Now Pieces #4 – Notes on Lineage
Curated by Amaara Raheem
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Now Pieces continues a long standing disciplined exploration of embodied performance practice that leads to crafted, spontaneous and artful communication made on-the-go. On four Tuesdays across the year, Now Pieces offers an improvisational performance evening at Dancehouse dedicated to low-fi public performances curated by and featuring local dance luminaries. With each iteration an invited curator or collective will host and program Now Pieces following the seasons.
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About Now Pieces #4:
The long disciplined process of becoming a dancer is connected to a narrative. And yet, dance is something other than that. It’s a microorganism, the ancestral root of every culture in our world, communicating beliefs, values, prophecies, edges and mysteries too expansive to put into words alone. There’s multiple means and ways of improvising, becoming an improvisor and talking about improvisation.
December Now Pieces offers movement, sound and words that emerge from margins and communities connected to roots, routes.
Act I: Amaara Raheem & Peter Trotman
Act II: Efren Pamilacan & Pataphysics
Act III: Mick Douglas, Janette Hoe, Bruce Mowson & Amaara Raheem
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Amaara Raheem (b. Sri Lanka) is a dance-artist whose work crosses many borders. She was a Lead Co-Curator of Now Pieces and The Finale (2021) at Dancehouse–along with Kevin Jeynes–and loves to make interdisciplinary platforms for improvised performance, amongst other things.
Peter Trotman (b. Naarm) is a performance improvisation artist who explores the entangled sinews of movement and language as they emerge in the present moment. An ongoing project has been the progressive evolution of a map of developmental strategies and forms, always searching for what is useful, clarifying, challenging, and generative.
Janette Hoe is a dance artist who is curious about the potential of dance as open dialogue across cultures. Grounded in Butoh, her practice explores the psychophysical and ‘archival’ body, integrating visual, gestural, and material elements. Currently working on a long-term autobiographical project, KuehLapis, she examines the ageing body at significant thresholds in a woman’s life, exploring themes of unpredictability, vulnerability, and belonging.
Bruce Mowson is an Australian artist focused on sound, participation and embodiment. Since 2010, his immersive installations and performances explore how sound shapes physical experience, inviting audiences to engage deeply with auditory environments and contributing to contemporary sound art.
Mick Douglas’ diverse art practice involves forms of performance, installations, video sound and text, socially engaged art activism, curated collaboration platforms and expanded exhibition initiatives. Since 2019 he has lived on unceded Djab Wurrung & Jardwadjali Country in an ancient granite landscape, where he inhabits ‘unsettling station’, a project of relationship-entangled place-based living.
Efren Pamilacan is a dancer of Filipino heritage settling on the unceded lands of the Kulin nation. A contributor to the 9DIMES collective, founder of City Sessions and has been part of the Hip hop dance community for over 15 years.
Patrick Marks aka Pataphysics is a music producer, multi-instrumentalist, engineer, writer and facilitator. He applies innovative improvisation techniques within performance and production, and alternative approaches within experimental arts practice working in various institutional and grassroots community settings. A Mercury Prize-winning songwriter for his work with Speech Debelle (Ninja Tune), he has produced, written and collaborated with artists such as Stic.Man (Dead Prez), Rob Swift (X-ecutioners), Kaiit, Kee’ahn, DRMNGNOW, Hau Latukefu, 360, Adrian Eagle, Lotek ft.Roots Manuva, as well a host of other artists and projects.
