DANCE (LENS) MINI 2024
A taster screendance program ahead of Dance (Lens) Festival 2025

Join Dancehouse for an exciting taster of screendance installations, talks, workshops and a Scratch Night as part of Dance (Lens) Mini 2024 and as the lead-in to the biennial Dance (Lens) Festival in July 2025.
This Dance (Lens) Mini, we welcome the installation of Sue Healey’s moving celebration of Australia’s pioneering women in dance ON VIEW: ICONS. Launching with our Moving Portraits opening event with an in-conversation with Sue Healey, Siobhan Murphy, Cobie Orger and Alice Cummins and the screening of terra by Cobie Orger, and Doing the Work by Siobhan Murphy.
The inaugural Dance (Lens) Scratch Night will share works-in-progress of new screendance works for feedback, and as always, Dance (Lens) Mini features three spectacular Dance (Lens) Workshops with Sue Healey, Siobhan Murphy, and Cobie Orger.
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Scratch Night
4pm & 6pm, Tuesday 26 November 2024
FREE
Calling all screendance artists! This is your chance to get fresh eyes on new work.
For the inaugural Dance (Lens) Scratch Night, Dancehouse is delighted to invite screendance makers and enthusiasts to a special informal event to share screendance rushes, first cuts, scores, and experiments of new works in development and receive feedback from fellow artists and audiences.
Scratch Night will offer two sessions with artists showing no more than 6 minutes of screening material/ rushes/ cuts or drafts.
Each session is hosted by resident Dance (Lens) leaders Siobhan Murphy and Cobie Orger.
Expressions of Interest for Scratch Night are now open and close 11.59pm, Thursday 7 November 2024
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Dance (Lens) Mini: Moving Portraits opening event
6pm, 27 November 2024 Sylvia Staehli Theatre
FREE
To launch Dance (Lens) Mini, join four screendance artists in Moving Portraits, a conversation and screening about dance, film, and portraiture, and the history and legacy of Australian women in dance.
Throughout the discussion, Moving Portraits will include screenings of Doing the Work (2024) by Siobhan Murphy, terra (installation 2024) a work by Cobie Orger with Alice Cummins. From 7pm, ON VIEW: ICONS by Sue Healey will screen.
In Conversation: Sue Healey, Siobhan Murphy, Cobie Orger, and Alice Cummins.
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ON VIEW: ICONS
4-7pm, 28 — 30 November 2024
Sylvia Staehli Theatre
FREE / BY DONATION
For Dance (Lens) Mini, Dancehouse is proud to present award-winning choreographer and filmmaker Sue Healey’s ON VIEW: ICONS.
Across six brilliant screendance portraits, experience a moving celebration of some of Australia’s pioneering women in dance including: Lucette Aldous AC, Elizabeth Cameron Dalman OAM, Nanette Hassall AM, Eileen Kramer, Elma Kris, Shirley McKechnie AO.
ON VIEW: ICONS is presented as a 3-channel video installation with a 1 hour duration. The installation will loop, beginning on the hour every hour, in the Sylvia Staehli Theatre at Dancehouse during the screening times.
Audiences may come and go as they please.
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Dance (Lens) Workshops
11am-3pm, Thursday 28 November | MASTERCLASS with Sue Healey
11am-3pm, Friday 29 November | RHYTHM with Siobhan Murphy
11am-3pm, Saturday 30 November | EDIT-LAND with Cobie Orger
For Dance (Lens) Mini 2024, Dancehouse is delighted to offer a suite of exciting workshops for existing and aspiring screendance artists to help polish, perfect, and inspire your creations.
Featuring three local screendance specialist artists: Sue Healey, Siobhan Murphy, and Cobie Orger, these three in-person workshops build and refresh skills and creative strategies.
Both dance and film artists are welcome. And all screendance-making experience is accommodated including both new artists to screendance, as well as those currently creating work.