CONCRETE IMPERMANENCE | ALISON CURRIE
DANCE MASSIVE
17 March 2019 - 18 March 2019
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From environmental disaster to personal trauma, Concrete Impermanence reveals the fragility of existence through a choreography of people and paper sculptures. Through these relationships and environments, this work draws on the universal experience of grief and loss, revealing the inextricable connection between individual and collective experience. An ever-shifting series of states, landscapes and urban environments uncover the fragility of both the natural world and of existence itself. Concrete Impermanence is created with both deaf and hearing audiences in mind.
Choreographer: Alison Currie (in collaboration with the cast and Lewis Rankin, Jessie Oshodi, Carlie Angel, Amrita Hepi)
Performers: Alison Currie, Harrison Ritchie Jones, Stephen Sheehan
Sound Design: Alisdair Macindoe
Lighting Design: Matthew Adey and Beizj Studio
Audio Visual: Jason Lam (Kaboom Studio)
Creative Assistant: Carlie Angel
Creative Producer: Jason Cross
Costume Design: Anny Duff (Goods Studios), shoes by All Birds
Objects Design: Stephanie Forsythe, Todd MacAllen (molo)
Set Consultant: Stephen Hayter
Design Consultant: Morag Cook
Access Consultant: Lara Torr, Gaelle Mellis
Technical Sound Support: Sascha Budimski
Producer: Insite Arts
WHERE: Dancehouse, Upstairs Studio
DATES: Sun 17 to Mon 18 March
TIMES: 6:00pm
DURATION: 60mins
TICKETS: $28 F | $22 C | $15 DH Member/City of Yarra Residents
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Alison Currie has a Masters in Choreography and Performance (2015) and a Bachelor in Dance Performance (2003). For the past 10 years the primary focus of Currie's practice has been the connection between inanimate forms and performers. Her works engage audiences, performers and objects or sculptural forms in various ways in theatres, galleries, and site specific live performance and video. Alison has been working as a choreographer since 2004. Her first major work 42a was the inaugural recipient of Arts SA triennial project grant in 2007, premiered in Adelaide in 2008 and toured to three states of Australia in 2010. In addition to premiering and touring Concrete Impermanence, in 2018, Currie also presented Creatures at the Samstag Museum as part of Adelaide Dance Festival and created a new work Close Company with Raw Moves in Singapore.
Concrete Impermanence has been supported by: Arts South Australia, Australia Council for the Arts, LWDance Hub, Restless Dance Theatre, All Birds, Insite Arts, Adelaide Festival Centre and The Substation.
Design for Concrete Impermanence has been supported by molo.
Dance Massive 2019 is supported by Creative Victoria and the Australian Government through the Ministry of the Arts and Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body. Dance Massive exists as the simultaneous programming of contemporary dance works and associated public and industry events by three Melbourne arts organisations - Arts House, Dancehouse and Malthouse Theatre in association with long-term associate partner Ausdance Victoria and new associate partners Abbotsford Convent and The SUBSTATION. The Dancehouse Dance Massive program is funded by the City of Yarra.
Image: Sam Roberts
