Category: Performance Space

  Performance Space and Liveworks Festival presents World Premiere, CARRION – Justin Shoulder, in Bay 20, Carriageworks, Wilson St, Redfern. 25 – 28 October, 2017. Performance Space and LIveworks Festival present, CARRION, in a new Performance Art piece created by Justin Shoulder. From the program notes: Justin Shoulder is an artist working in performance, sculpture, video and nightlife/community events production. His main body of work the “Fantastic Creatures” are invented alter-personas based on queered ancestral mythologies. These creatures are embodied through hand crafted costumes and prostheses and animated by their own gestural languages. Shoulder uses his body and craft to…

  Performance Space presents, TANGI WAI – The Cry of Water, by Victoria Hunt, Bay 20, Carriageworks 28 Oct – 1 Nov 2015. TANGI WAI – The Cry of Water, is the latest work by Victoria Hunt. COPPER PROMISES, a work presented in 2012, was a great landmark in my theatre going experiences. I saw its final iteration after a ten year gestation development. This new work in its first incarnation, too, has great power and impresses deeply. Ms Hunt is of part-Maori inheritance and she is investigating the deep mythological origins of the creation stories of her worlds, through…

Performance Space presents FALLING WOMAN, Created by Alice Osborne and Halcyon Macleod, at Carriageworks, Track 8. 26 – 29 November, 2014. FALLING WOMAN is a new Australian play with an idea initiated, devised and performed by Alice Osborne, written and directed by Halcyon Macleod. The text is a voiceover of, for most of the time, a highly poetic odyssey – recently, Ms Macleod’s work at Campbelltown Arts Centre: MANTLE, also featured this kind of radio-play conceit (think Radio National’s, Poetica) – however, in this case it features a disembodied voice with, also, live microphone interpolations from The Woman (Alice Osborne),…

Performance Space present, THE FOX AND THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS, co-written by Alana Valentine and Rhonda Dixon-Grovenor, in Bay 20, at Carriageworks, Redfern. 13-22 November. THE FOX AND THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS is a new Australian work, co-written by Rhonda Dixon-Grovenor and Alana Valentine. Charles “Chicka” Dixon was a leading Indigenous activist. Born in 1928, his role as activist began to find focus during the preparation of the 1967 Australia Referendum, that amended the constitution to include Aboriginal people in the census and allow the Commonwealth to create laws for them; and, among much else, in 1970, he organised the Aboriginal Legal…

Photography by Jeff Busby Performance Space and Mobile States present Chunky Move’s KEEP EVERYTHING at Carriageworks, Redfern, Sydney. 13 August – 16 August. Chunky Move is a Melbourne based contemporary dance company lead by Anouk van Dijk. KEEP EVERYTHING was part of the 2013 Next Move commission, and is a new work by Director and Choreographer, Antony Hamilton. The program notes tells us that: this work has been developed intuitively with little editing and the result is a stream of consciousness style of dance which shows that, sometimes, it’s important to keep everything. Or, arguably, not. Three dancers, Benjamin Hancock,…

Presented by Performance Space THE RIVER EATS – Justin Shoulder and Collaborators, at Carriageworks, Redfern. THE RIVER EATS is a performance art piece created by Justin Shoulder and Collaborators. This work is a further development on a project explored and presented at Melbourne’s 2012 Next Wave Festival. Here, at Carriageworks it is part of their month-long Show Off Season. Mr Shoulder according to the program notes is: a multi-disciplinary artist. His interest lies in the creation and dissemination of urban mythologies. These stories are realized physically in the construction of full-body highly sculptural ‘Fantastic Creature’ avatars he inhabits in live…