Tess de Quincey

Tess de Quincey

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

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

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

FLOAT – slipping through time

A solo piece on water that articulates different beings connected vertically through time and horizontally through space.

12 PAWS + 2 FEET – dogs bodyweather

12 PAWS + 2 FEET – dogs bodyweather

a performance by LEO, FLAME & TROTSKY with TESS DE QUINCEY

RESOUND

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

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

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

X-SPECIES

X-SPECIES

a performance by Tess de Quincey & Jim Denley as part of the BAT-HUMAN PROJECT…


WHIP IT

WHIP IT

dancer Tess de Quincey double bass Sam Pettigrew

PULSE

PULSE

Tess de Quincey & Stuart Grant perform in the Grafitti Tunnel, The University of Sydney
for ADSA-Australian Drama Studies Association Conference

BUGGER WE

BUGGER WE

an essentially vague performance; an inexact mag; persistent chatter; interferences
between dancer Tess de Quincey and academic Stuart Grant


BREATH

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

THE DE QUINCEY TAPES

A video installation by John Gillies in collaboration with Tess de Quincey photos Mari Velonaki

NERVE 9

NERVE 9

invites you into a feminine space, an environment where body and textuality coexist.


is & is2

is & is2

An hour of masterly drawn movement and image where the pen never leaves the page…

ANOTHER DUST

ANOTHER DUST

Rigorously anti-humanistic in conception, de Quincey presented an alien body, the body as phenomena.

MOVEMENT ON THE EDGE

MOVEMENT ON THE EDGE

There cannot be less movement to tell such a complex tragedy without words.


A SEA CHANGE

A SEA CHANGE

A performance for 12 dancers & 2 musicians