Darebin Arts Speakeasy have announced the first three performances of their upcoming FRAME Festival.
Slip by Rebecca Jensen
- Presented by Darebin Arts Speakeasy
- 1 – 5 March, 7.30pm
- Wed – Fri 7.30pm | Sat 2pm & 7.30pm | Sun 5pm
- Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre, 189 High Street Northcote 3070
Foley is a sound-effect technique used in film to construct a sense of reality within a scene. Sounds on screen are recreated in post-production using unlikely objects and body movements, amplifying the image in a way that’s so convincing we can forget to doubt. Slip connects the illusion of Foley to the complexity of our present reality, where almost everything around us is processed, and we find ourselves entangled in acts of delay and deferral.
Originally created as a short piece for the Keir Choreographic Award in 2022, Slip has been developed into a new, full-length work. Dancer Rebecca Jensen (Deep Soulful Sweats) and award-winning musician Aviva Endean (Token Armies) perform together, de-coupling sound and image in a dance work that is both witty and mesmerising.
Find out more information here.
A Certain Mumble by Amelia Jean O’Leary
- Presented by Darebin Arts Speakeasy
- 15 – 19 March
- Wed – Fri 7.30pm | Sat 2pm & 7.30pm | Sun 5pm
- Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre, 189 High Street Northcote 3070
Amelia is a First Nations Gamilaroi dancer and choreographer. Janelle Tan is a Chinese Malaysian dance artist with a rich understanding of the diverse culture that surrounded her growing up. In A Certain Mumble, they step through the sticky terrain of conviction and confusion, voice and incomprehensibility, sisterhood and lineage, being watched and being understood.
In this intimate new dance work, these two young choreographers invite you into the murky realm between the certainty they hold in themselves, the perils of being misunderstood, and the subterranean rumblings that try to convince you you don’t belong here.
Find out more information here.
Body of Work + QWERTY by Atlanta Eke
- Presented by Darebin Arts Speakeasy
- 23 – 25 March, 7.30pm
- Darebin Arts Centre, 401 Bell Street Preston VIC 3072
In 2014, Atlanta Eke’s Body of Work stunned audiences with its technical mastery, offering up a vision of future in which time collapses, and the physical body and its digital simulations collide and consume one another. Created in collaboration with video artists RDYSTDY and composer Daniel Jenatsch, this ground-breaking work imagined an end to the distinction between human and machine, questioning who choreographs and who is choreographed.
In 2023, they return to make a sequel, of sorts: QWERTY – a new work exploring the footprint technologies have made on the human body, and our capacity to rewrite our choreographic coding. Experimenting with interior and exterior interfaces and notions of path dependency, QWERTY probes the capability of the dancing body to break free of its pre-installed design.
Presented together as a double bill, Body of Work and QWERTY offer two spellbinding commentaries on the relationship between the human body and technology, in an evening of stunning visuals and innovative possibilities.
Find out more information here.
