R e s e a r c h / E x p e r i m e n t s
Writings about ongoing research, experiments, collaborations, projects, mind-wanderings, fantasies…
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17 December 2011
AUNTS IS DANCE
I perform at the infamous performance party Aunts regular at the Secret Works Loft in Brooklyn NY alongside about 20 other tantalizing artists. For this piece I invited the audience to give me a sonic bath and then I did a dance of energy. I abducted a guy from the audience to do a pillow-talk script reading with me and then he telepathically choreographed a dance onto me. The performance was called:
THIS IS YOU
THIS IS ME
THIS IS YELLOW
Thank you to my conspirator Dave Levinson for script and costume development. Here’s a video of the night.
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22 May 2011
ELECTRIC
Electric is a project initiated by Chay-Ya Clancy with support from the City of Yarra and Dancehouse. Electric invites performers, and viewers to explore the notion of being alive, engaged, in circuit. Finding ways of seeing life anew, in this moment now, us, here, together.
For Electric, I was joined by performers Rennie McDougall and Jason Hood for an experiment that uses performance improvisation, the attention of the audience, and methods of telepathy and clairvoyance to explore the seen and unseen transmittance happening between bodies.
The performance was called:
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August 2010 and February 2011
RESEARCH RESIDENCY WITH MIGUEL GUTIERREZ
Over two separate occasions, I was fortunate to have the extraterrestrial-art-superstar Miguel Gutierrez (NYC) working with me in Melbourne. This happened through a CultureLAB residency at Arts House which is also supported by the Australia Council for the Arts. This time supported Miguel and I to explore the convergence of our practices, ideas and obsessions with the paranormal/supernatural. We joined the power of our minds and the mystical, erotic and poetic energies of our bodies for 4 weeks of talking, dancing, writing and thinking about the unseen, the non-rational and the nature of improvisation. We performed two 1 hour showings to audiences on March 8.
Photos by Rowan Young and Tim Jomartz Knowles
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20-21 May 2010
24 HOURS
In April/May 2010, Jo Lloyd curated a project called 24 Hours for Dancehouse in Melbourne. Jo invited 4 choreographers: Natalie Cursio, Shelley Lasica, Phillip Adams and myself, to conceive and create a performance work over 24 hours and present it to an audience in the final hour. For my 24 Hours I created a solo (that is not a solo) and collaborated with artists:
Nick Roux: Sound
Mila Faranov: Costume
Brooke Stamp: Outside Eye
The experience was INTENSE to say the least. It provoked me to attempt something that was buzzing in my subconscious. To permit the creation of a performance that engages explicitly with the non-rational part of my experience, knowledge and how that comes out into action, perception and being with an audience. I knew I wanted to make a solo that wasn’t a solo, a dance or action that occurred between me and an audience. An experiment with energy, consciousness with supernatural intentions to move/change the world. The performance is called either: 24 HOURS TO SAVE THE EARTH or HOLD HANDS AND SAY YES! or ONE BIG WISTFUL CHANGE. I can’t decide yet and probably won’t.
Martyn Coutts wrote: “As he (Luke) mentioned later on – the show could not have happened without the audience, and this is the great thing about this work. If there was no audience he would still be lying under one hundred chairs talking into a microphone.” go to Martyn’s blog to read his whole account of the project and this performance.
Photos by Tim Jomartz Knowles
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