On The Table – Season 1
run by Grey Dear & Rebecca Jensen
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Image courtesy of On The Table
On The Table (OTT) is a weekly event for artistic exchange and collaboration run by Grey (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 (April — June 2025)
Monday 7 April, 6pm – Emily Simek
Emily Simek is an artist and gardener who provides technical support for WORLDWIDEWORMS.NET, an online space for peer-led publishing of draft, in-progress or adjacent creative work. The space approaches publishing and website maintenance through the lens of a community garden.
In this session we will experiment with how to web working bee through reading and co-writing within a shared web application. WORLDWIDEWORMS.NET’s working documents are on the table to compost, prune, fertilise, turn-in, and otherwise add tasting notes to. If convenient, please bring along a laptop.
Monday 14 April, 6pm – Rebecca Jensen
This session will look at the role of the referee in professional wrestling (WWE style). Rebecca will propose a durational physical score which we will do together. Through movement, conversation and reading, we will explore ideas of inaction, extended time, calling the shots when the script is already written, Kayfabe and grandiloquence of gesture.
This is part of a larger project, Embryonic Punch, working with professional wrestlers and dancers in Aotearoa.
Monday 21 April, 6pm – Easter Break
No session.
Monday 28 April, 6pm – Oliver Savariego
In this session, Oliver will share his practice ‘Playtime’; a state-based improvisational mode that draws upon childhood memory, paediatric psychology and early-learning principles.
We will do away with learned dance techniques and aesthetics, and strip away judgement. Oliver will facilitate guided improvisation, reflective discussions and task-based choreographic applications, all aiming to unlock wonder, joy and new movement potentials.
Monday 5 May, 6pm – Erin O’Rourke
Can we find hope in our rage? In this session, Erin will share material from her new project that explores rage as a force for change, healing, and liberation.
Erin is exploring gendered, particularly feminine anger as an inherited, ancestral response to generations of oppression. Yet, also as something fetishized, misrepresented in pop culture, and dismissed as hostility or cattiness.
Monday 12 May, 6pm – Charlie Lee
This session is about waste. Enchanted trash, beautiful rubbish, cheeky objects… Together we will try and bring things to life with promiscuous narrations, movement, music, spatiality and lighting. Bring along any items you’d like to dump.
Join artist and costume designer, Charlie Lee, in questioning what performance looks like in the absence of human agents. Perhaps if we direct our attention to the more than human, we can break down what “human” even means. w3 r all tra$$$hhhh!! th1s w0rkshop will be ##rubb1sh////
Monday 19 May, 6pm – Zack Lewin
Details announced shortly.
Monday 26 May, 6pm – Sofie McClure and Cat Dowden
Details announced shortly.
Monday 2 June, 6pm – TBA
Monday 9 June, 6pm – TBA
Monday 16 June, 6pm – TBA
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
