PAEA LEACH
one and one and one
one and one and one
Concept/choreography: Paea Leach
Performers: Rhiannon Newton and Paea Leach
Poetry and Performance Poet: Candy Royalle
Lighting consultant: Bosco Shaw
Paea Leach's work is driven by the poetics of the body and the physicality of language. one and one and one is a trio for two dancers and one poet, in which the rhythms of poetry become a score activating the dancers' movements. Paea's choreography encourages the language of poetry to move through, between and within the body. Meaning becomes disrupted, opened up, challenged and changed. Paea looks to the dancing body as an ethical force, a way to regenerate thought and action against the demands placed on the body by contemporary society. Her work becomes 'an effort to speak to and for many bodies… Political, personal, dispersed: danced'.
PAEA LEACH has pursued and developed a choreographic practice and voice with a hybrid collection of makers and thinkers. The body as a site of research, the integration/interrogation of language in process and encountering the 'real' in performance are strong motivators. Recently she undertook a residency with Rhiannon Newton TRIP in Tasmania, co-created Beast #3 for Move Me improvisation festival (Perth, 2014) and was commissioned by Chunky Move's Next Move season – making 'the lines of birds' in collaboration with experimental musicians Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey, her first site-specific dance-work (2014). She collaborated with Dr Jodie Mc Neilly (Phd Philosophy/choreography) on a solo work Babylon'for Dance Meets Music (Sydney and presented a solo as part of IOU Independent dance makers at UNSW – a meditation on performance, honesty and 'enoughness' following a huge injury (2013). As a young choreographer, she made multiple short experimental works through STRUT (Perth) and produced the SOLOS project with Dr Simmon Ellis and Shanon Bott (2004-2006). She was an Asialink recipient 2011 in Cambodia and has been harnessing writing-dancing with Jo Pollitt for six years. She has worked extensively (15 years) as a performer and collaborator in Australia and Europe, most recently touring extensively with EASTMAN/Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (2010-2014, Belgium).
Dancehouse, Melbourne - March 2016 - all rights reserved
Documentation by Cobie Orger.