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De-limit
De-limit
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Keir Choregraphic AwardsPublisher
Dancehouse, CarriageworksLocation
Dancehouse and CarriageworksPlace of publication
Melbourne, VIc.Start date
2020-03-04End date
2020-03-14Language
engRecognition, awards & prizes
Finalist in Keir Choreographic AwardsResearch statement
De-limit was a co-authored dance work with Adelaide choreographer Alison Currie. Developed for the 2020 Keir Choreographic Award at Dancehouse, Melbourne and Carriageworks, Sydney, the work sought to investigate how specific dance and visual art methodologies could be drawn together or elided to examine ideas of limits and constraints. Consisting of a twenty minute performance work for solo performer, De-limit sought to employ specific conceptual strategies of repetition and labour to question the nature of what dance could be and specifically how ideas of staging, theatricality and dexterous movement could be challenged by the staging of actions more closely associated with mundane set making. The research specifically sought to interogate the value of visual arts modalities (conceptual, temporal, anti-theatrical) in seeking to shift key orthodoxies in dance making. This research was undertaken within the specific frame of a competitive dance competition which formed another fulcrum in the work: namely the criteria around which value is ascribed in the evaluation of contemporary dance. De-Limit sought to investigate and challenge the notion of dance as entertainment and to instead preface the idea of dance as a vehicle to address ideas of the meaning of bodies moving inn space through its relationship to everyday life. De-Limit was selected for inclusion in the semi-finals at Dancehouse (eight works) by four leading international judges. It was subsequently selected as one of four works to compete in the finals at Carriageworks in Sydney.Publication classification
J2 Minor original creative workEditor/Contributor(s)
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