A performance work co-directed by David Cross and Alison Currie in collaboration with performer Cazna Brass and costume designer Ellie Boekman. Commissioned by Dancehouse and Carriageworks for the Keir Choreographic Award 2020 supported by Australia Council for the Arts, Keir Foundation and Restless Dance Theatre.
Image credit Gregory Lorenzutti for Dancehouse
Delimit examines the relationship between menial, process-driven labour and dance. Playing with ideas of staging and set making, the work seeks to interrogate how the making of an art installation offers a frame in which to understand dance and its assorted modalities in different ways.
Image credit Gregory Lorenzutti for Dancehouse.
The collaboration between visual artist David Cross and choreographer Alison Currie has been developed through a long-term appreciation of each other's practice and a realisation that despite their work appearing very different, their conceptual interests are closely linked. Delimit slips between functional and abstract, exploring live action as an unstable liminal space between labour and performance.
Photo by Gregory Lorenzutti for Dancehouse
video of the work and other Keir Choreographic Award Semi finalists from the Dancehouse season can be found here https://vimeo.com/413052420/1558ad8afa
image credit Sam Roberts