To launch Dance (Lens) Mini, join four screendance artists in Moving Portraits, a conversation and screening about dance, film, and portraiture, and the history and legacy of Australian women in dance.
Throughout the discussion, Moving Portraits will include screenings of Doing the Work (2024) by Siobhan Murphy, terra (installation 2024) a work by Cobie Orger with Alice Cummins. From 7pm, ON VIEW: ICONS by Sue Healey.
terra’s next iteration is a 3-channel video installation inspired by the live work by Cobie Orger and Alice. This immersive screen work weaves sound, sculpture and dance into a choreographed sequence of topographic and physical landscapes that express our relationship with, and concern for, country.
Sylvia Staehli Theatre 6pm
Free Admission
Screen Concept & Direction: Cobie Orger
Original Concept & Performance: Alice Cummins
Director of Photography: Cobie Orger
Edit: Cobie Orger with Alice Cummins
Sound: Tilman Robinson
Lighting Technician: Peter Young
Production Support: Paea Leach
*Shot on location at Holmes à Court Gallery @ no.10, Gooyaman | West Perth
Original live work: terra - a 50min dance work informed by the knowledge of current and impending ecological loss. Erupting from an imagination placed under pressure for decades, terra invites us to feel what is happening to the earth, whilst creating something of awe and beauty.
Program Notes
image: Cobie Orger