Burlesque Ball – Melbourne Show #burlesque #theatre

Burlesque Ball

Starring:
Catherine D’Lish (Seattle),
Tigger! (New York),
Melody Mangler (Vancouver),
Imogen Kelly (Sydney),
Lola The Vamp (Melbourne),
Rita Fontaine (Sydney)
& Bella de Jac (Melbourne)

Melbourne 11th Nov

The final tease: www.burlesqueball.com

Sue Healey and the Curiosities

The Curiosities is a new performance work by Sue Healey, in collaboration with leading scientists, new media artists and dancers. Inspired by the processes of biological development and evolution, The Curiosities evokes the feeling of a surreal natural history museum.

Thur 29–Sat 31 Oct and Wed 4–Sat 7 Nov
Performance Space, CarriageWorks
245 Wilson Street Eveleigh, Sydney, NSW, AUS

Find out more at The Performance Space website

Interspecies: Artists Collaborating With Animals

If there was ever an event after my own heart, it’s one that marries concern for animals with creativity:

“Interspecies asks: Can artists work with animals as equals? If not, what is the current state of the human-animal relationship? It has recently been shown that humans are closer to the higher primates than previously thought, with chimpanzee and gorilla behaviour reflecting politics, deception and even possibly creativity. What does this mean to the way we see ourselves as one species inhabiting a planet in crisis? Interspecies uses artistic and participatory strategies to stimulate dialogue and debate, showing artists in contact with real animals and negotiating a new power relationship, questioning the way we view our interactions with animals during Darwin’s anniversary year.”

Interspecies has a whole shebang of London-based events planned for early October including: exhibitions, symposia, workshops and outings. Artists include: Nicolas Primat, Antony Hall, Kira O’Reilly, Ruth Maclennan, Beatriz da Costa, Rachel Mayeri + Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson.

Take Off Your Skin (TOYS)

Take Off Your Skin (TOYS): A Replication Project
Produced by Melbourne Fringe + WELL Theatre + FULL TILT

Japanese dance artist Yasuko Kurono is a replication artist: she uses “clones” of herself to stage public-oriented dance performances [sounds quite trippy, huh]. Kurono, who has been engaged in events like these since 1999, wants Melbournites to join in one such viral performance event during the week prior to Friday 2 October:

“Be a part of TOYS – a large public art performance. Join 100 performers and 20 assistants as we take over the streets of inner city Melbourne for one afternoon. We’ll even dress and preen you for the occasion. All you need to bring is enthusiasm.

To join us:

1. Read the information here about the different performer and assistant roles.
2. Fill in the form to let us know which part you want to play.

Then we’ll let you know all the details shortly.

If you have any queries, contact Producer Kath Papas at Melbourne Fringe before you register phone 9660 9600 email kath@melbournefringe.com.au.”

Critical Path: Choreographic Research Centre

“Critical Path is a choreographic research and development centre for dance artists in New South Wales, Australia. Based at The Drill, a large rehearsal space on the harbour in central Sydney, Critical Path’s program offers:

• Space and support for artists undertaking their own research

• Intensive laboratories and workshops facilitated by national and international artists

• Masterclasses with artists from dance and other disciplines

• Mentoring projects for choreographers to build new relationships with peers

• Discussion events and opportunities for artists to share practice and ideas.”

Complimenting Strangers

A shiny happy video showing how strangers react to random compliments:
“Just having fun being friendly to strangers, hoping to brighten their day! ”

Watch the video here.

Trace at Artspace. Post colonial cluster fcuk.

29 August – 03 October 2009
TRACE: Displaced (Post-Colonial-Cluster-Fuck)
TRACE COLLECTIVE: PHIL BABOT, LEE HASSALL, EDDIE LADD, TONY SCHWENSEN, ANDRÉ STITT

Located in a domestic terraced house in Cardiff, TRACE has presented live works and resulting ‘trace’ installations by a wide range of major international practitioners for almost a decade. According to TRACE: ‘the seemingly left-over or discarded matter from performance activity is offered up for contemplation and reflection in relation to contemporary artists’ exploration and research. In bringing together these discrete elements one becomes aware of a certain unity of practice; a living archive centred on process, events and experiences — traces that embody that fragile quality where the object itself is imbued with the performance that created it.’ With this in mind, the collective also creates regular exhibitions of its archive-based documentations, residues and partial objects created through the process of performance art.

For TRACE: Displaced at Artspace, the TRACE Collective will build a suspended floor structure — a scaled replication of the floor area of TRACE in Cardiff. During each day of the initial, public live aspect of the project, the artists will engage in an ongoing dialogue with the installation, navigating its physicality and making interventions upon its structure. Collective activity will include the dismantling of a number of classic Australian-built Torana cars combined with accumulative documentary videos of live work created in and around Sydney during the TRACE residency at Artspace. References to locations and conditions in and around Old South Wales are displaced and relocated to New South Wales, with the intent of creating multi-layered investigations which reference departure and arrival though post-colonial-scouring-cluster-fuck.

More from Artspace

Melbourne Intermission 2009 presented by MIFF and Greyspace

Program 1: The Wardrobe Malfunction
An unanticipated exposure of bodily parts featuring ,The Primitive Calculators ,Gossip Pop, and Pig&Machine with DPWolf.

Bright, abrupt, appropriated and aggregated, a night where the virtual dead and the nearly dead do battle. Where popular culture is treated as it should. Where feedback invades the senses, and the noise of Japan coincides with the noise of Melbourne.
Wednesday, July 29, 9.30 pm ­ 11.30 pm Door/bar opens 8pm

Program 2: The Contradiction
Greasing the glass of lust and comprehension are Kathy Vogan (SPK) and guests, Botborg, Arf Arf, and Automaton.

A night of performance presenting the feedback improvisers Botborg, the explosive narratives of Cathy Vogan (SPK)and guests; Arf Arf performing for the first time in twelve years; and Automaton Vijay Thilimuthu, Nat8, Corey Sands and Keith Deverell.
Thursday, July 30, 9.30 pm ­ 12.00 midnight Door/bar opens 8pm

Tickets through MIFF Box office, MIFF online – melbournefilmfestival.com.au
Wednesday 29th ­ Thursday 30th July 2009 at the Ding Dong Lounge, 18 Market Lane, Melbourne

Email:tellmemore@greyspace.com.au
http://greyspace.com.au/index.php?/intermission2009/program/

Once More with Feeling – VCA performance & video art

Brings together a diverse group of nine Melbourne-based performance and video art practitioners. Artists include Timothy Kendall Edser, Veronica Kent, Sean Peoples and Alex Martinis Roe, with Bridie Lunney, Sarah Lynch, Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano, and David Simpkin.

The artists in Once More with Feeling explore diverse themes within their work using themselves as the core subject – employing their persona as a cipher to explore broader themes.

Until Saturday 23 May
VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery
40 Dodds St, Southbank, Melbourne

Check out http://bit.ly/ATeiN for more information.

Abject Leader at ACMI

Synaethesia at ACMI presents Abject Leader. Abject Leader is the ongoing collaboration of film artist Sally Golding and sound artist Joel Stern.

They champion the analogue, the handmade, the photo-chemical and the acoustic, delving into hallucinogenic-cinematic underworlds to produce sweetly shifting performance melodies for eyes and ears.

This live performance will be followed by a screening of films from the duo’s archives of inspiration.

Thu 7 May, 6.30pm FREE
Studio 1, ACMI, Federation Square

www.acmi.net.au/synaesthesia.aspx