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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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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
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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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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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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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…