• Journal article “Improcinemania” published in Brolga 40

    Journal article “Improcinemania” published in Brolga 40

    I am pleased to announce that the latest edition of Brolga is online featuring six papers on dance improvisation. I am in good company with Melbourne colleagues Olivia Millard (also editor of this edition), Shaun McLeod, Jason Marchant, Peter Fraser and Anne Scott Wilson. Find it here Brolga 40

  • “Dance Here”

    “Dance Here”

    I recently worked on two events as part of the Yarra Ranges “Dance Here” program.            DancEscape—an interactive dance event with Melinda Smith in the Montrose Public hall. I designed and edited the video projections which framed our improvised dance duet. Here’s a short edit of the hour-long DancEscape program.  …

  • Flings with Strings

    Flings with Strings

    It was a wonderful night at the Abbotsford Convent’s ‘Oratory’ on Wednesday 17 February with special guest cellist Jo Quail. I also screened my latest screendance “Faldinghurst” featuring Gülsen Özer (also featuring the music of Jo Quail). See video documentation of the evening HERE

  • A response to “Dance Interrogations (a diptych)” by Jaye Hayes

    A response to “Dance Interrogations (a diptych)” by Jaye Hayes

        the disorient express an expression of proximity to the angle of loss the moving within parameters, without direction frame & shift, my body & hers I meet her gaze, I feel her grief mirror mine I am hollow I am rattled I am moving still I have taken this train before but this…

  • Dance Interrogations (a diptych)

    Dance Interrogations (a diptych)

    Just a month out from the Melbourne Fringe season of my next development of Dance Interrogations—this time (a diptych), a two part event across two locations, a couple of hours apart. This is a reworking and refinement of the “Dance interrogations (in the red train)” solo from 2013 and the 2014 duet “Unbecoming” with Melinda…

  • DSW

    DSW

    My 2015 screendance DSW gets its first (international) screening at the Dance Film Festival UK on Saturday August 8. It will be screened all day as part of the Private Cinema Installation at O2 Think Big Hub, Hoxton Square, London, N1 6NT. This screendance was created as an artefact of my evolving performance practice with Melinda…

  • Why do I dance?

    Why do I dance?

    Recently I interviewed Mel Smith at the National Dance Forum about why she dances…she, in turn, sent me some questions to answer. These are my answers: why do you dance? Why wouldn’t I? I can’t imagine not dancing…it has just bubbled out of me—how I feel, images in my head, dreams about places and people…

  • Music that moves me

    I saw/heard Jo Quail last night, UK based cellist/composer visiting Australia just now. It was a small but captivated audience at the Toff in Town venue but I kept thinking of how she would have resonated in the gorgeous Melbourne Recital Centre (where I heard/saw The Necks just over a week ago) I found Jo Quail’s…

  • “Unbecoming” Review in Indian news

    Indian dancer, arts activist and writer Mallika Sarabhai has written an article about my current performance work with Melinda Smith “Unbecoming” See the link to “The Week” here

  • Light Moves Screendance Festival

    I recently returned from this wonderful event, Ireland’s inaugural Festival of Screendance. Light Moves   It was another of many highlights in this busy year of travel and performances. Congratulations to curators Mary Wycherley and Jürgen Simpson, and Dance Limerick’s Jenny Traynor and Lisa Hallinan for such a rich and smooth running program. I was involved in…

  • International Journal of Screendance (Vol 4)

    International Journal of Screendance (Vol 4)

    At last Volume 4 of the International Journal of Screendance is up online My article “Fleshing the interface” sits alongside my close colleague Ami Skånberg Dahlstedt’s in the ‘Provocations and Viewpoints’ section IJS Vol 4

  • Unbecoming

    Unbecoming

    Melinda Smith and I are presenting a full-length performance, Unbecoming, at this year’s Melbourne Fringe Festival. This work has developed out of our shared improvisation practice (a three year history) and interacts with my ongoing research in screendance and performance. Unbecoming will be presented in the beautiful newest dance studio (Building B) at Deakin University in Burwood. It’s a little way out of town but…

  • Field Trip

    Field Trip

    I have just returned from a very full five weeks connecting with international dance and screendance colleagues. First stop was Angers, France for the World Dance Alliance Global Summit (July 6–11). A massive event including a couple of hundred conference papers and performances. I attended some great presentations from Gretchen Schiller, Sarah Whatley, Julia Ritter,…

  • Screenings in Glasgow & St Petersburg

    Screenings in Glasgow & St Petersburg

    Recent and upcoming international screenings of Back & Forth (2000) & A Broken Puzzle (2010) at Glasgow Tramway Arts as part of the Commonwealth Games Cultural program see the full program at Tramway and A Beautiful Day (2012) as part of an installation at the Aleksandrinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, curated by Maria Lukianova. So nice to feel…

  • Idill online dance short film competition

    Idill online dance short film competition

    My screendance “A Beautiful Day” featuring Melinda Smith with music by Stuart Day has been selected for the 2014 Idill online dance short film competiion. The jury selected 25 films out of over 220 and will award four prizes at the end of June. There is also an audience prize…you can vote for the films you…

  • ADF Screendance Anthology

    ADF Screendance Anthology

    ADF Video and Douglas Rosenberg have just released the next 5 DVDs of the Screendance Anthology, featuring films/videos shown at The International Screendance Festival, presented as part of The American Dance Festival in Durham, North Carolina. I am proud to say that 2 more of my works are included in this collection, Magnificent Sadness (2009)…

  • A love poem for the red rattler

    A love poem for the red rattler

        red rattler We began as a clumsy collision our bodies bumping and bruising with each dance of the carriage a rattling rumba… ti ti ka ti, ti ti ka ti, 1 2 & 3, now where are we? We try to make each other fit, etch ourselves upon the other We spend time…

  • Dance Interrogations (in the red train)

    Dance Interrogations (in the red train)

    I have just edited the video documentation of a couple of performances of the Melbourne Fringe Festival season in the red train at CERES watch on YouTube

  • 2013 round up

    2013 has been a big year of dance practice and performance… 10 Dance Interrogations performances —TDENNZA conference in Hamilton, New Zealand; Synergy Gallery in the red train for the Melbourne Fringe; & at Dancehouse for Tertiary Dance Week 15 improvised performances — 10 solos for Up the Ante & The Women’s Night at Cecil Street…

  • CLOCK IT performance

    I am performing as part of this event at Substation on Nov 27 21 short solos curated by David Wells

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