Past performances
Giving & Receiving | Leading & Following
A 4 hour contact improvisation workshop with David Lakein (Berlin/Chicago)
12pm – 4pm, 8th May, 2011
$65 waged, $55 unwaged, to book email: Lakein.Workshops@gmail.com 0425709914
This workshop is open to people of all levels and contact improvisation experience who are interested in exploring how giving and receiving, leading and following can help us to increase our range of movement and spectrum of creativity. If you know anyone who has been thinking of delving into contact improvisation, this is the workshop to bring them along to. If you are an old hand, this workshop offers an opportunity to break with long entrenched habits.
As the “Giver” – What are the differences in my approach to and feeling of guiding, leading, and directing my partner?
As the “Receiver” – How can I give myself completely to the whims of my partner or actively resist and work against her impulses?
How can I shift back and forth between the two in different ways?
We’ll get into the different landscapes of “harmonious struggle” and discover new vistas of “conflictual collaboration”, scratching the edge of our perceived physical and mental boundaries.
David Lakein has been dancing contact for over twenty years on four continents. Known for inquisitive nature and experimental methods, he is a well-respected teacher dedicated to his students and a rigorous (un) learning process. Central to how he conveys the joys and possibilities of the contact dance form is his extensive multi-layered and genre-crossing improvisation practice, embodying a range research and performance approaches. An interdisciplinary artist, performer, organiser and writer, David studied Philosophy & Literature and Acting & Directing in college, Improvisation, Choreography, Release-Technique and Contact in Berlin and at The School for New Dance Development, Amsterdam, and recently received his MFA from The Art Institute of Chicago. He collaborates extensively with other artists, and performs-researches-teaches around the world.
Such and Such - Saturday and Sunday 9th and 10th April 2011
Debra Batton and Catherine Magill are Such and Such an exciting new partnership eager to bring improvised performance out of the studio and into the wider public arena.
With an interest in engaging performance backed by refined skills
Such and Such perform in the moment - never to be repeated performances of mature, eloquent, bawdy, spirited, emotional and thoughtful themes. Sometimes they dance, sometimes they speak or even sing…
Guest improvisers include Grace Walpole, Stefanie Robinson, Ann-maree Ellis and Noelle Rees Hatton. Improvised Performance - The present unfurls until the end is found.
Saturday 9th April 7pm (1 hour approx)
Sunday 10th April 5pm (1 hour approx)
Cost $10 per person children free. Limited seating, please email your intention to attend to debrabatton@optusnet.com.au
(photo by Heidrun Lohr)
Zac's performance at the Studio!
Swap, don't shop Pakistan fundraiser by Lucy and Gina (Fundraised $376.20)
Grace Walpole's new show: Mathematicals Models of the Sublime
Trapped inside every circle is a small instance of infinity.
Studio 202 is proud to have supported Walpole & Sister in the development of their new performance work Mathematical Models of the Sublime.
Mathematical Models of the Sublime wanders through the wonder of infinity: the magic of the number pi, the majesty of the universe and our logarithmic perceptions of our bodies. With a piece of string and some diagrams, Grace Walpole’s solo performance reveals the beauty in the everyday, uncovering the astonishing in the ordinary.
This production follows on from Walpole & Sister's successful 2009 season of Short Dissertations on Sleep, and continues their style of lyrical performance-essay exploring the edges of art, science and philosophy using dance and narrative.
Walpole & Sister are Grace Walpole and Helen Walpole, two sisters with a passion for finding the art in science. Grace is a founding member of The Little Con and regularly performs as a dancer in Melbourne and around Australia. Helen is a museum curator, writer and designer.
"Melbourne's magical medical doctor of dance has created an intriguing piece of theatre ... Walpole leads us through a brilliantly factual but crisply metaphoric process, drawing wonderfully clever parallels between brain waves and architecture, between giraffes and dance ... Grace and her sister Helen are clearly architects; builders of theatre using science to forge intellectually idiosyncratic art. It's challenging, even daring stuff." Review of Short Dissertations on Sleep in Dance Informa Magazine Sept 2009
Limina: A dance solo and video installation
Limina from Studio 202 on Vimeo.
At the point where one thing becomes another, for a moment it is both. Limina describes these threshold moments, merging psychological and physical spaces, memory and present, dream and reality, to create an environment where linearity is rearranged and we exist in multiple places at once.
Choreography and performance – Michaela Pegum
Video – Cherie Green
Sound – Julia Mant
Light - Jenny Hector and Tegan Larin
Documentary video – Mick Stylianou
Michaela Pegum - Biography
Michaela creates within the mediums of dance, video and graphics. She works with improvisation and imagery to create evocative, semi - abstract live landcapes.
Over the past 10 years she has created a number of solo dance works and dance videos/installations. In 2009 with the support of a CultureLab grant from the City of Melbourne and Dancehouse, she created Limina - a dance solo and video installation - for the Dance Massive festival. This was re-worked and performed later in the year at Studio 202. In 2009 she was also in residence at Victoria University through the Solo Performance Residency Program and travelled to Europe on an artistic reasearch trip. She is currently developing a new solo work.
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