Public Program 2022: Dancehouse

CONVERSATIONS

Lucy, Bebe, Tere and Laurie: In Conversation
with Lucy Guerin, Bebe Miller, Tere O’Connor, Laurie Uprichard

28 June 2022
10—11:30am
FREE

Local dance luminary, Lucy Guerin moved to New York in 1989 and for seven years danced with Tere O’Connor Dance, and Bebe Miller Company whilst also beginning to create her first choreographic works.To celebrate the fifth Keir Choreographic Award, KCA Jury Member Laurie Uprichard — also a producer, curator and programmer in New York at the time — invites a conversation with Lucy, Tere and Bebe to reflect on the transition from dancing to choreography. Three prominent and celebrated international choreographers share their history, influences, and enduring embodied relationships to investigate the kinds of chemistry needed for successful collaborations between creators and performers.

Lucy, Bebe, Tere and Laurie was part of the KCA public program’s free talks and is presented by Dancehouse.

Is this working? A dance dramaturgy longtable
with nanako nakajima & guests

29 June 2022
6-7.30pm
FREE

Academic, artist, writer and KCA Jury member Nanako Nakajima in a long table discussion about dance and dramaturgy. A dance dramaturgy expert, Nanako launched a bilingual website on the subject dancedramaturgy.org and has received the Special Commendation of the Elliott Hayes Award in 2017 for Outstanding Achievement in Dramaturgy from the Literary Manager and Dramaturgs of the Americas. For this long table, Nanako has invited a handful of dance artists, thinkers, makers, and dramaturgs from divergent disciplines, practices and contexts to discuss and share methods and contemporary approaches and practices of dance dramaturgy. 

Long table guests include: Antony Hamilton, Rachael Fensham, LIM How Ngean and Priya Srinivasan.

Is this working? A dance dramaturgy long table was part of the KCA public program’s free talks and is presented by Dancehouse and Chunky Move.

Why Do We Dance?
A conversation for artists with Lemi Ponifasio

29 June 2022
10am—12pm
40$

Acclaimed artist and KCA Jury member Lemi Ponifasio in conversation about dance as a space for developing human consciousness. Lemi Ponifasio is a prolific theatre director, choreographer and artist and the founder and director of MAU, which focuses on arts and culture, avant-garde, and philosophy. MAU seeks to transform the theatre’s power source, challenge the authority of theatre, and re-examine and question our current concept of what is human. It organizes the creation of new art, workshops, symposia, and community meetings; activities to build new systems of knowledge and new cultures to confront the economic-political-cultural-scientific and the ecological crisis of our time. Artists interested in these ideas, practices and principles will join Lemi in a live conversation-come-workshop informed by Lemi’s body of practice.

MASTERCLASS

Masterclass
Eko Supriyanto

28—29 June 2022
1—4pm
$80

Join acclaimed performer, choreographer and KCA Jury member Eko Supriyanto in a two-day dance masterclass for professionals. Trained in Javanese court dances and the Indonesian martial arts of Pencak Silat since the age of seven, Eko’s performance career spans major works and tours throughout Indonesia, Europe, America and the Asia Pacific. Eko holds a PhD in Performance Studies (2014) from Gadjah Mada University and Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Dance and Choreography from the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures (2001). Eko’s career stretches between major commercial productions to contemporary experimental work and dance research projects. Eko has worked with Garin Nugroho, Peter Sellars, John Adams, Arco Renz, Lemi Ponifasio, and Madonna. Eko will also co-lead, with Lucy Guerin, the Naarm/Solo Dance Exchange, a long-term reciprocal choreographic exchange between Australian and Indonesian dance artists across 2022-23.