IMPRO-EXCHANGE LAB 2021
improvisation research lab
led by Tess de Quincey
Fri 12 – Sun 14 MARCH 2021
REX CRAMPHORN STUDIO
The University of Sydney
IMPRO-EXCHANGE PERFORMANCE
One-Hour Performance
Sun 14 MARCH 3-4pm
REX CRAMPHORN STUDIO
The University of Sydney
LAND ARTS OF THE LIMESTONE COAST
curated by NICK KEYS. This is an exploration of the Limestone Coast region as a “changescape”, from limestone hydrogeology to indigenous land use to post-settlement practices of hydro-engineering.
PLATFORM 2019
a collection of short performances, artworks and extraordinary music
Saturday & Sunday 29 & 30 JUNE 3.30pm
2 performances only
at ARTICULATE PROJECT SPACE
497 Parramatta Rd, Leichhardt
THE GREAT ATTRACTOR No. 3
Let yourself be drawn into an octagonal world, an intimate century-old place for watching animals.
A FUTURE BODY
A FUTURE BODY is a forensic and poetic exploration of a future body as a collective ethic. The body/environment we are reshaping to our desires is reshaping us. FUTURE BODY explores this future body in sensation, imagination, octopus-empathy, prosthetic dialogues, dispersed intelligence of dancing bodies, and conversation with philosophers and scientists.
BOOK OF WATER
a collaboration bewteen sculptor Toni Warburton, photographer Vsevolod Vlaskine and dancer Tess de Quincey
IMPRO-EXCHANGE 2019
One-Hour Improvisation
SUNDAY 10 MARCH 2-3pm
at GLEBE TOWN HALL
160 St John’s Road, Glebe
IMPRO-EXCHANGE 2018
IMPRO-EXCHANGE 2018
One-Hour Improvisation
SUNDAY 2 DECEMBER
at GLEBE TOWN HALL
160 St John’s Road, Glebe
PLATFORM 2018
a collection of short performances, artworks and extraordinary music
Saturday & Sunday 23 & 24 JUNE 3.30pm
2 performances only
at ARTICULATE PROJECT SPACE
497 Parramatta Rd, Leichhardt
TANK SYMPOSIUM & PERFORMANCES
Explore how images arise in and around us, and how the body can be danced by these images and by the imagination!
IMPRO-EXCHANGE 2017
24-26 NOVEMBER
at UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY and CRITICAL PATH
The Drill, Rushcutters Bay
THE GREAT ATTRACTOR No. 2
PETER FRASER & DALE GORFINKEL – SOUNDS LIKE MOVEMENT
SUNDAY 17 SEPTEMBER at 6pm
KXT – Kings Cross Theatre
A gloriously unorthodox focus on listening and seeing that is simple, delightful and captivating…
PLATFORM 2017 – collection of short performances, installations, artworks and extraordinary music
SATURDAY & SUNDAY 15 & 16 JULY 2017 at 3pm
two performances only
ARTICULATE PROJECT SPACE
497 Parramatta Road, Leichhardt
VIGNETTES – a dance video
by dancer Linda Luke and filmmaker Martin Fox
SATURDAY & SUNDAY 8 & 9 APRIL at 5pm
as part of HAPPY HOUR at ReadyMade Ultimo
UNTITLED ECSTASY
an improvisation by dancer Tess de Quincey & composer Jim Denley
THURSDAY 16 MARCH 2017 at 8pm
as part of WHIP IT @ 107
Victoria Hunt’s TANGI WAI… the cry of water
Arts House – Meat Market, Melbourne
14 – 18 MARCH at 7pm
Organic, electrifying and utterly immersive, Australian/Maori artist Victoria Hunt presents a richly detailed, viscerally realised and large-scale work exploring mythology, cosmology and traditional wisdom.
IMPRO-EXCHANGE 2016
De Quincey Co and Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Cultural Space warmly invite you to share our research IMPRO-EXCHANGE 2016 10th Anniversary – One-Hour Performance Improvisation led by FRANK VAN DE VEN, BodyWeather Amsterdam SUNDAY 20 NOVEMBER performance 2-3pm refreshments 3-4pm at GLEBE TOWN HALL 160 St John’s Road, Glebe FREE ENTRY – no […]
JON ROSE – THE MUSEUM GOES LIVE – the Violin Museum that messes with your mind!
For the first time in Australia The Museum Goes Live is an exhibition and live performance series celebrating the distinctive, ground-breaking vision of audio pioneer, violinist, composer, artist, inventor and writer JON ROSE through his own Rosenberg Museum Housing over 800 artefacts of violin iconography, it is a cabinet of curiosities highlighting violin stories that are musically perverse, historically twisted or culturally critical.
PLATFORM 2016
PLATFORM 2016
Building on five extremely popular PLATFORM events presented at Fraser Studios 2010 – 2012, we are delighted to relaunch the first in a new series of short and informal works that bring together young as well as established aritsts.