Encoded Dances (excerpts & artefact collage)

Each practice session makes marks that layer and support the next. We don’t erase what’s come before, but retrace our steps and share our experiences with each other. We practice in different environments: street, sidewalk, garden, creek, hill, park, alley, theatre, foyer, hallway, tutorial room, dance studio, lounge room, balcony, porch. These varied practices in varied environments both disrupt and dissolve habitual codes and lay foundations for new pathways to be forged. During this dance, you are invited to choose a seat from three different seating banks and change your facing as the dance progresses. 

This is a collage of artefacts from solo and shared practices with different artists in a variety of different environments. The soundscape is a collage of sounds, dialogues, and descriptions of practice collected over the last year and a half. You might hear intimate dialogue about dance, clips of collaborative negotiation, discussion of ideas and directions improvised directions from shared workshops with Rosalind Crisp and Deborah Hay, or thick descriptions from both the inside and the outside of dancing.

Susannah Keebler, dancer and choreographer 

Soundscape constructed by Myfanwy Hunter and Susannah Keebler

Soundscape mastered by Padma Newsome

Lighting by: Siobhain Geaney

featured in the soundscape and collage are documents from shared performance practice with:

Myfanwy Hunter, violist

Chelsea Byrne, dancer    

Bronwen Kamasz, dancer

Irene Metter, documentarian

as well as solo performance by Susannah Keebler