Melbourne's Dancehouse is in the midst of its second season of independent dance for the year, with a new program opening tomorrow (Thursday August 31). All three works deal in some way with time.
Solo artist Rosalind Crisp is presenting The real time it takes . . . , described as “her version of the retrospective”. Crisp has maintained a studio research practice for 40 years, at Omeo Dance Studio, Sydney, which she founded in 1996, at Atelier de Paris, where she was Associate Artist for 10 years, and now at the Orbost Studio for Dance Research which she founded in 2021 with partner Andrew Morrish. Since 2017, her solo and collaborative works have engaged with the environmental devastation occurring across her home country of East Gippsland, interacting with science and local knowledge to develop complex aesthetic responses.
Crisp is a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres (Knight/dame of the Arts), an honour which was awarded to her in 2015.
On the same dates but at an earlier hour, Georgia Rudd and Riyo Tulus Pernando are presenting Memories from Suspended Places, which “delves into the profound language of the body, unravelling the threads that bind us and bridging the gap between cultures”. This production was developed over two years in Indonesia and Melbourne.
Following this program, in September choreographer Gerard Van Dyck and collaborators will present A Book of Hours, “a revelatory screendance presentation", with a live score from Rubiks Collective, animation and visual media by Sal Cooper and music/sound by Kate Neal (with Couperin and Rameau). “The Book of Hours is your entropic guide to an unfolding lifestyle.There are rhythms of movement, textures of sound and eyelids of pictures,” the creators promise. In a not-so-former life Van Dyck was one half of Kage, which ran from 1997 to 2017.
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