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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…
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“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
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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
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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…
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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 &…
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hipsync @ Tertiary Dance Week
For those of you who missed out on my recent season in the red train… or those who just want another look… I am presenting a gallery-tailored version at Dancehouse as part of Tertiary Dance Week Dance Interrogations at Dancehouse Nov 16 & 17 at 5pm. Information Bookings: info@dancehouse.com.au I am also running a Shared…
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Dance Interrogations in its second week
The Melbourne Fringe may be over… but the Dance Interrogations continue in the red train at CERES Thursday 10 – Saturday 12 October at 7pm. Bookings through Trybooking
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The Little Con express
Two special durational performances in the red train at Ceres featuring some of Melbourne’s foremost improvisers.The Little Con are a collective of dance improvisation artists who presented monthly performances at Cecil Street Studio between 2005–2010. Some of the original members return (Dianne Reid, Ann-maree Ellis & Shaun McLeod) joined by Dani Cresp, Melinda Smith, Sophie…
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Hipsync Screendance Exhibition
In tandem with my season of Dance Interrogations in the Synergy Gallery’s red train at Ceres, I will be exhibiting my back catalogue of 33 screendance works from 1993 – 2012. The exhibition is open between 1-4pm Wed-Fri in the first 2 weeks of October (2-4 & 9-11). I will be there during those hours…
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Dance Interrogations @ Melbourne Fringe
Thought-provoking, quirky, original; this is intimate dance at its best’ Dance Interrogations is a real-time dance and video event created and performed by Dianne Reid. This boutique performance experience brings the audience into forensic range of the dancing body. Her surfaces animated by fable and fiasco, projected image and prophetic gibberish; an awkward adagio between…