
Dancehouse Anniversary Season
20 June 2012 - 22 June 2012
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Dancehouse is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. The history of Dancehouse is first and foremost about people, the independent dance community that has built and contributed to its longevity.
We have invited 20 choreographers who worked and presented their work at Dancehouse during the past 20 years to remount up to 10 min. of a previous piece. This 'exercise' is a study on the ephemerality of dance, on the body memory and how passage of time affects and afflicts it, on the potential of dance to re-inhabit changing bodies and generate new meaning with old content. Further more, it is a broader reflection on what the contemporary body means and how it makes sense in our actual society.
With
Born in a Taxi, Deanne Butterworth, Alice Cummins, Nat Cursio, Russell Dumas, State of Flux, Luke Hockley, Christos Linou, Jo Lloyd, Shaun McLeod, Tracie Mitchell, Sandra Parker, Michaela Pegum, Dianne Reid, Phoebe Robinson, Paul Romano, Hellen Sky, Sally Smith, Peter Trotman, Tony Yap.
Teaser by: Canela Maldonado
Read the article in THE AGE (June 16 2012)
When: Wednesday 20 - Friday 22 June
Time: 6.00 - 10.00pm. (Program 1: 6.00pm; Program 2: 7.30pm; Program 3: 9.00pm)
Where: Sylvia Staehli Theatre, Dancehouse
Prices: Full: $15.00 per program / $40.00 full evening.
Concession & DH Members: $10.00 per program / $25.00 full evening.
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Alive! 20 Years - 20 Choreographers will be presented as a mini-festival. Each evening will consist of three programmed segments of dance, punctuated by by champagne fuelled interludes for gathering, discussing, musing and celebrating. Audiences are welcome to attend one, two or all three segments of the programming in any given night.
Program One, 6pm
Nat Cursio, Dianne Reid, Deanne Butterworth, Tony Yap, Alice Cummins, Tracie Mitchell.
Program Two, 7.30pm
Sandra Parker, Phoebe Robinson, Russell Dumas, Hellen Sky, Shaun McLeod, Peter Trotman, Christos Linou
Program Three 9pm
Jo Lloyd, Michaela Pegum, Paul Romano, State of Flux, Luke Hockley, Sally Smith, Born In a Taxi
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In the Clearing
Nat Cursio 2004
A predominantly poetic, partly narrative rendering of the loss of innocence: a young woman bears witness to her own demise.
Choreographer Natalie Cursio / Performer Fiona Bryant / Costume Shio Otani / Sound Pete Brundle
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Dance Path
Dianne Reid 2005
A solo performance set against an edited video archive which gathers footage from 22 independent artists from Dancehouse's rich history.
Artists featured in this video include Greg Dyson, Lou Duckett, Kim Vincs, Yumi Umiumare, Helen Herbertson, Ros Warby, David Corbet, Anne O'Keeffe, Elizabeth Keen, Viona Lowenthal, Rochelle Carmichael, Angie Potsch, and Nicky Marr.
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Twinships
Deanne Butterworth 2010
Two simultaneous worlds meet, the sonic and the physical, in order to challenge the way we observe and perceive people.
Choreographer-performer Deanne Butterworth / Sound Michael Munson
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Remember 'Mangone'
Tony Yap 1992
Originally a duet with Sylvia Staehli, Remember 'Mangone' recalls this 'duet' in Sylvia's absense… 20 years on the music has changed and Tony has changed…
Choreographer-Performer Tony Yap
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Where Our Edges Meet
Alice Cummins 2009
a research of the relationship between music and dance
place across the water
where sky, sea and land meet
something is being worked out
weathered by sky and ocean
marking bodies and time
Choreographer-director-performer, Alice Cummins / Sound Anita Hustas (live)
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Sure (film)
Tracie Mitchell 1997
A group of women in search of their future step into the darkness looking for a way through.
Choreographer-director Tracie Mitchell
Performers Nat Cursio, Jade Duffy, Shona Erskine, Emma Hamilton, Nicole Howard, Nicole Johnston, Jo Lloyd, Carlee Mellow, Katrina Phillips, Nicki Ventor
Original Music Georgina Veevers / Cinematography Mark Pugh.
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Document
Sandra Parker 2011
Document incorporates the results of an in-depth exploration of how choreography functions as a record of bodily memory.
Choreographer-Director Sandra Parker / Performer Rebecca Jensen
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Only Leone
Phoebe Robinson 2008
With it's title an anagram for 'lonely one', Only Leone explores the individual character; the lone figure through instinctive movement, responding to notions of isolation and the dynamic individual.
Choreographer-Director-Performer Phoebe Robinson / Sound Felicity Mangan and Sheldon King
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dance for the time being
Russell Dumas (ongoing)
dance for the time being is the presentation and continuous development of a new dance work through engagement in a regular sustained performance practice.
Choreographer-Director Russell Dumas / Performer TBC
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as it is…….. 92……94..95….02…05....07….012…
Hellen Sky
How do we remember, where we are?
Creators Hellen Sky and friends
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Cowboy Songs
Shaun McLeod 1997
An ironic and playful response to country and western songs in which masculinity is presented in rigid and cliched ways.
Choreographer-Director-Performer Shaun McLeod / Performer David Tyndall
Original Music Gary McKie / Costumes-Set Shio Otani
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The Skirts of Phrygos
Peter Trotman 1995
Oh, people of Phrygos, lift up your skirts and dance... Thus we enter the starry night-time of human consciousness, a world where myth still lives and reigns….
Choreographer-Director-Performer Peter Trotman
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Fiddle De Die + Terror of the Old
Christos Linou 1995/1998
Fiddle de Die explores the maelstrom of drug addiction and the HIV virus. Terror Of The Old examines the body through an ironic embodiment in the study of theological scriptures and abstracted rituals.
Choreographer-Director-Performer Christos Linou / Singer James Dibble
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Melbourne Spawned a Monster
Jo Lloyd 2008
An intimate look at the monster that lurks within, seen by the public, from a far, in a private place.
Choreographer-Director-Performer Jo Lloyd / Music Duane Morrison
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Lexicon for a Storm
Michaela Pegum 2011
Embodying shifts in presence from the familiar and intimate to the mysterious and extraordinary, Lexicon for a storm seeks to blur the perceptual divide between a performance ending and ordinary life resuming.
Choreographer-Director-Performer Michaela Pegum / Sound Soncha Iacono & Michaela Pegum
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remembering fragments of the past in the now…
(excerpts from Rapid + history of a particular it)
Paul Romano 2002/2010
An improvisation working with, well, remembering fragments of the past in the now.
Choreographer-Director- Performer / Paul Romano
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Plunge
State of Flux 1993
"Oh golly, I'm lost at sea"… Plunge revisits the first score that brought Martin, Wendy and Janice together, almost 20 years ago, as State of Flux, the Contact Improvisation community.
Choreographers-Performers Janice Florence, Wendy Smith, Martin Hughes
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The girl and the car (originally from The Dance Card)
Luke Hockley 2003
Since performing this solo in 2003 Luke has deepened his own investigation into voice, body and text. In The girl and the car he will focus on enriching the original solo with the things he has uncovered in his studio practice.
Choreographer-Performer Luke Hockley
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The Hard March
Sally Smith 1998
The Hard March provokes questions about identity, about the power of the individual versus group, about loneliness, isolation, dumb-sheep/mob mentality versus individual thought.
Director Sally Smith / Choreography Sally Smith + Donna Gabriel / Performers Sally Smith + special guests
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The End
Born in a Taxi 1997
Demonstrating the beginnings of Born in a Taxi's exploration into "character-dance" The End became a major work in their repertoire…
Choreographer-Director Penny Baron / Performers Penny Baron, Carolyn Hanna, David Wells, Nick Papas, Lynne Santos
