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IMPRO-EXCHANGE LAB 2021

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

WATER WRITES...

WATER WRITES…

a performance piece in response to the Land Arts of the Limestone Coast of SA

PLATFORM 2019

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

THE GREAT ATTRACTOR No. 3

Let yourself be drawn into an octagonal world, an intimate century-old place for watching animals.

PLATFORM 2018

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

IMPRO-EXCHANGE 2017

IMPRO-EXCHANGE 2017

One Hour Improvisation
SUNDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2-3pm
Free entry and refreshments


TANK SYMPOSIUM & PERFORMANCES

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

IMPRO-EXCHANGE 2017

24-26 NOVEMBER
at UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY and CRITICAL PATH
The Drill, Rushcutters Bay

THE GREAT ATTRACTOR No. 2

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

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

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

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

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.

ULTIMO HUM

ULTIMO HUM

Explore the quirky streets of ULTIMO through the body of a new generation of performers

JON ROSE – THE MUSEUM GOES LIVE – the Violin Museum that messes with your mind!

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

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.

METADATA – danced by physics

METADATA – danced by physics

METADATA – is coming…
De Quincey Co’s new interdisciplinary work will be presented by Dancehouse in Melbourne and by FORM Dance at Lennox-Riverside in Parramatta.

GATHERING GLEBE - site specific artworks

GATHERING GLEBE – site specific artworks

We invite you and your family to join us for a very special event this Sunday throughout Glebe Town Hall.


THE GREAT ATTRACTOR No 1

THE GREAT ATTRACTOR No 1

We’re excited to announce the first installment of The Great Attractor– a new interdisciplinary-performance series at KXT – Kings Cross Theatre.

The Great Attractor brings together some of Australia’s most inspiring and innovative artists from music, dance, poetry, photography, film, theatre and inter-media to transfuse their practice in a new interdisciplinary space. In each event, 4 artists from different disciplines are invited to interact and perform.

SOUND BITES BODY #23

SOUND BITES BODY #23

Join us for an extraordinary Saturday at the stuning beautiful international arts residency BigCi in the Blue Mountains. Initiated by WeiZen in 2012, Sound Bites Body is a shifting site event and improvisatory exchange between artists from the cities and mountains.

MOONDANCE - isotopic reflections

MOONDANCE – isotopic reflections

MOONDANCE was presented in 2015 in Sydney, Melbourne and Wagga Wagga.


BOX OF BIRDS – performance installation

BOX OF BIRDS – performance installation

a live performance work building on photographic works by photographer Anne Ferran
…Nov – Dec 2013…
Performance Space

FRAMED – illuminating our inner life

FRAMED – illuminating our inner life

Two women are literally framed, at the intersection of visual art, theatre, dance, music and installation. with TESS DE QUINCEY and VICTORIA HUNT
…. 8 -11 August, 2012….
RIVERSIDE THEATRE

MOUNTAIN & WATER

MOUNTAIN & WATER

at Bundanon as part of SITEWORKS 2014

Tess de Quincey and Tom Rivard working with artists, sciences and lawyers
…27-28 September, 2014…
Bundanon Trust