JO LLOYD
That’s Her Name
“That’s Her Name”, 2020
Choreographer: Jo Lloyd
Performers: Daniel Lloyd, Boyd Lloyd & Sarah Kaur
Composer/Sound Design: Fabulous Martin
Lighting Design: Wonderful Joelle
Documentation: Cobie Orger
That’s Her Name investigates the body as an inscriptive surface augmented through movement and materials. Lloyd uses unfamiliar methodologies to uncover physical vocabularies and behaviours between the three performers, to display the unresolved body in performance, serving as a dialogue and reflective encounter for those viewing and being viewed. Using fictional and actual history as stimulus, physicalities are activated based on the real and imagined. Fictional characters are performed as evidence of this history. Language is used simultaneously as a system and as a proposition for the work, to compose the sound score, choreograph the costumes and direct the action. The dance is an ongoing negotiation between performers — materials towards a choreography. What will occur has the potential to be a two-hour opera in 20 minutes, the preparation for a public speech, a crime scene, or all of these.
Jo Lloyd is an influential Melbourne dance artist working with choreography as a social encounter, revealing behaviour over particular durations and circumstances. Her work has been presented in gallery spaces and theatres internationally. Her recent work ‘OVERTURE’ (Arts House 2018 and Melbourne Festival 2019), received three Green Room Awards and a Helpmann Award nomination. In 2018 Jo received an Australia Council Dance Fellowship. Jo is a Resident Artist at The SUBSTATION.
Dancehouse, Melbourne - March 2018 - all rights reserved
Documentation by Cobie Orger.