‘Creatures’ by Alison Currie and The Human Arts Movement is an exploration of human movement and repetition. Oscillating and gradually morphing between movements, together the seven dancers shapeshift; signifying a flock, a single organism or diverse individuals. The work recognises humans as creatures.
For the inaugural Adelaide Dance Festival, ‘Creatures’ will be performed at Samstag Museum of Art in response to the exhibition A Conversation with Jheronimus by South Australian-based visual artist Aldo Iacobelli. As the dancers move among Iacobelli’s installation of site-specific installations, a cross-disciplinary dialogue emerges about what it means to be human.
5:30pm Wednesday 11th July
Supported by Independent Arts Foundation and Samstag Museum of Art
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‘Creatures’ is a dance performance directed by Alison Currie in collaboration with The Human Arts Movement.
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Performers:
Cazna Brass, Rita Bush, Cayleigh Davies, Jacinta Jeffries, Georgia Timperon, Peter Vayne and Greta Wyatt.
Petra Szabo and Kendal Winton were also involved in the creation of this work.
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'Creatures' was performed on the corner of Pirie St. and Galwer Pl. Adelaide in January 2018
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Supported by City of Adelaide, Helpmann Academy, Restless Dance Theatre and LWDance Hub.
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‘Creatures’ is an exploration of human movement and repetition, the body is used to create the visual and aural interest in the work. There are no sets, props or amplification of sound just the choreographed bodies viewed in contrast to the pedestrian traffic.
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‘Creatures’ explores humans as creatures, the dancers move individually, as a flock, or in a tight group resembling a singular celled organism dividing. The work refers directly to group movement in public space. At times the dancers become part of the crowd taking on pedestrian movement or are separated from it, through the synchronicity of their movement as a group or the complexity of the choreography.
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‘Creatures’ by Alison Currie in collaboration with The Human Arts Movement.
Performed on the corner of Pirie Steet and Gawler Place, Adelaide, January 2018
Performers:
Cazna Brass, Rita Bush, Cayleigh Davies, Jacinta Jeffries, Georgia Timperon, Peter Vayne and Greta Wyatt.
Petra Szabo and Kendal Winton were also involved in the creation of this work.
Supported by City of Adelaide, Helpmann Academy, Restless Dance Theatre and LWDance Hub
Video and edit by Sam Roberts
more information:
alisoncurrie.com/creatures/
facebook.com/TheHumanArts...
'Creatures' was presented by City of Adelaide for a series of free public performances.
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‘Creatures’ underwent a rehearsal period at Restless Dance Theatre in 2017 also supported by Helpmann Academy
Image credit Sam Roberts