On The Table – Season 2
run by Caitlin Dear & Rebecca Jensen
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On The Table is a weekly event for artistic exchange and collaboration run by Caitlin Dear and Rebecca Jensen.
Each week’s session is hosted by a different artist or collective who is invited to put something ‘on the table’ for everyone to unpack together. The program features artists working with different forms of dance, approaches to choreography, methods of bodily practice and relationships to movement. OTT highlights research, process, experimentation, and interdisciplinary practice.
OTT is free to attend and the artist hosting does not receive a fee. We encourage generosity in a weekly exchange of ideas, energy and time. If you are a dancer or curious about embodied practice and proccess, you are welcome to participate.
On The Table #1 (March — June 2024)
Monday 9 September, 6pm – Arabella Frahn-Starkie
Arabella Frahn-Starkie is a dance artist whose interest in the transmission of embodied practices and experiences has led her into dance archiving documentation. This session will be a choreographic workshop exploring the lived interface between the dancing body and its traces (photography, video, writing, drawing, memory). We will play with tools for using documentation as a stimulus for creation and, as naff as it sounds, connecting with our creative voice. Where do we put – and what do we do with – the narely accessed nostalgic baggage and detritus of media we create and carry?
Monday 16 September , 6pm – Kari Lee McInneny-McRae & Caitlin Dear
With a lived experience of crip body-minds, Kari and Caitlin will offer a collective community reading group to examine and discuss writings by disabled authors. We will read and rest together, in various constellations. We will dream about the forms a crip reading group could take. Non-disabled folks are welcome to join in by listening, reading and resting with us. Texts will be provided, though feel free to bring materials to share or read solo. Bring any items you’d like for your own comfort.
Monday 23 September , 6pm – TBA Shortly
(3 week break for Fringe)
Weekly sessions from Monday 7 October – Monday 2 December TBA Shortly
About On The Table:
Sessions range from workshops and in-progress performance showings to open artistic explorations. Artists might share choreographic material, a practice, an idea, a framework, a question, a score, a reading or any manner of provocation. Everyone is invited to take part in the tasks at hand. Participation can be as little or as much as desired and you are free to come and just watch.
On The Table is free to attend and everyone is welcome whether you’re a professional dancer or you’ve never danced before. Please wear comfortable clothing that you can move in and bring a water bottle.
For any questions or to submit an idea, please contact [email protected]
Instagram: @on.the.table.melb
