2012 Space Residents

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Antony Hamilton with Melanie Lane

Over February & March Antony undertook the final rehearsal/creative development for the premiere of his new work Black Project 1, at Arts House as part of the double bill Clouds Above Berlin alongside Melanie Lane's Tilted Fawn
Performance dates: 7 - 11 March

Shian Law

April / May 2012
Shian is using his Residency for a creative development stage of BODY OBSCURE OBJECT. This is a part of his Personal Mythology series, a series of abstracted choreographic performances that simulate the form of rituals such as processions, ceremonies, and rites without prescribing a symbolic function and meaning.
Shian presents BODY OBSCURE OBJECT as a part of The Greater Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere in the 2012 Next Wave Festival. During this time he will be mentored by Jo Lloyd, under the JUMP mentorship program. Shian was recently named 'Dancer to Watch' by Chris Boyd in Dance Australia.

Title: BODY OBSCURE OBJECT
Choreographer/director: Shian Law
Dancers: Sarah Aiken, Rebecca Jensen, Melissa Jones, Shian Law, Peter wilson
Sound design: Duane Morrison
Costume Designer: Michelle Boyde
Set/Lighting designer: Matthew Adey

2011 Space Residents

Lee Serle

Lee Serle began the first stage development of a new work P.O.V. Lee worked with dancers Lily Paskas, Kristy Ayre and Rennie McDougall. The creation of this work was instigated by his Rolex Protege Mentorship with Trisha Brown, New York.

Shelley Lasica

Shelley's Residency was used for a creative development stage of her latest work Collect presented at the Malthouse Theatre in November 2011.

COLLECT is a proposition toward a performance for all participants: the audience and the performers. How do we know what we know, how do the different ways of knowing reveal themselves in the act of performance and the act of witnessing performance?
Shelley Lasica November 2011

Luke George

Luke George remounted NOWNOWNOW for the 2011 Dance Massive season at Dancehouse. NOWNOWNOW is also a Lucy Guerin Inc commission.

Caroline Meaden, Alice Dixon, Melissa Jones with Nat Cursio

'The three weeks we spent at Lucy Guerin Inc was the beginning of what has now become Blizzard.

Blizzard is an experimental dance work in progress. Blizzard places three women in a stark environment that evokes, through its staging and choreography, a perception of a potentially hostile surrounding. The dancing bodies are acute listening devices; they are (as a group and as individuals) sites of study/questioning/curiosity... Blizzard is an intricate, delicate work of abstract dance yet also a container for traces of a narrative that tap into the viewer’s imagination, without dictating an interpretation.' Alice Dixon, Melissa Jones and Caroline Meaden

Rennie McDougall

Emerald City (working title)

This residency was Rennie's second development of his new work Emerald City.
Performers: Lilian Steiner, Lily Paskas, James Shannon and Paula Lay.

Emerald City concerns a feeling of sedation and of diminishing visceral experience at the hands of constant visual stimulation. We watch, read and examine our world - or other worlds that people have imagined for us - from a comfortable distance, while 3D virtual-reality and online networking has infiltrated every facet of our social encounters.

The most influential of the synthetic visual environments is the cinematic landscape - our ultimate escape from reality where we drink in saturations of colour, movement and sound as a distraction from our physical present. The Wizard of OZ is a key reference. The moment that Dorothy steps into the technicolour world of OZ is an enjoyable parallel to the fantastical transportation that the cinema can achieve.

This project is two simultaneous studies. The first, for performer, is a test of our potential to awaken and relish in our sensory encounters. We aim to fully realise our visceral potential via the uninhibited movement language that we create through improvisation. The second enquiry, for audience, is how can we engage with dance beyond its visual seduction?

A chaotic and centrifugal movement language developed, which will lead us into a futher development in the second half of 2011.

This project has also been supported by Next Wave, Arts Victoria and Moriarty’s Project.




Born and raised in Melbourne, Rennie graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2009. Whilst studying, Rennie began working with Phillip Adams at BalletLab and has since then worked with the company during developments and performances of Miracle, Aviary, Above, and Amplification. Rennie has also performed with Chunky Move (Mortal Engine, Mix Tape), Luke George (Now Now Now) and Phantom Limbs (The Memory Progressive), and has toured to New York, Hong Kong and Taipei as well as national touring. Rennie has created work for Lucy Guerin Inc’s With the Lot in 2009 and Next Wave Festival’s Sports Club Project in 2010, both curated by Kyle Kremerskothen. Rennie has received the Australia Council for the Arts’ ArtStart grant as well as support from Arts Victoria to help him develop his own practice as a choreographer.

Natalie Cursio and Fiona Bryant

Natalie and Fiona used the Residency to work on a project concerned with flipping conventional hierarchical roles in dance making. In this instance, Fiona becomes responsible for directing a new dance work with Natalie as performer/collaborator. The Residency will help the pair to continue to establish their studio relationship; to understand the kind of conceptual and physical territory they wish to enter into; to illuminate, integrate, challenge and experiment with each other's working habits; and to plan for the trajectory of the work's future.

Paula Lay

Paula established a mentorship with Ros Warby as part of a 2010 Artstart grant and became interested in learning about her solo practice in the context of her work with Deborah Hay. Paula worked with Ros to develop a small version of an adaptation from the solo Monumental in a format that was similar to the Deborah Hay Solo Residency. Paul and Ros decided to work intensively for one week, with an open practice where they could invite other participants, and then work one on one learning an adaptation from Monumental. The second week Paula worked on the solo in the studio, allowing the tools of the performance practice to feed into the solo work. Throughout this residency there was a particular focus on process and developing an understanding of what it is for Paula to be in the studio on her own.

Brooke Stamp

James Brennan and Stephanie Lake

HOLY is the working title of a new performance created by James Brennan and Stephanie Lake. It marks the reunion of two artists ten years after their first collaboration – the highly successful PIGLET. The project tackles the subject of faith - diminished and evolving. Amongst its aims is the exposure of the personal consequences of a transition from belief to uncertainty, exploring what it means to still hold attraction for experiences of divinity, otherworldliness and rapture – outside of doctrine.

Choreography/ Direction: Stephanie Lake, James Brennan
Performers: Alisdair Macindoe, Amber Haines

James graduated from the VCA School of Drama in Acting in 2000. His original performance works have been presented in Australia and abroad. As performer and director he has worked in Australia, Europe/UK and the United States and is currently a member of Polish theatre company Gardzienice.

James was the recipient of the Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Theatre Fellowship in 2009.

Stephanie has danced in the works of Lucy Guerin Inc, Chunky Move and Balletlab for over 10 years, touring the world. She has made more than 20 short works for companies including Chunky Move, the VCA, Stompin and LGinc. She has also made several large scale public dance works involving hundreds of public participants. In 2010 she presented Mix Tape commissioned by Chunky Move.

2010 Space Residents

Antony Hamilton

INTERSECTION, a site specific dance work that invites the audience to ponder and meditate on the majesty and emptiness of the urban wasteland. It will be a work that honours and monumentalizes the city's forgotten places, and a fantastic vision of the urban environment as a kind of catacomb of cultures past.

Choreographer:Antony Hamilton
Performers: Melanie Lane, Alisdair Macindoe, Josh Mu and Lily Paskas
Composer: Robin Fox
Costume Designer: Paula Levis

Antony trained in dance in Sydney, Perth and New York. Since 1999 he has performed with the Australian Dance Theatre (Garry Stewart), Kage Physical Theatre (Kate Denborough), Chunky Move (Gideon Obarzanek) and Lucy Guerin Inc (Lucy Guerin) extensively throughout Australia and overseas.

As choreographer, he has worked both in Australia and abroad creating works for The Lyon Opera Ballet, Chunky Move, ADT, Dancenorth, LINK, The Victorian College of the Arts, Stompin and Rogue. He has also created short works for ADT’s Ignition seasons and Lucy Guerin Inc’s Pieces for Small Spaces seasons. In 2008 Antony directed and choreographed two full-length works Blazeblue Oneline and the Chunky Move commission I Like This co-directed by Byron Perry. In 2009 Blazeblue Oneline received two greenroom awards; Set and/or costume design, and Concept/Realisation.

Antony was the inaugural recipient of both the Russell Page Fellowship in 2004, and the Tanja Liedtke Fellowship in 2009. He was also winner of the Greenroom Award for Best Male Dancer in 2005, and the Helpmann Award for Best Male Dancer in 2009.

Antony Hamilton Projects

Luke George

Luke George was in residence with the second stage of the creative development for his work NOWNOWNOW

Can we be ‘in the moment’?

NOW NOW NOW is a new full length dance performance by choreographer Luke George that proposes this question to its performers and audience. We seek to be in the moment, yet through the pursuit of this, we move further and further away from it. George is drawn to the paradox of this notion and how it parallels the act of performance – which is happening both in real time between the audience and the performer, and yet is highly constructed.

Choreographer: Luke George
Performers: Kristy Ayre, Timothy Harvey and Luke George
Design and Production: Bluebottle
Dramaturge: Martyn Coutts

www.lukegeorge.net

The development of Now Now Now has been made possible through the generous support of The Keir Foundation, The Besen Family Foundation, Australia Council for the Arts and Lucy Guerin Inc.The first stage of development for this work was auspiced by Ausdance Victoria.

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Tim Darbyshire

Tim Darbyshire hails from Australia. In 1992 he joined his father in a mid-life crisis by participating in a rock musical about a schizophrenic woman. The inevitable arrival of adolescence caused the death of Tim Darbyshire’s swimming career. He was later formally educated at Queensland University of Technology and found a Bachelor of Creative Industries (Dance). His first independent performance creation Room Service was born in Space 39 in Melbourne. He packed his bags for such experiences as the DanceWEB Scholarship Program (Impulstanz 2006 and 2009), one year at Centre Nationale de Danse Contemporaine (France) and Victoria University’s Solo Residency program. These experiences provoked him to consider and reconsider various methods of creation and practice. Recently he has been working in France, Portugal and Norway within the collaborative framework of Sweet and Tender Collaborations. He has been developing a solo work entitled Buckets and Other Things as well as working as a performer for David Wampach’s Battement and Meg Stuarts Re-Run. In 2008 he performed in two pieces created by Marianne Baillot and António Júlio for Portuguese dance company Companhia Instável (Unstable Company). In 2009 he performed for Eszter Salamon and Christine De Smedt’s Transformers project at Impulstanz. Recently he completed a Housemate Residency at Dancehouse in Melbourne.

Rennie McDougall

Rennie McDougall graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts with a Bachelor of Dance in 2009. In 2009, Rennie toured to the MONA FOMA festival with BalletLab, performing an excerpt from Miracle. Since then he has become a member of BalletLab, working on Aviary in collaboration with the Australian Ballet, as well as future projects and touring with Amplification and Miracle. Rennie has also worked with Chunky Move on the New Move commission choreographed by Stephanie Lake, Live to Air, as well as performing and touring Mortal Engine in 2010. Rennie is a member of Phantom Limbs, developing and performing in The Memory Progressive in 2010. Rennie has presented his own choreography in Lucy Guerin Inc.’s With the Lot, a chain-curated dance event by Kyle Kremerskothen, as well as at several First Run series. He is a collaborating artist and choreographer for The Sports Club Project for Next Wave festival in 2010.


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Holly Durant

Holly is a performer and creator in many contexts. She if a founding member of Rogue, a collective of dancers & choreographers that has created & performed work in Australia & overseas. Rogue have performed sell-out seasons in the 2009 Dance Massive Festival, the 2008 Next Wave Festival, and Lucy Guerin Inc's Pieces For Small Spaces in 2007. This year their work Ocular Proof directed by Holly will tour to Modafe festival in Korea and Macrobert Fest in Scotland.
Holly has collaborated with independent choreographers Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal, Ivan Thorley, Natalie Cursio and Susan Van Den Ham. Holly has also been making and performing numerous short works with Harriet Ritchie for Finucaine and Smith’s The Burlesque Hour, Salon D’dance, and The Carnival of Mysteries since 2008. In 2010 The Carnival of Mysteries will feature in the Melbourne International Arts Festival and The Burlesque Hour will be touring to Europe.

Alisdair Macindoe

Alisdair Macindoe and Adam Synnott are currently in residence with the second stage creative development of Bromance.

This work explores the life-long negotiation of trust, rivalry and responsibility that is built from childhood between brothers.

Bromance will premiere at this years Next Wave Festival.

Director/Choreographer/Sound Designer:Alisdair Macindoe
Choreographer/Computer and Video Affects: Adam Synnott
Dancers: Alisdair Macindoe, Jay Robinson, Lee Serle and Adam Synnott

Bromance is co- commissioned by Lucy Guerin Inc, Next Wave and Performance Space