ON VIEW: ICONS
By Sue Healey. Featuring: Lucette Aldous AC, Elizabeth Cameron Dalman OAM,
Nanette Hassall AM, Eileen Kramer, Elma Kris, Shirley McKechnie AO.
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ICONS_2022_Eileen Kramer. Photo: still from film Sue Healey.
— A cinematic tribute to 6 Australian dance icons
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.
Dance is quintessentially ephemeral – there is no shared archive or collective notation, to ensure ideas are not forgotten. The unique embodied languages of dance are passed on only by expert human care and attention to detail. This is easily lost. I translate dance to the screen as an antidote to its impermanence. An evolving archive, On View: Icons is a collection of portraits of iconic dance artists, whose legacies deserve to be remembered.
— Sue Healey
Video, Editor and Installation: Sue Healey
Director of Photography: Judd Overton
Music: Darrin Verhagen
Producer: Dino Dimitriadis
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ON VIEW ICONS — History
Stage 1: presented by Performance Space at Carriageworks Sydney, 2015 (2 portraits)
Stage 2: Exhibited Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne 2017 (3 portraits)
Stage 3: All 6 portraits shown in Sydney Festival 2024.
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SUE HEALEY is a choreographer, film-maker and installation artist, based on Gadigal land/Sydney, critically acclaimed for her work in dance and the moving image. Experimenting with form and perception, Healey creates performance and film for diverse spaces and contexts: galleries, theatres and screens. Her dance works and films have won national and international awards including 6 Australian Dance Awards and 2 Hong Kong Dance Awards (2017, 2021) and an Opus Klassik Award Germany’s foremost classical music prize for Best Music Video 2023.
In 2021 Healey was the recipient of the Australia Council Award for Dance.
Sue Healey spent several decades as a performer and choreographer in Narrm/Melbourne, as a graduate and lecturer at the VCA, a founding member of Danceworks in the 1980s and an independent artist in the 1990s.
Her new major work AFTERWORLD is currently in development with percussionist Laurence Pike and 5 dancers. It will be presented in Sydney Festival January 2025. The 3 channel installation ON VIEW: ICONS was presented in Sydney Festival 2024 and is touring Australia 2024/25. Her work is shown in many galleries around Australia and Asia.
Her ON VIEW series, cine-portraits of dance artists from Asia and Australia, culminated in the large-scale performance installation ‘Panorama’ in Japan 2020 and ‘Panoramic Suite’ in Sydney and Hong Kong in 2021. Various digital and live iterations from this work have toured to Japan, Hong Kong and around Australia.
This project is supported by Creative Australia, Create NSW, and Tobi Wilkinson and Rob Keldoulis.
