Silver Stocks
by Alice Dixon
— Spectating the aftermath
In 2017, Alice Dixon’s ruptured eardrum led to severe tinnitus and debilitating anxiety. Again, in 2023, a concussion temporarily impaired her cognitive function.
These two traumatic bodily events and violent interruptions profoundly shifted the perception of herself and her environment.
Silver Stocks dwells in the aftermath. Where disruption, disorientation, and disturbance dredged up subconscious memory.
Exploiting cinematic image-making and raw corporeal feeling the protagonist is spectator as the body becomes a site of rupture, persistence and transformation.
Lead Artist, Choreographer and Performer Alice Dixon
Performer and collaborator Geoffrey Watson
Costumes Alice Dixon and Geoffrey Watson
Lighting Design Jenny Hector
The development of this project has been supported by Dancehose and Chunky Move.
Special thanks to Phillip Adams, Helen Herbertson, Deanne Butterworth, Chimene Steele-Prior, Anna McDermot and Paul Cavezza.
Alice Dixon is a dancer, performer, choreographer, teacher and movement artist working across contemporary dance, theatre and experimental performance. Her practice spans devised performance, choreography and interdisciplinary collaboration. Alice has extensive performance credits with leading companies and artists, including Lucy Guerin Inc., Chunky Move (Antony Hamilton), Opera Australia, Reckless Sleepers (UK), Natalie Cursio, APHIDS, Deanne Butterworth,Philip Adams (BalletLab), Monica Bill Barnes & Co. (NYC). Recent performance highlights include Lucy Guerin’s retrospective NEWRETRO (ACCA, 2023), NEWRETRO REDUX (2024), international tours of Pendulum, and performing alongside Mish Grigor in Class Act at Sydney Opera House. Alice’s solo practice has been supported through national and international residencies, choreographic commissions and major arts funding bodies. Her works with collective alicewillcaroline have been presented at Dance Massive, Next Wave, FOLA, Dancehouse, Carriageworks, the NGV, and for the Keir Choreographic Award. They received the 2020 Green Room Award for Best Ensemble (Dance) and a Fellowship in 2022 from the late Chloe Munro. In 2024, they were Directors in Residence at Lucy Guerin Inc. and recipients of a bespoke residency at The Australian Ballet Centre.
Geoffrey Watson is a Melbourne-based artist whose work is rooted in choreography but has branches in wearable design, text, lighting, sculpture and photography. Through this work, Geoffrey advocates for a state of perceptual unrest: an agent to further confound the already confusing landscapes of art, history and reality. Geoffrey’s performance works include Camel (Arts House, 2016), Loving You Ad Nauseam (Trades Hall, 2016) DISTRACTION: Smackdown! (Melbourne Fashion Festival, 2017), DISTRACTION: T.C. F’d Up (Counihan Gallery, 2017), Geoffrey’s Corpse: Violet Spurlock (Uferstudios Berlin, 2019), Rachael Wisby (Newport Substation, 2019), and ongoing visual arts mission Reverse Fruit. As a performer, Geoffrey has worked with companies and artists including BalletLab, Nana Biluš-Abaffy, Lucy Guerin Inc. Lee Serle, Alisdair Macindoe, and Gekidan Kaitaisha. His costumes have been featured in Virgin Australia Fashion Festival, Melbourne Fashion Week, and in works by Lilian Steiner, Brooke Stamp, Matthew Bird et al.
Jenny Hector is a lighting and set designer who has developed a strong design aesthetic driven by her collaborations and the spaces they find themselves in since graduating from The Victorian College Of the Arts in 1992. Her work has been experienced nationally and internationally, most recently with Kamila Andini’s The Seen and The Unseen for Asia TOPA (Jakarta, Singapore and Melbourne), Sydney Chamber Opera’s The Howling Girls for Tokyo Festival World Competition 2019 and X-Risk, Kuopio Finland, collaborating with Madeleine Flynn, Tim Humphrey, Pekka Mäkinen, and Johanna Tuukkanen. She has designed lights for Paul Kelly and Paul Grabowsky- Meet Me In The Middle of the Air, Arts Centre-For Those About to Rock, Dark Mofo-Night Mass 2018 and Funeral Party 2016, Back to Back Theatre and The Theatre of Speed, Finucane and Smith-The Rapture, and Shanghai MiMI, Circus Oz-Aurora and From The Ground Up, Rimini Protokol- 100% Melbourne and 100% Darwin and Federation Square- Light In Winter. In Fragment 31’s Irony is not Enough, Parker’s Small Details and Shian Law’s Personal Mythologies, Jenny performed as part of the design. She developed a residential lighting installation, How Are You? that used light and colour to express the emotions of her collaborating neighbours, and through four of Hannah Bertram’s 24 Hr Drawing Projects, explored duration and colour through painting and counting. Her work for Fraught Outfit-Exodus II, Prue Lang -Stellar and Sandra Parker’s Out of Light were nominated for the Green Room best lighting. Jo Lloyd’s Overture, Jacob Boehme’s Blood on the Dance Floor and Jodee Mundy’s Imagined Touch received Green Room Awards for Best Production, for which Jenny realised both the lighting and set designs. Jenny is the recipient of two Green Room awards, for Balletlabs Miracle and Jenny Kemps Madeleine and received the 2016 Award for Technical Achievement.
