Dance (Lens) Mini: Moving Portraits opening event
With Sue Healey, Siobhan Murphy, Cobie Orger and Alice Cummins in conversation
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.
Screenings:
terra (installation), (2024), by Cobie Orger with Alice Cummins (10 mins)
Doing the Work (2024), by Siobhan Murphy (11 mins)
ON VIEW: ICONS, by Sue Healey (60 min loop)
terra (installation) (2024)
by Cobie Orger with Alice Cummins (11 mins)
terra (installation, 2024) is inspired by the live work of the same name by influential choreographer/performer/
Original Concept & Performance: Alice Cummins
Director of Photography: Cobie Orger
Edit: Cobie Orger with Alice Cummins
Sound: Tilman Robinson
Lighting Technician: Peter Young
Production Support: Paea Leach
Doing the Work (2024),
by Siobhan Murphy (11 mins)
Doing the Work shows three women at different stages of their dancing lives, grappling with objects that variously extend, augment and complicate the dance.
Director: Siobhan Murphy
Performers: Paea Leach, Siobhan McKenna and Alice Cummins
Sound: Dominic Redfern
Camera: Dominic Redfern, David Meagher and James Wright
Colour Grade: Keiran Watson-Bonnice
Camera Assistant: Shang Lien
SUE HEALEY is a critically acclaimed artist working in the fields of performance, installation and film. Her work draws its inspiration from dance as a transformative and poetic language yet transcends the boundaries of the form, revealing the universality of movement. With extensive experience in choreographic practice and cross-artform investigation, Healey moves seamlessly between dance, film and installation. Her work investigates the potential that lies at the shifting boundaries between disciplines, and the revelations that are sparked at those intersections. Critically, movement is at the heart of each of the works. Her recent practice explores portraiture of dance artists across Asia and Australia. Sue was the recipient of the 2021 Australia Council Award for Dance. Her work is aesthetically unique and relevant to a wide demographic, across age and interest. It is witnessed in a diversity of contexts and spaces; galleries, public spaces, screens and theatres.
SIOBHAN MURPHY is a choreographer and academic based in Naarm, Melbourne. Her practice focuses on screendance works for single channel and gallery installation outcomes, with works screened in festivals and museums in cities throughout Australia and New Zealand, as well as London, Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Lisbon and Edinburgh. Her recent scholarly and artistic research centers on dance portraiture, with her portrait of Joanne White at the London International Screendance Festival in 2019, and her portrait of Alice Cummins at Dance (Lens) in 2021. Her article on screendance portraiture examines the productive counterpoints of the portraiture tradition and builds toward an emergent framework for understanding how screendance portraits function. Siobhan teaches and supervises in dance studies, screendance and artistic research.
COBIE ORGER is an interdisciplinary artist working across forms including dance, video, sound and installation. Her interest lies primarily in the integration of forms and creating methodologies that utilise and mash up the creative languages at hand. Her work has been presented locally and abroad and has often stemmed from residencies at places such as Bundanon, Bogong Centre for Sound Culture, Dancehouse, Critical Path, Les Baines Connective and Cultuurcentrum Berchem. Her practice often involves collaborations with artists from the visual arts, music, theatre, and dance, and generates work that can exist as intimate viewing encounters, through to large scale, participatory community events. Cobie also documents a large number of live performances/events throughout Melbourne’s (usually) creative landscape and has shared this knowledge along with video editing techniques with tertiary students at the VCA and members of St. Martins Youth Theatre.
ON VIEW: ICONS is supported by Creative Australia, Create NSW, and Tobi Wilkinson and Rob Keldoulis.