PRUE LANG
YONI
YONI
Concept/choreography: Prue Lang
Performers: Mikaela Carr, Lauren Langlois, Amber McCartney, Tara Jade Samaya
Dramaturgical Assistant: Philipa Rothfield
Music: Canticles of Ecstasy - Hildegard Von Bingen, Kitana - Princess Nokia
This is a feminist work, thought kinaesthetically in relation to the female body and female fi gures from 12th century until now. It is driven by a longstanding commitment to feminism, and a preoccupation with games. Games function here as tools to frame, explore, question and contrast the physicality of subjects both intellectually and within time and space. It is about now, then, and the not-yet of a feminist future.
PRUE LANG graduated from the VCA in Melbourne, before joining Meryl Tankard's Australian Dance Theatre. In 1996 she moved to France to work with the Choreographic National Centre in Angers, Compagnie Cre-Ange Paris, as well as her own independent projects in Paris. In 1999 she began an important collaboration with William Forsythe as a leading soloist and choreographer of the Frankfurt Ballett and The Forsythe Company. Since 2005 she has been working as an independent choreographer presenting her work in international festivals, theatres, galleries and museums throughout the world including HAU Berlin, Tanzplatform Deutschland, STUK Belgium, Theatre National de Chaillot Paris, Rencontres choregraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis and the TATE Modern, London. She has been voted 'Most Outstanding Dancer,' 'Most Innovative Production' and 'Most Outstanding Choreographer' by Europe's Balletanz's Annual Critics' Survey and awarded in Hybrid Art by Ars electronica. In 2014 she moved back to Melbourne to continue her work in Australia
This work was later developped into a full length work with the title Project F and presentet at Abbotsford Convent as part of the 2020 Dancehouse KCA Public Program. READ MORE
Dancehouse, Melbourne - March 2018 - all rights reserved
Documentation by Cobie Orger.