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
THE GREAT ATTRACTOR No. 3
Let yourself be drawn into an octagonal world, an intimate century-old place for watching animals.
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…
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.
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.
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
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
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
WILD LAW INCUBATOR
Artists, producers and other experts from a range of different fields will attend a one-‐day incubator exploring WILD LAW. This diverse group of practitioners will collaborate in developing strategies aimed at its realisation.
…Saturday 4 May 2013…
ABC Studios
VISIONARIUM
a hybrid installation about dreams, memory and the imagination
… extended until Friday 20 April, 2012…
Sydney College of the Arts
NO COLD FEET – site-specific transformations
our highly acclaimed, recently performed piece is a site-specific event for families at dusk and can be adapted for different venues
GHOST QUARTERS – first dream of The Opium Confessions
a performance installation exploring the experience of destitution, addiction and the spatial uncanny.
THE WEATHER MIND
ephemeral moments from De Quincey Co performances, photographs by Mayu Kanamori & Russell Emerson
5-25 MAY, Kaleidoscope Gallery
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.
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