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28/10/2003

Dancers are Space Eaters 03

Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts PICA, Perth

International contemporary dance festival - perth
October 29 - November 15, 2003

Dance are space eaters puts the space back into dance through a multiplicity of approaches that celebrate real and virtual bodies and the infinite variety of contemporary life. PICA invites you to immerse yourself in three weeks of contemporary dance theatre - funky moves, hot design, mobile bodies - featuring leading international and national dance artists and the best of WA's emerging talent.

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FREE EVENTS

OPENING FUNCTION
Wednesday 29 October 6 - 8pm
Free Admission

PICA invites you to the opening celebration of Dancers are space eaters featuring:
* "Nightshift", Wendy McPhee and George Poonkhin Khut's extraordinarily beautiful video installation;
* A welcoming performance by the fabulously slapstick "Two Suits";
* To be launched by the Minister of Culture & the Arts, the Hon. Sheila McHale, MLA
* A short address by Neil Guard, Executive Director of Healthway, the WA Health Promotion Foundations.

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Two Suits

choreographed and performed by David Corbett & Paul Roberts Two blokes in beaut suits materialise in all nooks and crannies of PICA, before shows, during intermission and at random. They're two average guys from the office but something's not quite the norm - for them Saturday Night Fever ain't just for weekends! They love to dance and dance they do, managing fiscal discussions with a handstand, and running corporate takeovers with hours of non-stop solid gold disco-dance. If you see them, stop and watch; they're a show wherever they go.

Free admission - PICA central space
Wednesday October 29 - Saturday November 1 @ random times

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*** Nightshift
Wendy McPhee and George Poonkhin Khut (NSW)

multiple screen video installation
Through the central character of the video images, performer Wendy McPhee draws viewers into a series of overlapping meditations on the themes of femme performance, solitude and longing, incorporating an eclectic range of imagery from Karaoke bar pop-music fantasies, to voyeuristic peepshow and surveillance style footage. Reversed texts confound preconceptions about the correct perspective from which to view the images, encouraging audiences to observe from numerous perspectives: front, behind, sideways, and through different layers of projected imagery. George Khut's accompanying soundtrack creates a trance-like atmosphere blending slowly undulating layers of mechanical clicks and pulses with the sounds of distant bar room ambience and mysteriously indecipherable whispers.

Free admission - PICA central space
Tuesday - Sunday, 11am - 7pm and during performances
Opening: Wednesday 29 October, 6 - 8pm
Exhibiting: October 30 - November 16

*** Raimund Hogue (GER)
Throwing the Body into the Fight

presented in association with the Melbourne International Arts Festival Dramaturg with Pina Bausch for more than a decade, Raimund Hogue, performer, playwright, journalist and performer, is widely regarded as the 'father of European performance and contemporary dance'. Working with intimate material that draws upon historical events, his own life and the unique characteristics of his body, "Throwing the body into the fight" explores the performative space where laughter, tears and profound personal reflection sit side by side.

"Crossing borders had always attracted me - in my own life and in the biographies of others. For example such as Pier Paolo Pasolini. "Throwing the body into the fight", he wrote once. Pasolini's sentence was for me an impulse and encouragement to go on stage and to work with my body. I thought I could express with my own body that which I couldn't express with the body of a dancer. Now I have the impression that I have different and sometimes more possibilities than a person with a beautiful body. I can work on stage with beauty in a very special way because there is always this body as a contrast to this beauty. In my Lecture performance "Throwing the body into the fight" I present scenes from my solo pieces "Meinwärts" (1994), "Chambre séparée" (1979), "Lettere amorose" (1999), "Another Dream" (2000) and the pieces "Dialogue with Charlotte" (1998) and "Sarah, Vincent et moi" (2002). Between scenes I will talk about my work, my sources, my themes, my body and desire." - Raimund Hogue, September 2003

Wednesday, 29 October @ 8pm
$20 full, $15 conc, $12 PICA members (bookings essential: seats are limited)

*** Showcase One (WA)

Chasing Terror (20 min)
choreographed by Olivia Millard
performed by Claudia Alessi, Paea Leach, Olivia Millard, Katie Moore and Rachel Ogle
Based on ideas of fear and courage, "Chasing Terror" explores the things we are frightened of and our reactions to them. The fear, which is a result of thinking about something again and again.
"Chasing Terror" uses dance in its absolute form to explore these ideas.

Contact Me (20 min)

choreographed by Danielle Micich performed by Danielle Micich, Felicity Bott.
Exploring ideas around communication and contact, "Contact Me" was originally created in 1998 funded by ARTSWA as a creative development.

Commentary (10 min)
choreographed by Paul O'Sullivan
performed by Paul O'Sullivan & Tim Rodgers
Two men and a sports metaphor! A duet with live commentary on the theme of competitiveness.

N_TN_GLD (11 min)
choreographed and performed by Sete Tele & Rachel Arianne Ogle
The permutations of movement based on SMS text messaging developed into short dance/ movement phrases.

The View Outside (15 min)
choreographed by Tim Rodgers
performed by Paea Leach, Paul Blackman, Tim Rodgers and Paul O'Sullivan
"The View Outside" explores the different facets of random street characters and their possible interplay. Originally presented with the assistance of the WA Ballet.

Thur 30 and Fri 31 October @ 8pm
$20 full, $15 conc., $12 PICA members
Showcase 1 & 2 double pass: $25

*** Showcase Two (France - WA)

Direct from Paris via the Melbourne Festival, charismatic soloist Australian born Ros Crisp's affection for small shapes and simple movement in 'raft' sets the stage for a program by some of Australia's most highly calibrated dance artists including Sue Peacock, Holly Croft and Emiliana Lione.

raft (25 min)
choreographed and performed by Rosalind Crisp
"raft" is a dance composed of three visual "songs", distilled from my inquiry into movement vocabulary. The focus of my inquiry is the body. The creation of movement for each "song" by taking elements from the others and transposing them into different parts of my body, in the process seeking a different rhythmic structure and poetic quality. Each "song" is distinctive in itself, yet connected to the others by being sourced in their relationship to one another and to a common compositional inquiry. "raft" was commissioned by French producer, Michel Caserta of La Biennale Nationale de Danse du Val-de-Marne, Paris, and presented for the Australien festival in Paris 2002.

Swallow (12 min)
choreographed and performed by Sue Peacock
concept by Sue Peacock and Andrew Lake
The decision to not speak, but instead to swallow creates an undercurrent of unrest, a desire to take flight and move on to warmer climes. The flight is then either an act of escape or a statement of resolution.

Did It Happen (5 min)
choreographed by Emiliana Lione
performed by Nicola Wade, Tim Rodgers and David Mack
Every day, people follow their own routines and rituals that keep them in their comfort zone. Often the smallest obstacles can throw them off centre and into chaos, but through the chaos and mayhem a rhythm can be found with focus and awareness, to return the balance and harmony.

Frag (5 min)
choreographed by Holly Croft
performed by Natalie Clarke, Jayne Cooper, Fiona Moffitt, Jacinta Ross-Ehlers, Nicola Wade and Holly Croft
ideas from a computer¦ when it is overloaded, it starts getting a little confused, putting files in the wrong places and not working up to its reliable standard. The dancers represent the graph that appears when you need to Defrag. They move only forwards and backwards never delineating. 'Frag' is an exploration into the sterile mind of the computer.

Saturday 1 November @ 8pm and Sunday 2 November @ 6pm
$20 full, $15 conc, $12 PICA members

*** Cazerine Barry (VIC)
Sprung (34 min)

The WA premiere of Cazerine Barry's dazzling interactive exploration of the body in real and projected space, "Sprung's" exploration of virtual real estate will entertain and amaze you. "Sprung" is a digital media/theatre performance where the story evolves via parallel elements of live action, sound and image projection to create a seemingly 3D space.

Wednesday 5 - Saturday 8 November @7pm
$20 full, $15 conc., $12 PICA members
OR a night pass for 'Sprung' & 'Remember Me' @ $25

*** Gerard Veltre (VIC)
Remember me (55min)

directed by Gerard Veltre
performed by Gerard Veltre, Maria Randall, Natalija Alavuk & Christian Kabamba

"Remember me", is a dance/physical theatre performance that juxtaposes text, dance, elements of hip-hop and projection to explore consumerism and cultural difference. "Remember me" is a heart felt fiction. On the surface it is a simple love story: a man and woman meet, they fall in love and when the woman is asleep the man opens her suitcase and out of it comes a lover from her past.

Wed 5 - Sat 8 November @ 9pm
$20 full, $15 conc, $12 PICA members

*** Platform and Forum (WA)

A Sunday afternoon forum at 4pm to discuss the 'state of the art' and what might be meant by the concept of innovation in dance (speakers to be advised) followed by high tea at 5pm and at 6pm, Platform performances, a series of short and punchy performances through which Dancers are space eaters celebrates the cream of WA's young & emerging dance artists.

Feelin' Good (10 min)
choreography by Roxanne Carless
performed by Roxanne Carless, Gillian Alexy, Aimee Smith, Keira Mason-Hill, Kylie Wilson and Bianca Martin

molly and the light (35 min)
choreographed and performed by Molly Tipping

the-state-of-in-between (5 min)
choreographed and performed by Aimee Smith

Kind of Entwined (5 min)
choreographed by Jessyka Watson-Galbraith
performed by Jessyka Watson-Galbraith and Aimee Smith


Sunday 9 November: Forum @ 4pm, High Tea @ 5pm, Platform Pieces @ 6pm
$20 full, $15 conc., $12 PICA & Ausdance members

*** Lucy Guerin Inc (VIC)

Melt
performed by Kirstie McCracken & Stephanie Lake

"Melt" describes a rise in temperature from freezing to boiling with each degree explored physically and temperamentally. It is an intensely focused and dynamic duet for two women, whose detailed gestures and movements are further animated by precision motion graphics. The relationship between them is mercurial - sometimes in tune, sometimes conflicted. Progression and change are the essential themes of this work, and the transformations that inevitably occur through exposure to external forces.

The Ends of Things
performed by Trevor Patrick, Stephanie Lake, Kirsty McCracken & Byron Perry

"The Ends of Things" is the narrative of an ordinary man whose life is drawing to a close. His world is reduced to a small room from which he continues his mundane daily activities with painstaking, fastidious monotony, remembering in fragments the life that is behind him. Three phantom figures gradually encroach upon his ordered existence, collapsing the boundaries between reason and chaos, unleashing wild and humorous fantasies, and finally consigning him to the borderless expanses of the empty stage. The Ends of Things explores the emotional resonances of endings, which occur more often in quiet than in crisis.

Lucy Guerin - Director /Choreographer * Franc Tetaz - Sound Score * Michaela French - Motion Graphic Design * Angharad Wynne-Jones - Producer * Megafun - Production Management * Carly Heard - Stage Manager *

Thursday 13 - Saturday 15 November @ 8pm
$20 full, $15 conc, $12 PICA members

*** Workshops

Ros Crisp and Andrew Morrish (AUS/EU)
Two workshop series will be held by Paris based, Australian dance artists Ros Crisp and Andrew Morrish.

Ros Crisp will be leading "Working the terrain between improvisation and choreography" from October, 28-31, 9am-1pm daily. This workshop will be traversing some of the links between body-work and improvisation, focusing on generating movement material from primarily a physical inquiry, and intensifying the quality of an improvisation through clarity of focus and breadth of compositional choice.

"Performing Unplugged" is the title of Andrew Morrish's workshop to be held from November 11 - 15, 9am - 1pm daily. This workshop will explore improvisation using movement and language as a performance practice. Attention will be given to form and structure rather than content. Skills in opening to free flow without reference to meaning will be established. Suitable for people interested in deepening their understanding of themselves as a performer at any level, and finding resources that will enrich their improvisational performing.

Both workshops are $150 full; and $100 concession, PICA & Ausdance members To register your interest, contact PICA on (08) 9227 9339 or email

festival information and bookings available from PICA on (08) 9227 9339

Special pricing on all events is also available for Ausdance & PICA members Program details are correct at the time of printing but may be subject to change.

Dancers are space eaters is produced and presented by the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) in association with 'Play it Safe". PICA wishes to gratefully acknowledge the support and assistance of the following organisations in the development of this festival event: the Federal Government through the Australia Council its arts funding and advisory body and Playing Australia, its performing arts touring organisation; sponsorship from Healthway to promote the FPWA's 'Play it Safe' message; State Government arts funding agencies including ArtsWA in association with the WA Lotteries Commission, NSW Ministry for the Arts, Arts Victoria and Arts Tasmania; Melbourne International Arts Festival, Vitalstatistix: National Women's Theatre, STRUT Dance, Performance Space, Sydney, Carnivale Multicultural Arts, Western Australia Ballet, Black Swan Theatre, B&H Australia, and Goundrey Fine Wine.

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