Hipsync : Dianne Reid

Category: Dance Interrogations

  • Cabin Fever

    Adelaide Fringe 2019 I premiered a new site specific work a couple of weeks ago at the Adelaide Fringe to great responses from audiences and reviewers. Cabin Fever not only got 5 star reviews but also won the Adelaide Fringe Bank SA weekly award for Best Dance! Read the Adelaide Fringe 2019 Review by Theatre…

  • Dance Interrogations in Ten Days on the Island 2017

    Dance Interrogations in Ten Days on the Island 2017

      Dance Interrogations just keeps evolving thanks to the support of Salamanca Arts and Ten Days on the Island. The work began as my solo in an underground tunnel at the 2012 Adelaide Fringe, then a blacked out hotel room at the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe, relocated into a train carriage at the 2013 Melbourne Fringe, and…

  • A reflection on “Dance Interrogations 2016” —by Tamara Searle

    A reflection on “Dance Interrogations 2016” —by Tamara Searle

      Dance Interrogations 2016: In Contemplation of Fragility and Strength   What is our relationship to the inevitable fallibility of our body? What kind of support will we accept from technologies and from others? Through the lens of a stark and tender portrait of partnership, Dance interrogations 2016 examines our vulnerabilities and resilience.  It is…

  • Text used in Dance Interrogations 2016

    Text used in Dance Interrogations 2016

    The following is text used in the video or audio of Dance Interrogations 2016 by Dianne Reid and Melinda Smith.     Journey to Emma’s House (by Dianne Reid, 2008)   They are climbing a snowy slope. Their feet scrape, slip. Breath in little clouds in front of their faces. …women climbing, pioneers, no footprints…

  • 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

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…some audience responses

    “she is crawling towards me, she is taking a journey, it’s not sentimental, it’s an investigation in motion, she’s travelling through time. the landscape changes, the foundations sink, it makes me think about all the times I’ve wondered if it’s time to stop, but the rhythm continues under our feet, the dance takes us &…