LESS
Australian Dance Party
‘LESS’ is an illuminated outdoor dance and music performance on the evocative architectural public artwork, Less Pavilion, Dairy Road, Fyshwick.
Directed by Alison Plevey in collaboration with dancers Ryan Stone, Ashlee Bye, Levente Szabo, Jake Silvestro, Patricia Hayes-Cavanagh and Gabriel Sinclair.
Sound design by Alex Voorhoeve with live instrumentation by Liam Budge (vocals) and John Mackey (sax).
Lighting Design by Ove McLeod.
Costume Design by Aislinn King.
Presented as part of the Enlighten Festival and The BOLD Festival 2022.
Image: Lorna Sim Photography
Image: Lorna Sim Photography
Lake March
Australian Dance Party
‘Lake March’ is a spontaneous dance and music performance unfolding along the pathways of Lakes Burley Griffin, Ginninderra and Tuggeranong. Families, friends and exercise buffs of all ages flocking to the Lake to fill up on nature, gossip and sweat will unsuspectingly be treated to an artistic happening, a shared moment of surprise, reflection and joy.
Ignited by the turbulent context we are experiencing globally in 2020, the artists draw on notions of absence – of human-to-human touch, of a just and stable world, of collective joy – experiences for which we yearn.
Choreographed by Alison Plevey and Alana Stenning
Presented by the Where You Are Festival 2020
Canberra Critics Circle Award
Australian Dance Party
2020
Strut Your Stuff
A dance film as part of the Move to Zero 2.0 initiative to bring the ACT government's carbon reduction target to the public.
Autumn Lantern
Australian Dance Party
Dancers and musicians weave movement, music and light symbolic of lanterns lighting the way through festival, or city spaces. Responsive to place and the activity present there, 'Autumn Lantern' playfully reveals the character of the natural and architectural spaces and the choreographies already present within them. Follow them as they thread a mystical, waltz and hum through your event from twilight into the darkness.
Concept/Direction Alison Plevey
Presented at Enlighten Festival 2020
Image: Martin Ollman
SO - in Search of Sophia
Mirramu Dance Company
SO – in Search of Sophia (in Greek mythology the goddess of Wisdom and Intelligence) was performed in celebration of the 2019 Summer Solstice in the amphitheatre at Mirramu Creative Arts Centre, Lake George.
Ashlee also performed with Elizabeth for the VR film project, Crone, directed by Kenneth Spiteri
Choreographed by Elizabeth Cameron Dalman & Dancers
Image: Barbie Robinson
Playing Up
Canberra Dance Theatre
City Flash Mob for Canberra Dance Theatre and City Renewal Authority, 2019
Choreographed by Jake Kuzma with Ashlee Bye
Image: Canberra Dance Theatre
Image: Dunedin Wears the Pants
Piccolo Cor
Anna and Miriam Noonan
Piccolo Cor combines dance and theatre to explore human vulnerability and worth. It celebrates happiness, connection and imperfection in the quest for personal and communal identity
Image Rachel Roberts
WeTubeLIVE
Ben Speth
WeTubeLIVE celebrates the bizarre, the narcissistic and the occasionally talented, curating 100 live performances appropriated from YouTube. Each performer is presented in a carefully demarcated square—neat and contained with their personal effects and own sound system. The taped square works to create a barrier not unlike a computer screen; viewers walk amid performers without fear of interfering, happy to gaze and gawk as though invisible.
Concept & Direction Ben Speth
Project Manager Bec Reid
Dance Facilitator Adam Wheeler
Presented at the NGV Great Hall in Dance Massive 2013
The Faders
Liquid Skin
Do you want to be famous? Be careful what you wish for. In The Faders, choreographer Rochelle Carmichael explores the cult of celebrity and the perils of valuing one’s self worth in the currency of public adoration.”
Choreography Rochelle Carmichael
Presented at the Substation, Melbourne Fringe Festival, 2012
Image Justin Batchelor