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
BREATH
The two artists maintain an ongoing partnership in improvisation concerned with finding structures and resonances which reflect ‘the place and the moment’.
THE DE QUINCEY TAPES
A video installation by John Gillies in collaboration with Tess de Quincey photos Mari Velonaki
ANOTHER DUST
Rigorously anti-humanistic in conception, de Quincey presented an alien body, the body as phenomena.
100 CLOAKS GONE BEFORE DAWN
This residency will explore the idea of dancing 100 Cloaks, tapping into the ever-shifting relationship between Victoria’s Maori heritage and her Australian-born experience.
GATHERING GROUND: TIMELESSNESS 2010
Moogahlin Performing Arts and the Redfern Community Centre present GATHERING GROUND 2010: Timelessness (Past, present and future)
IMPRO-LAB
breaking open the moment
dance – video – music
live improvised meetings
between artists & audiences
TRIPTYCH
TRIPTYCH examines three elements – air, electricity and water – through dance, sonic and visual structures.
GATHERING GROUND: BLOCKSIDE STORY 2008
multi art site specific performance work of action, video, music, sound and story set amongst broken walls, empty buildings and spaces.
THE STIRRING
The Stirring brings an industrial environment to life as a place with a layered human history. It is a new site-specific work created at CarriageWorks
DICTIONARY OF ATMOSPHERES
wander through drifting climates as dance entwines with video and sound to underscore the magic of the transformation between day and night in the riverbed.
FIVE Short Solos
Each solo is an independant investigation of themes defined by the individual performer and is linked to the other performances by context, overall direction and the underlying Bodyweather training of the company.
embrace: CHANGING STATE
A Performance Installation in collaboration with Monirath Theater, Kolkata, India and De Quincey Co
embrace: A GREEN WAVE
Performers Santanu Bose, Kristina Harrison, Victoria Hunt Sound Composition Austral Voices Direction & Choreography Tess de Quincey Main Structural & Conceptual Source: The Natyashastra 6:15 This performance at Kianniny Bay was part of the second stage of the Embrace-Exchange which built on the company’s 2003 residency in Kolkata and a collaboration with Santanu Bose, director [...]
FORM OF SCENT
in a site-specific performance event – a wandering series of danced and sung tableaux