Tess de Quincey
Tess de Quincey is a choreographer and dancer who has worked extensively in Australia and Europe as a solo performer, teacher and director. Based in Japan from 1985 until 1991, she was a dancer for 6 years with butoh artist Min Tanaka and his Mai-Juku performance group which has provided the strongest influence on her [...]
PLATFORM 4
an evening of short performances with FRANK VAN DE VEN, TESS DE QUINCEY, PETER FRASER, VICTORIA HUNT, LINDA LUKE, B-I MOB, JIM DENLEY, RISHIN SINGH, MARTIN FOX & EMMA LOCKHART-WILSON
…Saturday 10 March…
FRASERSTUDIOS
COPPER PROMISES
major new performance work by VICTORIA HUNT
….4-12 May….
PERFORMANCE SPACE at CARRIAGEWORKS
FLOAT – slipping through time
A solo piece on water that articulates different beings connected vertically through time and horizontally through space.
RIVER INSIDE THE SKIN & ROADSIDE FREQUENCIES
Artist Victoria Hunt two site specific works in collaboration with The Cad Factory.
NO COLD FEET – site specific transformations
our highly acclaimed, recently performed piece is a site-specific event for families at dusk and can be adapted for different venues
RESOUND
Solo performance by TESS DE QUINCEY in response to installation Copper Ships by SUE PEDLEY
…SATURDAY 3 SEPTEMBER…
Tin Sheds Gallery, The University of Sydney
PLATFORM 3
presents an evening of works from BodyWeather and related practice, curated by LINDA LUKE.
27 August, FraserStudios
LIGHTING THRESHOLDS
a Critical Path residency at The Drill, Sydney 5 – 29 July, to investigate the role of light as a dramaturgical tool.
GHOST QUARTERS – first dream of The Opium Confessions
a performance installation exploring the experience of destitution, addiction and the spatial uncanny.
BUTOH ON SCEEN
Free DVD screening hosted by butoh artist TESS DE QUINCEY
– SATURDAY 9 JULY at 1pm –
Domain Theatre, Art Gallery of NSW
THIRTEEN
a series of site specific dance installations reflecting upon teenage homelessness dancer by LINDA LUKE in collaboration with composer Vic McEwan.
DANCING THE DEAD: A PERFORMED CONVERSATION
This performed conversation by VICTORIA HUNT & FIONA WINNING explores ideas of displacement, embodiment of the ancestral, and it’s reclamation.
DANCE DIARIES 1
a dance workshop and dance video directed by LINDA LUKE that invited teenagers from the Campbelltown region to reflect on teenage homelessness and displacement within their community.
2 SOLOS
BORDERLINES by Linda Luke
TARKOVSKY’S HORSE by Peter Fraser
dancing the fragility of human existence…
THE WEATHER MIND
ephemeral moments from De Quincey Co performances, photographs by Mayu Kanamori & Russell Emerson
5-25 MAY, Kaleidoscope Gallery
LINE IN LINE
a BodyWeather performance by Tess de Quincey with sound artist Jim Denley forshadowing Richard Long’s Stone Line
Saturday 21 May @ 1pm, Art Gallery NSW
PULSE
Tess de Quincey & Stuart Grant perform in the Grafitti Tunnel, The University of Sydney
for ADSA-Australian Drama Studies Association Conference
BUGGER WE
an essentially vague performance; an inexact mag; persistent chatter; interferences
between dancer Tess de Quincey and academic Stuart Grant
PLATFORM 2
presents improvised performances by international and local artists curated by TESS DE QUINCEY.
5 March, FraserStudios