YOU'RE HISTORY! Performance Space Brochure by Performance Space

A festival celebrating 30 years of Performance Space YOU’RE HISTORY! 20 November – 1 December 2013

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30 Ways With Time And Space* EVENING (Performances) FREE

30 Ways With Time And Space * EVENING (Performances) FREE

30 Ways With Time And Space* EVENING (Performances) FREE

30 Ways With Time And Space* ALL DAY (Performances) FREE

This is Barbara Cleveland 10am-9pm (Installation) FREE

This is Barbara Cleveland 10am-9pm (Exhibition) FREE

The Directors' Cuts* 7pm $15 Single or $70 Directors’ CHAIR

The Directors’ Cuts* 7pm $15 Single or $70 Directors’ CHAIR

The Directors’ Cuts* 5PM (Screening $10) 7pm (Performance) $15 Single or $70 Directors’ CHAIR

The Directors’ Cuts* 7pm $15 Single or $70 Directors’ CHAIR

Box Of Birds 9pm FREE

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Sunday 1 Dec

30 Ways With Time And Space* EVENING (Installation) FREE

30 Ways With Time And Space* EVENING (Performances) FREE

30 Ways With Time And Space* ALL DAY (Performances) FREE

This is Barbara Cleveland 10am-9pm (Installation) FREE

This is Barbara Cleveland 10am-9pm (Exhibition) FREE

The Directors’ Cuts* 7pm $15 Single or $70 Directors’ CHAIR

The Directors’ Cuts* 6PM (Das Superpaper) 7PM (Performance) $15 Single or $70 Directors’ CHAIR

The Directors’ Cuts* 7pm $15 Single or $70 Directors’ CHAIR

The Directors’ Cuts* 5PM (Screening $10) 7pm (Performance) $15 Single or $70 Directors’ CHAIR

Tele Visions 8.30pm $10

Tele Visions 8.30pm $15

Tele Visions 2pm FREE

Brief Synopsis 8.30pm + post show artist Q&A $35/$25

Brief Synopsis 8.30pm $35/$25/ $20 STUDENT RUSH

danse (3) - sans spectacle 7pm, 8:30pm $20/$15

* Detailed program & times on website COVER IMAGE Azaria Universe, cLUB bENT (1995) Photo by Heidrun Löhr

Brief Synopsis 8.30pm $35/$25

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General: All sales are final and no refunds are possible. Exchanges may be made at the discretion of Performance Space and are subject to availability. Absolutely no exchanges can be made less than 24 hours prior to commencement of a ticketed event. Performance Space reserves the right to alter details of any event within the program.

The Directors’ Chair: Unlimited individual access to all ticketed events within The Directors’ Cuts program. All ticketed events within this program do not require pre-booking for pass holders. All tickets collected from Box Office at Carriageworks. Latecomers may not be granted access to some events.

You’re Pass!: Individual access to all ticketed events presented as part of YOU’RE HISTORY! festival. At time of booking, pass holders must choose which performances of “Brief Synopsis” and “d a n s e” they wish to attend. Changes to these bookings may be made up to 24 hours prior to performance, subject to availability. All other ticketed performances do not require pre-booking. All tickets collected from Box Office at Carriageworks. Latecomers may not be granted access to some events.

Members and e-subscribers: All members and e-subscriber tickets must be booked prior to 4pm on the day of event. No members or e-subscriber tickets are available for reservation/purchase at Box Office. Latecomers may not be granted access to some events.

Celebrating 30 Years Celebrating Years of Performance Performance SPace SPace YOU’RE HISTORY! That’s right, YOU ARE HISTORY. Our artists, our audiences and our staff define who we have been and who we are, and we want to celebrate our 30 year anniversary festival with you over two action-packed weeks. YOU’RE HISTORY! celebrates the artists who imbue Performance Space with the creative energy, genre-defying brilliance, and radical new ideas that have made it a stand-alone organisation on the Australian arts landscape - work we are proud to be continuing to this day. For this momentous occasion, we’ve taken over the entire Carriageworks building and filled it with the most exciting developments in Australian performance, dance, theatre, visual art, sound, and music alongside a complimentary program of film screenings, lectures, and public discussions. To give you the back story, we’ve invited all of Performance Space’s former Directors into the building to curate a night each in the Carriageworks theatre. This program – aptly titled The Directors’ Cuts – is a fascinating, nuanced, and idiosyncratic overview of 30 years of Australian performance told through film, performance, lectures, listening parties and yet stranger events. It will be unmissable.

Moving from past to present, artist Agatha Gothe-Snape is transforming Carriageworks’ public spaces into performance spaces for 30 Ways with Time and Space. This project sees Agatha’s sprawling, large-scale installation activated by 30 performance works over the course of the YOU’RE HISTORY! festival. We’re also premiering full-length works by Tess de Quincey, The opera Project, Ros Crisp and Brown Council, and we’ll farewell analogue television with the exciting Tele Visions program curated by Alex White and Emma Ramsay. We programmed this festival to enable you to experience several shows across the course of a single visit – so get your highlighter out and start planning your journey. Across 12 short days and nights, there’s so much to experience… join us in celebrating Performance Space’s incredible history, while we look to the future of Australian performance.

Bec Dean and Jeff Khan, Performance Space Co-Directors

About Performance Space Performance Space is Australia’s leading agency for interdisciplinary arts, producing and presenting new artistic experiences across multiple sites, locations and venues. Performance Space forges exciting futures for contemporary art in Australia. Our program focuses on innovative works that captivate and inspire audiences. Performance Space is supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its principal arts funding body; the New South Wales Government through Arts NSW; and by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments. Performance Space is supported by Carriageworks.

AYS 3300 WWAYS PACE ND SSPACE ME AAND ITH TITIME WWITH Enter an ever-changing field of plinths and platforms, where an extraordinary series of performances creates an enveloping adventure through the body and its potential.

30 Ways with Time and Space celebrates 30 years of Performance Space’s groundbreaking work, through a free program of 30 performances across the 12 days of the YOU’RE HISTORY! festival.

20 Nov – 1 Dec Daily Performances (see Performance Space website for full schedule)

For this extraordinary one-off event, leading Australian artist Agatha Gothe-Snape will transform Carriageworks’ public space into a multifaceted performance space, creating a series of modular plinths and platforms to house a kaleidoscopic array of short and durational works.

FREE VENUE: CARRIAGEWORKS PUBLIC SPACES ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: This project was supported by numerous individuals who contributed to Bec Dean and Raquel Ormella’s City2Surf fundraising run in August, 2013.

‘The performers will respond to these minimal plinths with minimal needs, returning their attention to their bodies. As the focus shifts from one station to another, the technicians’ role will be made transparent.’ Agatha Gothe-Snape From some of Australia’s most celebrated performance makers – including Mike Parr, Lauren Brincat and Jon Rose – to some of our most exciting emerging artists, 30 Ways with Time and Space spans dance, theatre, performance art, live art, participatory events, sound, and beyond. Prepare to be immersed in an astonishing and ever-changing world of performance – a testament to the breathtaking creative energy of the artists who have worked with the organisation. Featuring Applespiel / Lauren Brincat & Bree van Reyk / Paul Capsis / Sandra Carluccio / Sarah Coconis / Rakini Devi / Frumpus / Ryuichi Fujimura & Kate Sherman / Glory Hole & Emma Price / Aunty Rhonda Dixon Grovenor & Nadeena Dixon / Agatha Gothe-Snape / Nikki Heywood / Vicki Van Hout / Victoria Hunt / Deborah Leiser-Moore & Regina Heilmann / Bridie Lunney / Mike Parr / POETRIBE / Matt Prest & Clare Britton / Jon Rose / Victoria Spence / Annette Tesoreiro / Dean Walsh / WART / plus more to be announced…

Program Highlights For full program, performance times and daily schedule visit www.performancespace.com.au

Paul Capsis Icon. Rock god. Performer extraordinaire. One of the most powerful, distinct voices in Australia returns to Performance Space.

Aunty Rhonda Dixon Grovenor & Nadeena Dixon This mother and daughter duo bring their strong, soulful acoustic musical styling to tell personal stories of Aboriginal resistance.

Mike Parr An unparalleled vanguard of Australian performance art delivers an explosive statement about our current political climate. Warning: contains self mutilation.

Rakini Devi Rakini Devi allows the Indian Goddess Kali to adopt the guise of Johanna, a mystical female Pope of the 1200s – challenging conceptions of religion, culture and gender.

Lauren Brincat & Bree van Reyk Are you a mexican bell or a piano accordion? Lauren Brincat and Bree van Reyk paint your portrait with sound.

John Rose & Lucas Abela Loud. Spectacular. Unapologetic. Rose plays his deconstructed violin while Abela plays a pane of glass… with his face.

Annette Tesoreiro & Maria White Art and Wellbeing – the Opera Intergenerational world of artsy and community buzz words that collide and entangle us, sung via megaphone.

Vicki Van Hout A rare solo performance from one of Australia’s leading choreographers that collides traditional and contemporary Indigenous dance.

Matt Prest & Clare Britton Celebrating their shared lives as performers, artists, and parents, Britton & Prest are joined by their son as they turn family folk singing on its head.

Applespiel Go back in time with team Applespiel to save Performance Space… and Christmas… with a performance panto!

Performance Space 30 Ways with Time and Space (2013) Photo by Lucy Parakhina

Spanning dance, theatre, performance art, live art, sound and durational works

Excavating 30 years of celebrated highs hilarious lows and the downright seediest moments in the PS underbelly Performance Space Directors 1983-2013 1983 – 1984 Mike Mullins 1984 – 1986 Nick Tsoutas 1986 – 1987 Alan Vizents (represented by Barbara Campbell) 1987 – 1989 Noëlle Janaczewska (represented by Barbara Allen) 1989 – 1993 Sarah Miller 1994 – 1997 Angharad Wynne-Jones 1997 – 1999 Zane Trow 1999 – 2008 Fiona Winning Performance Space Directors 2008 – 2011 Daniel Brine circa 1983. 2012 – PRESENT Bec Dean & Jeff Khan

THE THE CUTS DIRECTORS’ DIRECTORS’ CUTS Excavating 30 years of celebrated highs, hilarious lows and the downright seediest moments in the PS underbelly, YOU’RE HISTORY! flings open the doors to our bravest directors as they reflect, reiterate and gamely revoke – a daily program of performance art leadership... in live performance! 20 Nov – 30 NOV, Wed – Sun 7pm SATURDAY Screenings 5pm $15 Tickets $10 Screenings $100 You’re Pass! Get automatic entry to all YOU’RE HISTORY! events $70 THE Directors’ Chair Gets you into all The Director’s Cuts shows and screenings Members – FREE Venue: Bay 20

From Daniel Brine’s uplifting thirty one-minute manifestos (30 x 30) to Angharad Wynne-Jones’ A Parliament of Animals’ petting zoo session (yes, you read that correctly), The Directors’ Cuts invites our most visionary leaders to take back the stage with no ifs or buts, guiding audiences into the greatest minds of Australian performance history. Featuring nine directors across 12 days, check out the daily-changing schedule below of live art, talks, screenings, performance installations and projected works. This is a living, historical artefact of Australia’s performance history, a never-to-be-repeated collection of incredible minds not to be missed – think of it as the ultimate director’s cut – where we go behind-the-scenes, unlock the secrets, and dig into some juicy extras!

Program Highlights For performance updates visit www.performancespace.com.au

Daniel Brine (2008-2011) Wed 20 Nov, 7pm 30 x 30 – Thirty one-minute manifestos for the next thirty years A screen programme of thirty one-minute manifestos by artists and producers who will be making work for at least the next thirty years – a celebratory toast to the future!

Fiona Winning (1999-2008) ThurS 21 Nov, 7pm by chance/by accident/by design 30 peers wax lyrical on ten quotes… from the rehearsal room floor, the media, the courtyard bar… quotes/ ideas that helped shape the decisions we made at Performance Space over a decade – watch/join in as random memories, outrageous assertions and reflections on the then and now emerge...

Zane Trow (1997-1999) Fri 22 Nov, 7pm 1983: Dedicated to Hugh H., who’s not listening Zane Trow will perform a live, mostly improvised illbient soundscape, mixing his recent laptop electronica with found public domain sounds from 1983.

SCREENING: Post-Arrivalists Sat 23 Nov 5pm Members of the influential Sydney-based collective screen footage of their controversial work Lock Up presented at Performance Space in 1994 and discuss its development and legacy.

Angharad Wynne-Jones (1994-1997) Sat 23 Nov, 7pm A Parliament of Animals The parliamentarians explore their relationship to creatures, realigning ourselves to our planet and ecosystem, capped off with an animal petting session to boot!

Sarah Miller (1989-1993) Sun 24 Nov, 7pm Past Tense / Future Perfect Looking back in order to imagine the future, artists from different art forms and generations remember the high points, neglect the low, and speculate about those special projects yet to come into being...

Noëlle Janaczewska (1987 – 1989) Wed 27 Nov, 7pm A Space of Memories (collated by Barbara Allen) A ‘space of memories’ will be constructed to reflect the open and thoughtful framework that generated an energetic hub of ideas and creativity under Noëlle’s directorship. The audience will be invited to contribute on the night through social media.

AlLan Vizents (1986-1987) Thurs 28 Nov, 7pm Fast Lane Delivery Feat. Barbara Campbell, Derek Kreckler, Annette Tesoriero & Amanda Stewart Senior performance artists honour the work of the late Allan Vizents with a fast and furious covers of of his ‘80s performance texts.

LAUNCH: Das Superpaper – The Feminism Issue Thurs 28 Nov, 6pm Come join the Das team for a drink as they launch the latest guest-edited issue of this contemporary art publication.

Nick Tsoutas 1984 - 1986 Fri 29 Nov, 7pm The End of History This won’t be a night of memories, but a night to remember - join Nick in a celebration of rembetika music, ouzo and conversation.

SCREENING: ‘… the dancer from the dance’ Physical TV Screening Sat 30 Nov, 5pm Through beautifully danced and spoken sequences, the compelling stories and philosophies of culturally diverse NSW dancers are revealed.

Mike Mullins (1980-1985) Sat 30 Nov, 7pm Remembering the Future Interrogating the archive that began it all, founding director Mike Mullins re-examines the Performance Space dream – navigating today’s performance landscape and the challenges we face in the future.

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Brown Council, Remembering Barbara Cleveland (2013) Photo by Lucy Parakhina

This is Barbara Cleveland is a new video work by Brown Council that presents a portrait of one of Australia’s forgotten performance artists, the legendary Barbara Cleveland. ‘...they have so successfully invented their own rich tradition of performance and body art.’ – Incubate Magazine (2013) 20 Nov – 1 Dec 10am – 9pm FREE Venue: Bay 19 For more on This is Barbara Cleveland www.browncouncil.com

Brown Council return to Performance Space after their endurance bake-off – Mass Action: 137 Cakes in 90 Hours (2012) – to present This is Barbara Cleveland, a video portrait of one of Australia’s legendary yet oddly invisible performance artists. This is Barbara Cleveland is the latest installment in their ongoing project that pays tribute to the life and work of Cleveland. This new video work celebrates and seeks to define Cleveland, who disappeared in 1981. Confusing fact and fiction, history and memory, this meditation on performance gives voice to this mythic feminist artist who has been left out of the pages of Australian art history. ‘By honouring the life and work of Cleveland, we seek to question who is written in and out of art history, and how narratives are constructed and re-presented’ – Brown Council Brown Council have presented their projects nationally and internationally, most recently at Forest Fringe (UK), Cambridge Junction (UK), Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane) and Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney). This is Barbara Cleveland will be presented at Performance Space in Carriageworks Bay 19. Acknowledgement This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

Brown Council present another iteration of their Barbara Cleveland work – a mythic feminist performance artist from 1970s Australia.

This project has been supported by the QANTAS Foundation: Creating life-changing experiences for the next generation of Australians. This project has been supported by Queen Street Studio through funding from ARTS NSW as part of the 2013 Heffron Hall Performing Arts Residency Program.

IC N O IC F 30 YEARS OF ICONIC O S R A E Y 30 PERFORMANCES PERFORMANCES

Photos by Christo Crocker, Ruby Davies, Heidrun Lรถhr, Lucy Parakhina.

The legacy of content and form that analog TV will leave behind in its final hours before close down.

Alex White and Emma Ramsay, Tele Visions (2013) Photo by Lucy Parakhina

Tele Visions Visions Tele Curated by Alex White and Emma RamsAy

Tele Visions: a live broadcast that takes advantage of the medium’s dying moments and pulls the cultural and technological phenomenon of TV apart. 28 Nov - 1 DEC THURS - SAT 8:30PM SUNDAY 2PM $10-$15 All Tickets $100 You’re Pass! Get automatic free entry to all YOU’RE HISTORY! events Members – FREE Venue: Track 8 For more on Tele Visions www.televisionsproject.org Twitter @TeleVProject

‘Television has been attacking us all our lives, now we can attack it back’ – Nam June Paik (1970)

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

After nearly sixty years, the most pervasive and dominant media platform we have ever seen will be switched off in Sydney on the 3rd of December 2013. Join us as we celebrate the final days of analog TV through new and historically significant works interrogating the medium of television.

OPENING NIGHT Thurs 28 Nov, 8pm - $10 Lara Thoms

In a week-long, one-off transmission live online and via short range analog TV broadcast, this five-day program of live performances, screenings, talks and interruptions, will form a pop-up TV channel that reimagines the televisual space. Featuring new works devised specifically for live TV, artists Lara Thoms, Joel Stern, Kate Blackmore, Frances Barrett, Wrong Solo (Agatha Gothe-Snape and Brian Fuata) and Pia van Gelder will cross-examine the form that defined mass media. Tele Visions explores the boundaries between behind-thescreen performers and audiences both on-set and on the couch – an anarchic wake that bids farewell to the linear monolith that has dominated your lounge room for so long. ‘In its final moments, some of the most charismatic and exciting artists from Australia and the world re-imagine what television might have been’ – Alex White and Emma Ramsay, co-directors of Tele Visions ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Supported by the Interarts Board and Early Career Residency Program at the Australian Council for the Arts, Community Broadcasting Foundation, Metro Screen, Performance Space and TVS. PRODUCTION CREDITS Devised, Directed, Produced by Alex White & Emma Ramsay

For performance updates visit www.performancespace.com.au

Featuring Wake #2 The Wake #2 is a project that commemorates static. It is a collaboration with 86-year-old Joy Hruby who currently broadcasts her show Joy’s World from her TV studio in her Botany garage.

Live TV AV Performance A direct television signal based manipulation, noise, light and sound extravaganza to launching the broadcast.

Fri 29 Nov, 8pm - $10 Joel Stern Neurovision Fast permanent reprogramming of your bio-subconscious computer (the subconscious mind), removal of fears, negative physical habits and mental viruses - including television itself.

Screening #1 Artist submissions made to the Tele Visions project.

Sat 30 Nov, 8pm - $15 Pia van Gelder Televisual Behaviour Studies Televisual Behaviour Studies is a series of experiments that explore the intrinsic electronic nature of analogue television, its liveliness, reflexivity, fragility and ethereality.

Wrong Solo (Agatha Gothe-Snape & Brian Fuata) FORWARDS FORWARDS FORWARDS FORWARDS is a variety show of concrete poetry, pedestrian dance and powerpoint animation.

Screening #2 Artist submissions made to the Tele Visions project.

Sun 1 Dec, 2pm - FREE TV Talks: Media Access and Control

Screening: The Bicentenary Will Not Be Televised (1988, AUS) Produced by Paper Tiger and Radio Redfern

Program continues off site, visit www.televisionsproject.org for venue details and performance updates

Sun 1 Dec, 7:30pm TV Talks: Art for TV / TV as art

Screening: Global Groove by Nam June Paik (1973, USA) and Auto Italia South East (UK)

Mon 25 Nov - Tues 3 Dec Kate Blackmore & FRANCES BARRETT Box Set A televisual endurance performance of nothingness. For eight days Blackmore and Barrett will sit on a couch and watch all 525 episodes of one of the world’s longest running television series, The Simpsons; the ultimate act of ‘doing nothing’.

CLOSING NIGHT SUN 1 Dec, 8pm (12 hours) Box Set Sleepover Join the artists from Box Set overnight at Verge Gallery for a sleepover, and the final 12 hours of analog television in Australia.

Tues 3 Dec, 7:30am - 9am Box Set Breakfast with Guest Chef Breakfast and witness the shutdown of analog TV signal at 9am.

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nakedwoman woman“of a beautiful naked “ofa acertain certainage” age” Brutallystabs stabsaayoung youngman Brutally mantotodeath death The opera Project Inc.

From soft whimpers to stormy crescendos, cast yourself adrift in this romantic, gripping undertaking from the vanguard of Australian theatre. ‘Creates stronger artistic statements than productions on ten times the budget’ Sydney Morning Herald (2001) 27-29 Nov Wed-Fri 8:30pm $35 Full $25 Concession / e-subscribers $20 Student Rush – Friday 29 Nov $100 You’re Pass! Get automatic entry to all YOU’RE HISTORY! events Members – FREE Venue: Bay 17 For more on The opera Project Inc. www.nigelkellaway.com

Celebrating an enduring connection with Performance Space’s 30 year history, Nigel Kellaway unites with photographer and long term associate Heidrun Löhr in Brief Synopsis – an entrancing mix of dramatic intrigue, sumptuous music, and the cool allure of France’s filmic Nouvelle Vague. Set within a specially commissioned world of animated photography, Brief Synopsis places Kellaway, Katia Molino and David Buckley centre-stage in Carriageworks’ epic Bay 17, guiding audiences through an arresting narrative where a beautiful naked woman, ‘of a certain age’, brutally stabs a young man to death… ‘Theatre as loud and soft bits… fast and slow. Brief Synopsis is a performance work redolent of the aesthetics of abstract painting – where the audience is encouraged to look at, rather than through the artefact.’ – Nigel Kellaway Performed with a virtuosic ensemble of three celli, double bass and piano that evokes classical music’s timeless greats (Strauss, Beethoven, Bach, Mozart), Brief Synopsis resculpts contemporary theatre into a kinetic spectacle of cinematic proportions – a watershed moment for Performance Space, The opera Project and YOU’RE HISTORY!. Created by Nigel Kellaway, Katia Molino, David Buckley, Heidrun Löhr, Richard Montgomery, Steve Meyer, Laura Moore, Catherine Upex, Ashley Kurrle, Benjamin Au, Clytie Smith, Hans Bildstein Produced by The opera Project Inc. and Performance Space Brief Synopsis is directly supported by The University of Wollongong, the Bundanon Trust and the generous commitment of many individual “crowd-funders”.

The opera Project Inc., Brief Synopsis (2013) Photo by Heidrun Löhr

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Tess de Quincey, Box of Birds (2013) Photo by Lucy Parakhina

A live dance installation that examines marginalised existence, MADNESS and incarceration, and the power of the past to agitate and disturb.

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A visual feast suspended high above and all around you that forges otherworldly fashion, sitespecific dance and outsider art into one helluva dark night of the soul. ‘An epitaph for our time’ – The Age on Tess de Quincey’s Nerve 9 (2002) 20-24 Nov Wed-Sun 9pm FREE Venue: Carriageworks Corridors For more on Box of Birds www.dequinceyco.net www.stillsgallery.com.au/artists/ferran

Inviting audiences deep within the nooks and crannies of Carriageworks’ grand industrial passageways, Box of Birds invades YOU’RE HISTORY! for a mythic latenight journey through the shadows of the human psyche – probing the power of the past, life on the outskirts, and distorted memories in an immersive melting pot of large-scale photography, improvised dance and live music. Fusing Anne Ferran’s acclaimed photographic trilogy of 1940’s psychiatric patients (INSULA, 1-38, Box of Birds – exhibition) with the unpredictable swing of Australia’s BodyWeather dance collective, DE QUINCEY CO’s Box of Birds conjures a labyrinth-like domain where otherworldly fashion and immersive sound design intertwines with select readings of the legendary German philosopher, Frederich Nietzsche. ‘Tess de Quincey’s barely perceptible movements built to such intensity that the space felt charged with electricity and some undefinable immutability and emotion’ – Sydney Morning Herald (2004) Box of Birds thrusts us through the first week of YOU’RE HISTORY! in a series of free daily performances that installs performers amongst Carriageworks’ post-industrial architecture. Invigorating in its bold expression of taboos past and present, Box of Birds marks the rapturous return of leading BodyWeather artist Tess de Quincey since opening the venue seven years ago with the site-specific spectacle, The Stirring. Presented by Performance Space in association with De Quincey Co. De Quincey Co is supported by the NSW Government through Arts NSW,and Box of Birds has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. Performance Tess de Quincey, Kathryn Puie, Linda Luke, Kirsten Packham, Ellen Rijs Felt objects & costumes Anne Ferran & Katja Handt Photographic projections Mireille Astore & Anne Ferran Sound Vic McEwan Vocal text Mireille Astore Lighting & Production Sian James-Holland

Rosalind Crisp, Céline Debyser, Max Fossati

With lightning deftness, three dancers unravel d a n s e, pulling the gaze into each and every crack and fold of their bodies. A thousand more dances appear and disappear as we are suspended inside the fault-lines of dance itself. A kaleidoscope of multiple and fragmentary bodies. ‘A rare chance to see a dance maker at the top of her game’ – The Australian on danse (1) 30 Nov– 1 Dec Sat-Sun 7pm & 8:30pm $20 Full $15 Concession / e-subscribers $100 You’re Pass! Get automatic entry to all YOU’RE HISTORY! events Members – FREE Venue : Bay 17 For more on d a n s e www.omeodance.com

Shimmering through the last day of spring and first for summer, YOU’RE HISTORY! propels to a euphoric finale with a weekend celebration of d a n s e. Working with attention at the forefront, the dancers create choreographic form that tears through time and space and suspends our habitual expectations. This Paris borne trio with Rosalind Crisp, Céline Debyser and Max Fossati comes from Crisp’s nine year tenure as Choreographic Associate of the Atelier de Paris-Carolyn Carlson. ‘…Beyond analogy, Crisp’s movement is astonishing in its sheer otherness,… the standard syntax of dance erased. It’s magical…, it’s dance… like never before’ – RealTime (2011) Engulfed in the post-industrial expanse of Carriageworks’ Bay 17, d a n s e (3) will strip back what dancing is; a manifesto for placing dancing at the centre of dance. The piece constantly unfolds, it shifts in focus surprisingly, but come prepared to watch the movement, un-seduced by dramaturgy, unencumbered by the conventions of the proscenium. As Crisp tells us… ‘After the skein of the spectacle has been removed, we return to dance’.

A Rosalind Crisp / Omeo Dance Inc. production. Co-produced with Centre Chorégraphique National de Franche-Comté à Belfort, La Fabrique de Saint Astier, Dordogne, Performance Space, Dancehouse Melbourne. With the support of the Embassy of France, Atelier de Paris-Carolyn Carlson, East Gippsland Shire Council, Critical Path. Collaborators Céline Debyser and Max Fossati Sound and Support Andrew Morrish

CĂŠline Debyser, danse (2011) Photo by Heidrun LĂśhr

A way of working with the body and an ensemble of unstable principles, which guide the production of movement by the dancer.