perception

Just had a meeting with mark dyson - light designer and production manager based in brisbane. we sat in the garden of his family home and talked about the installation/dance performance project meg and i are currently working on.

lots of interesting discussions…
how the interaction between performer, installation and viewer will occur, evolve and effect the performance and therefor installation.
we spoke about space and its purposes to engage or include..or…
conceptual art installation performance
merging interacting excluding

mark is certainly an interesting person to work with. i look forward to meeting him again and continue these conversations.

sound..

reflection..

i have had this idea ever since i moved here to canberra…creating a solo work for Elizabeth Cameron Dalman - Australias dance pioneer. I first saw Elizabeth on the stage of The Street Theater introducing her work and honoring the aboriginal land on which the theater stands.

We will start the creative development in January. Looking forward to it.
I am hoping to make this work into a dance film with D.O.P. Evan Papageorgiou which i met during the making of Waste Land by video artist Elena Näsänen www.elenanasanen.com

Below is the project proposal i wrote in May -09 as my initial research project for the ausdance dance development project. the idea was to have a performance outcome at the street theater…

In this research, I will look at the relation between body and time.
I will explore around ideas and themes such as:

• How do we experience time - physically and mentally?
• Ways in which we choose to live time – past, present, future
• Chronological time
• Timing
• Time and perspective
• Body awareness
• Ageing
• Body memory – as a physical manifestation of the psyche.
• Carl G Jung - ´the body is merely the visibility of the soul, the psyche; and the soul is the psychological experience of the body. So, it is one and the same thing´.

in deciding to not do two projects (the other being the installation with meg) i decided to leave this to be created next year…maybe with their support if possible.

Chris Bendall, Artistic Director of Deckchair Theater in Fremantle WA invited me to perform this work.

http://www.deckchairtheatre.com.au/

will write more about this project and its process in near future.

the biggest little play festival in the world Short and Sweet will land its dance program here in Canberra in october 2010!

we are working in full speed on preparing the event and will very shortly have all the details regarding submission, performance dates, workshops and more.

in the meanwhile check out the website http://www.shortandsweet.org/

i am the artistic director for the Canberra short and sweet + dance. very exciting!

we will keep you posted!

i am reading 4.48 psychosis by sarah kane. i have only just started. it takes you through the experience of her body and mind in her deep depression.
something quite beautiful (and sad) she says when she is trying to explain how she feels

…it’s not a metaphor, it’s a simile, but even if it were, the defining feature of a metaphor is that it’s real.

i am reading 4.48 psychosis because a friend, performer and poet wants to make a work based on this play. i met maitland schnaars in ‘the bridging project’.
we enjoyed working together so we decided that we would do so again.

maitland is the founding member of corazon de vaca with theater director and writer julián fuentes reta from spain. they have created several works and have a fascination about sarah kane’s plays. they performed phaedra’s love in 2007.

coming from different training and experience we wanted to explore these diverse vocabulary and create a new work.

sarah neville, director of ‘the bridging project’ is a choreographer who, as she puts it on her website instigates inter-disciplinary practices and invests in multi-platform processes and production outcomes .
we quickly found that we wanted to have space and time for a creative development.

so we applied for a four week residency in stockholm at dansens hus (house of dance) but ah - no luck.
we are applying for other swedish and australian dance platforms.

the group are us three and visual artist mia holton and my swedish friend and dance artist madeleine karlsson.

some links:

http://www.corazondevaca.com
http://sarahneville.com/
http://www.dansenshus.se

i am currently working on a creative development of a new performance/installation work in collaboration with artist meg millband. we started this project early this year but with me going to perth etc has put the project on hold. now we are in the right time to continue from where we left it.

in may this year we submitted a grant application to the artsACT. successful applicants will be announced at the end of this month.

so.. meg and i are currently taking part of this ‘dance development project’ which is facilitated by ausdance act. its aim is to support local independent dance artists in their practice and creative process. the 5 week project involves mentoring by liz lea, studio space and open forums for other dance practitioners. the forum will allow us to share the process and progress of the work and involve them in our practice to encourage dialogue.

we found this ‘development..’to be a good occasion to work intensively on our project and also to meet and take part of other dance practitioners work in the ACT.

so what is our project?

the performance/installation is looking at textures and metaphors in material and movement. we will be exploring the relation between physical manifestation of memories and how material evolves through time.

our project is entitled ‘embedded’