DATE & TIME: 14-15th August, 8pm WHERE: Sylvia Staehli Theatre, Dancehouse COST: $25 F | $20 C | $15 DH Member BOOKINGS: www.dancehouse.com.au Fire Underground is about the emotional space that opens up while waiting, interminably, for an uncertain outcome. New York choreographer Donna Uchizono made this piece as a response to her 12-year endeavour to adopt a Nepalese child. Yet, Fire Underground is not about this story, rather it is about creating a space for an audience to feel the impact of the absence that arises when longing endures. Fire Underground is an unsettling work which may leave its mark.
Donna Uchizono, Fire Underground. Image: Michael Grimaldi
Donna Uchizono Company (USA)
Arco Renz – Kobalt Works (BE) DATE & TIME: 21-22nd November, 8pm WHERE: Sylvia Staehli Theatre, Dancehouse COST: $25 F | $20 C | $15 DH Member BOOKINGS: www.dancehouse.com.au
In solid.states, Belgium-based German maverick Arco Renz places two accomplished dancers on an unstable moving platform. Performed by Javanese court dancer Eko Supriyanto and Melbourne choreographer Melanie Lane, solid.states borrows elements of their shared Javanese ancestry to trace the interplay between global and traditional forces. Through juxtaposition, both performers share their divergent experiences around the intrusion of Western pop culture into Javanese life. solid.states explores how change ultimately and intimately de-stabilises.
Arco Renz, solid.states. Image: Jean-Luc Tanghe
Two solos, one installation – the ends of stability
Gregory Lorenzutti – A Photographic Exhibition
Photographer Gregory Lorenzutti finds and frames movement with the keen eye and kinetic sensibility of a dancer. Dance is My Landscape plays with the boundaries between movement and image, body and land, Brazil and Australia, working the hybrid in-between of art forms. Lorenzutti’s skill lies in his ability to capture dance’s line of flight while documenting many Australian choreographic works. This he mingles with agile bodies and wild scents transported from his homeland Brazil. Lorenzutti’s images flow as landscapes, immensely vast and rich, geographies of endless corporeal horizons.
Image: Gregory Lorenzutti
DATE & TIME: June 12th – 6pm-9pm / June 13th and 14th – 12pm-6pm WHERE: Various Spaces COST: Free - no bookings necessary MORE INFO: www.dancehouse.com.au
Sarah Aiken
Moving from the mundane to the spectacular, from the sublime to the ridiculous, SET distorts and manipulates bodies and objects to playfully reimagine perspective, scale and perception. Choreographed and performed by Dancehouse Housemate/artist in residence Sarah Aiken, SET is a dance for one body and several objects; a work straddling the absurd & representational, repeatedly shifting how we value simple objects and the body interacting with them, ultimately revealing the human in all that is represented.
Sarah Aiken, SET. Image: Byron Perry
DATE & TIME: 22 - 26th July, 8pm (Sunday 6pm) WHERE: Sylvia Staehli Theatre, Dancehouse COST: $25 F | $20 C | $15 DH Member BOOKINGS: www.dancehouse.com.au
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SIMONE’S BOUDOIR CONVERSATION SERIES
This regular series of salon-style conversations presented by Dancehouse highlights the subtle connections that exist between the thinking (moving) body and contemporary aesthetical, societal and political issues. Each discussion explores a topic and invites artists, thinkers and shakers to engage in an intimate, free spirited dialogue. Find out more at www.dancehouse.com.au or subscribe to the e-news to be alerted to discussion dates.
Ros Warby, Court Dance. Image: Gregory Lorenzutti for Dancehouse
THE DANCEHOUSE DIARY is a unique and accessible dance-focused publication aimed to provoke thinking from a multiplicity of perspectives about dance, art and its place in Australian society. Each issue is thematically structured and draws together artists, practitioners, thinkers and writers. The DIARY is driven by the view that the moving body has the capacity to generate new thoughts, new sensations, new ways of thinking about the mind, the body and the existential dimensions of dance in the broader social context.
Become our 2016 Housemate EOI opens June 1st and closes June 30.
Alexandra Harrison, What’s Coming. Image: Steven R DeLuzuriaga
The Dancehouse Housemate program supports rigorous discourse, research and wide-ranging experimentation in all movement-based forms so as to nurture new choreographic expression for new forms and contexts. The Housemate Residency is about accompanying dance artists through the entire creative process, from vision to realisation. The program offers time to explore, space to examine possibility and the terrain to be audacious. It is also Dancehouse’s commitment to the future of dance in Australia and to those who re-shape and re-invent choreographic thought for bodies in movement.
Dancehouse provides vital opportunities for continued corporeal examinations across a variety of dance forms, techniques, practices and production models.
BE- Arco Renz November 21-22- 11am-4pm USA - Olive Bieringa BODY-CARTOGRAPHY – Nov 14-15 Open to practitioners with a formal dance training
NEXT STAGES
WINTER INTENSIVE
Laboratory – discussion – choreography BODY / OBJECTS / SCORES 10am-3pm Prue Lang June 21 Atlanta Eke June 28 Sandra Parker July 5
Next Stages is a series of capacity building practical workshops for independent dance artists, led by industry experts. These workshops will sharpen your skills, arm you with tools and give you valuable insight into the arts industry.
Matthew Day July 12
Mondays - July 13, 20, 27 5.30pm-7.30pm
For more information, go to www.dancehouse.com.au/development
Open to practitioners exploring choreographic composition with/around/ for objects
Deborah Hay, Learning Curve. Image: Gregory Lorenzutti for Dancehouse
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS
USA- Donna Uchizono August 10 -15 – 10am-2pm
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James Batchelor & Amber McCartney, SPACEPROJECT for Dance Massive 2015. Image: Gregory Lorenzutti for Dancehouse
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Atlanta Eke, Body of Work for Dance Massive 2015. Image: Gregory Lorenzutti for Dancehouse
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Dancehouse is situated on Wurunjeri land. We acknowledge the Wurunjeri people who are the Traditional Custodians of the Land on which Dancehouse sits and pay respect to the Elders both past and present of the Kulin Nation.
Matthew Day, Rites for Keir Choreographic Award 2014. Image: Gregory Lorenzutti for Dancehouse
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