Dianne Reid, Mind The Gap Artist in Residence - FREE WORKSHOP & SHOWING

Dianne Reid, Mind The Gap Artist in Residence - FREE WORKSHOP & SHOWING

In partnership with Dance Hub SA through our Mind The Gap Residency Program. Dianne will be spending a week with Tasdance to work on a new project Yesterday’s Skeleton - a self portrait.

Dianne will be running a FREE workshop on Improvisation and Screendance at Tasdance on Friday 25th of October 4pm - 6pm, all welcome!

Following the workshop, Dianne will share her weeks work at Tasdance 6:30pm - 7:30pm. Join us for a wine, some great dance and fantastic dialogue.

Check out more of Dianne’s work here:

Showreel: https://vimeo.com/286308178

Screendance outcomes: https://vimeo.com/121309934 & https://vimeo.com/259447829

Here is a little bit about the Improvisation and Screendance workshop.

This workshop introduces “screendance” as a way to re-imagine and hold onto our dancing. It takes the dance to new locations, enables new perspectives on the body, while simultaneously becoming kinesthetic information entering the body and the imaginative vocabulary. Drawing on visual, tactile and text-based scores to develop improvisational scores and choreographic materials, participants will also experiment with the notion of 'active witnessing'—of moving through the action as audience/viewer, in duet with the dancer. In this way participants are introduced to the notion of the duet of screendance: the relationship of the moving camera and the moving body, looking at the interaction between cinematographer and dancer and how this creates new choreography in a screen context.

 (Recent deliveries: The Moves festival, Moonah Arts Centre, Hobart, 2018; Dancing between two worlds project, Deakin University & Wyndham Shire, Melbourne, 2018; A Woman’s Place, Mornington Peninsula, 2018; Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company Summer School, Utah, 2014)

Here is a little bit about what Dianne will focusing on while at Tasdance

“Yesterday’s Skeleton—a self portrait
—Here lies a burden lifted, under a blanket of fables”

My project will focus on developing recorded materials for a documentary/bio pic—a physical etching on dance as a life practice and life as a dance/screen practice. Through an interrogation of my current practice and a historical unpacking of my dance trajectory, I hope to bring issues of body, sustain/ability, independence and community cooperation to the surface.

Over the week I will gather materials of self-portraiture—filming of scored physical practice, audio recordings of interviews (questions gathered from previous collaborators and/or local community), traversal of the local landscape as camera/viewer, interactions between live body and projected imagery. These materials could be edited into a screendance or “bio pic”, or inform a future live work, or develop into a community project.

I would invite the local community to engage with the process via participation in a screendance & improvisation workshop. This workshop introduces “screendance” as a way to re-imagine and hold onto our dancing. It takes the dance to new locations, enables new perspectives on the body, while simultaneously becoming kinesthetic information entering the body and the imaginative vocabulary. Drawing on visual, tactile and text-based scores to develop improvisational scores and choreographic materials, participants will also experiment with the notion of ‘active witnessing’—of moving through the action as audience/viewer, in duet with the dancer. In this way, participants are introduced to the notion of the duet of screendance: the relationship of the moving camera (viewer) and the moving body.

For the end of the week outcome, I would present an installation of recorded and live materials—a play between performance and projection as a live edit, and opportunities for audience interaction and reflections in the form of live interviews and written exchanges.