DARK NIGHT | JILL ORR
DANCE MASSIVE 2019
21 March 2019 - 23 March 2019
Presented in partnership with Abbotsford Convent
Director and Performer: Jill Orr
Sound Design: Steve Bell
Costume Design: Alison Kelly
Set Design: Jill Orr, Nick Aguis, Aaron Poupard (ARM architecture)
Set Construction: George Douralis (Gamma Doura Australia)
WHERE: Abbotsford Convent, Magdalen Laundries (1 Saint Heliers St. Abbotsford)
DATES: Thurs 21 to Sat 23 March
TIMES: 9:00pm
DURATION: 40mins
PRICE: All tickets $20
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Jill Orr's work centres on issues of the psycho-social and the environment — drawing on land and identity as they are shaped in, on and with the environment, be it rural or urban locales. Orr grapples with the balance and discord that exists at the heart of relations between the human spirit, art and nature. Orr was represented in the inaugural Venice International Performance Art Week in 2012 where she presented The Promised Land. Jill is a recent recipient of the Australia Council Fellowship that enabled the production of Antipodean Epic, presented for the Mildura Palimpsest Biennale #10, followed by The Antipodean Epic - The Quarry for the Lorne Sculpture Bienniale; the Belo Horizonte Biennale, Brazil; and Inextremis, Arthouse, Melbourne. In 2018, her performance installation Detritus Springs was commissioned by the Biennale of Australian Art, followed by Listening, commissioned and shown at the Unconformity Festival Queenstown Tasmania.
In its earliest incarnation, Dark Night was titled, The Promised Land and was presented for the inaugural Performance Art Week, in 2012 with photographs and sculptural work shown with the Jenny Port Gallery in 2012. The work became Dark Night was presented for the opening of the Lorne Sculpture Biennale in 2018. It has further evolved to be presented in Dance Massive 2019.
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
