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 [...]
BODY MEETS IMAGINATION: a manual of images from BodyWeather
8-day image workshop led by TESS DE QUINCEY and FRANK VAN DE VEN
… 3 – 9 March, 2012…
SYDNEY
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
FLOAT – slipping through time
A solo piece on water that articulates different beings connected vertically through time and horizontally through space.
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
BUTOH ON SCEEN
Free DVD screening hosted by butoh artist TESS DE QUINCEY
– SATURDAY 9 JULY at 1pm –
Domain Theatre, Art Gallery of NSW
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
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.







