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Residency Program
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Blueprint aims to provide emerging artists with time and space to develop their practice and
artistic inquiry. Blueprint is an opportunity for emerging performance-makers to…
- Explore the beginnings of a New Work in reference to the unique context of FraserStudios
- Develop a new way of working in relation to the site
- Investigate the place of the space as a site-specific response
In 2011 we are very excited to announce that the program will be facilitated by award-winning independent dance artist Julie-Anne Long.
About our guest facilitating Artist, Julie-Anne Long:
Julie-Anne Long is an award-winning independent dance artist based in Sydney. Since graduating from the Victorian College of Arts in the early 1980s she has performed and choreographed on a wide range of projects with companies such as Human Veins, One Extra, Theatre of Image, Flying Fruit Fly Circus, Bell Shakespeare Company, Open City and Dance Works. From 1991–1996 Julie-Anne was Associate Artistic Director of One Extra Company with Artistic Director Graeme Watson.
She has worked in a variety of dance contexts as mentor, dramaturg, curator and producer including Acting Director of dance research organisation Critical Path (2006/2007) and Dance Curator at Campbelltown Arts Centre (2009/2010). Julie-Anne has a Master of Arts (Honors) from the School of Contemporary Arts, University of Western Sydney, Nepean and in 2010 she completed a PhD at the School of English, Media and Performing Arts, University of New South Wales.
Julie-Anne was awarded an Australia Council Dance Fellowship in 2007 which encompassed research, development and the realisation of a body of work entitled The Invisibility Project.
What Queen Street Studio provides:
- Up to 20 hours of free rehearsal space (3 August – 30 September 2011)
- The opportunity to show the work in development on FRIDAY 30 September 2011
- Mentoring support and professional development workshops and check-ins thoughout the process with mentoring artist and facilitator Julie-Anne Long
2011 Blueprint #2 Residents »
Title: “Sausages”
Artist: Ivan Cheng
Synopsis: The development of a new solo work dealing with Sausages. Variable proportions and ingredients forced into a natural or artificial casing which is then cooked or cured, the modes of preparation are precise and exacting. The obvious but vague parallels to humans and their society, ideas of plasticity, manufacturing, consistency, survival, and socio-culturo-economic division. The work will explore different structural compositions and possibilities of movement.
Title: “Being for the time Being”
Artist: Leeke Griffin
Synopsis: Being for the time Being is the exploration of how space/domain has the potential to shift into an entirely alternate habitat through the impact of decisions and perceptions made regarding the space.The FraserStudios space will be a driving force. Its current use as a temporary space for artists highlights the notion of a habitat ready and waiting to be put to use ultimately at the mercy of the variables that transform it. Through time, a transient habitat can be transformed again and again dependent on the circumstances and variables.
Title: Untitled
Artists: Venettia Miller & Ryuichi Fujimura
Synopsis: The development of a dance theatre work that explores the relationship between the architecture of FraserStudios and the internall spaces of the performer, examining physical and physcological constructs. It will consider the notion that experiences of place resonate through the performative body. It will look at how the body and architecture contain our memories and experiences, and that as we are shaped or transformed by a space, the space is transformed by us.
Title: Untitled
Artist: Stephen Nicolazzo
Synopsis: To explore the relationship between choreography and narrative based on the story telling of popular music. To determine how character and story can be communicated in a structured physical form propelled by the lyics of these artists The precision and structure of the simplest of movements and gestures aid the storytelling process in a way that text can not achieve alone. In terms of individual practise, it is his hoped that the residency will allow for the exploration of a new theatrical language, one that shares elements of dramatic directorial communication and choreographic composition.
2010 Blueprint #1 Residents »
Title: “Ebony and …”
Artists: Phil Spencer, Scarlet McGlynn, Gemma O’Nions, Brooke Robinson and Glenn Judd
Synopsis: Through our month-long residency we started to play around with a few ideas that came out of our response to the studio space, as well as additional secondary source material that was brought into the room during rehearsals. We have experimented with how movement, text, photography and sculpture can interplay to create a piece of live performance in this specific site. A fragment of what may go on to be developed into a durational multi-site specific work in the years to come.
Title: “Have you ever wanted?”
Artists: Jacqui O’Reilly and Huw Lewis
Synopsis: The project will be an opportunity for artists Huw Lewis and Jacqui O’Reilly to explore an interdisciplinary enquiry, expanding the limits of particular fields of practice. A ten-minute performance will be devised from this exploration. Two sensibilities, male and female, and the traction of psychosocial engagement will inspire themes implicit in the works. These themes will include desire, rejection, ego and apathy. A range of ‘real time’ preparatory explorations, based on exercises learnt from Rosie Dennis at her Permaculture Workshop in 2009, will form part of the creative process of the project. Designing sound parameters will also be involved to treat vocals used in the performance. The use of masks and costumes will be explored in the rehearsal space.
Title: “Discarnate”
Artists: Amy Wilson and Megan Garratt-Jones
Synopsis: ‘Discarnate’ explores the latent sounds of the historic FraserStudios building through the metaphor of ghosts. We were to adopt the personas of 'mediums' that would listen, channel and record sounds manifest by our presence and actions in the site. The passivity of listening soon gave way to a desire for action, to create rhythm, melody, and even suggest at narrative. In a cyclical structure, action is recorded via its sound trace, which is then overwritten by present action. Initial action exists as its trace, but contends with subsequent traces that accumulate in a multitudinous history speaking all at once of the past from the point of the present. The title ‘Discarnate’ is contradictory, as the piece is generated through the bodily action of performers, yet fitting in referring to the two-fold definition of performance as both present action and it’s subsequent existence through its traces. The aesthetics of the work were influenced by the industrial history of the building and the horror genre.
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