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SUMMARY:Company Clare Dyson: The Voyeur
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Event Name: Company Clare Dyson: The Voyeur=0D=0AEvent Url: http://www.artshound.com/event/detail/30381=0D=0AEvent Date Begin: 2010-01-21=0D=0AEvent Date End: 2010-01-23=0D=0A=0D=0ADiverseWorks Presents Company Clare Dyson: The Voyeur Dance. Intimacy. Privacy. Vulnerability. Revelation. DiverseWorks is proud to present the U.S. premiere of Voyeur, the latest performance and installation by Company Clare Dyson that explores notions of intimacy, desire, and the act of revealing and what it means to watch another person.=0D=0A=In this exciting new work, audiences are not passive viewers, they can choose where and how they view the performance. When they enter the theater, the audience must choose a vantage point to experience the work: a seat on the side or front of the stage; a chair with headphones or binoculars or standing position without either. No one viewing point is the same:, every space reveals different aspects of the performers, their thoughts and the work as a whole. Each viewer will determine how they move in the space and what is most important to them when watching and experiencing the Voyeur. This work connects audience viscerally to the performers and the intimate act of revealing.=0D=0A=Performances are Thursday-Saturday, January 21-23, 2010 at 8pm in the DiverseWorks Theater. TWO SHOWS ADDED: Friday and Saturday at 10pm.=0D=0A=Voyeur is a new contemporary dance work that challenges how audiences watch performance and questions what is part of the work is important for each individual audience experience. What is central to this work are the expectations of the audience prior to coming into the space: they expect to see a contemporary dance work, but what does that mean? It usually means they will be watching the dances on stage while they are seated in a fixed position in the auditorium. These expectations are heightened further when going to a theatre — the stage is another world, the idea of choice is not entertained, the proscenium is an impenetrable wall between audience and performer.=0D=0A=Voyeur inverts these expectations with the aim of creating an experiential event for the audience: it asks the audience on stage with the performers, gives them agency throughout the work, allows them to vary their proximity to the dancers and creates limited spaces that unsettles and energize.=0D=0A=ABOUT COMPANY CLARE DYSON:=0D=0A=Clare Dyson / Artistic Director=0D=0A=Choreographer Clare Dyson has been working with brother and lighting designer Mark Dyson for over 10 years. They develop innovative performance works that cross art form boundaries, art theory and focus on the experience of audience. Dyson works independently and has been commissioned by a range of companies and organizations to create innovative independent performance works throughout Australia.=0D=0A=For Clare Dyson, art is about creating meaning: art as situated in the world, not removed or separate. Her work occupies spaces other than theatres and involves the audience or incorporate installation. In 2006, Dyson received a fellowship to attend the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in the USA. In 2007, she was artist-in-residence at Tanzfabrik in Berlin where she created the new work Being There. In 2008, she had a Cité Internationale des Arts Residency in Paris as and will tour her new work, Voyeur, in the USA in 2009. Company information: http://www.dysonindustries.com.au.=0D=0A=Mark Dyson / Lighting and Set Design –=0D=0A=Mark has been collaborating with Clare Dyson over the last six years and they are engaged in a process of creation that aims to dissolve the barriers between movement and light in performance. Mark has most recently worked in Australia (on Clare's recent works: Constructed Realities, Churchill's Black Dog, Absence(s), Being There) and is now in Europe working on independent theatre, dance and music productions. His work in Europe is mainly on larger scale works that are influencing his work on smaller productions such as his work in Australia with Clare. Mark was the resident lighting designer at the Choreographic Centre since its inception and has collaborated with numerous choreographers during that time. Working as the in house lighting designer for the Centre he was engaged with a new choreographer every six to eight weeks as part of the choreographic research program, and working with each new choreographer meant something different. He was primarily assisting with fellowships in designing and managing their final performances via lighting and production. His association with a number of the choreographic Fellows has also continued after their initial fellowship at the Centre. He is currently completing his PhD in Art Theory.=0D=0A=Simon Ellis/ Performer=0D=0A=Simon Ellis is a choreographer, performance maker, researcher and performer primarily interested in developing dance/performance environments and outcomes that provoke and contextualise explorations of human psychology. He has a practice-led PhD investigating improvisation, remembering, documentation and liveness.=0D=0A=Simon's choreographies include Full (nominated for two Victorian Green Room Awards – Best Solo Performance, Innovative Use of Space), and most recently Inert (finalist in the Australian Dance Awards 'outstanding achievement in independent dance' category; and two Dance Magazine Critic's Awards for 'Best new work' and 'Most outstanding choreography'). In 2006 he completed the development of Four Acts of Violence Leading Up to Now with David Corbet and Paea Leach (presented in Melbourne & Perth in September 2006, and in the UK in 2007 (Derby & Northampton).=0D=0A=As a performer Simon most recently danced in his own Gertrud in London at The Place, Natalie Cursio's Album Project, and also slept for 8 hours as part of Deborah Pollard's Shapes of Sleep at Inbetween Time Festival (Bristol). He has also performed for, amongst others, Bagryana Popov, Jude Walton, Douglas Wright, Don Asker, Michael Parmenter, Tony Yap, Rivergrass Dance Theatre (Malaysia), Shannon Bott, Gerard van Dyck, and Natalie Cursio.=0D=0A=In 2007 Simon directed and performed the initial development of Crevice, a multi-screen video & performance environment. The dance/video installation Still/Live (developed with David Corbet and based on the online dad-project) was presented as part of ReelDance 07 in Sydney, and again in Northampton (Fishmarket) and Derby (Derby Dance). Simon's short film, then/now, was selected to premiere at Electrofringe 07, and has since been presented in Manchester (moves08), New York, Durham (American Dance Festival), Budapest and Baia Mare.=0D=0A=In 2008 he was commissioned to develop Gertrud for The Place Prize 2008, in which he was selected as one of five finalists. Later in the year he will create a new screen project, Anamnesis, as well as work with Helen Herbertson and Bagryana Popov on the development of two new solo performances. His screendance collaboration with Tim Halliday – Tuesday –premiered in the UK in March 2009.=0D=0A=ABOUT DIVERSEWORKS ARTSPACE =0D=0A=Known for its groundbreaking artistic and education programs, DiverseWorks is one of the premiere contemporary arts centers in the United States. DiverseWorks has been a hub for the presentation of daring and innovative work, a commissioner of major artistic projects in all disciplines, and an advocate for artists worldwide. Founded by artists for artists, DiverseWorks continues its commitment to bold artistic exploration, creative risk-taking, and building audiences for contemporary art.=0D=0A=0D=0AStart time:Thursday-Saturday, =0D=0A=January 21-23, 2010=0D=0A=at 8pm=0D=0A=TWO SHOWS ADDED: Friday and Saturday at 10pm.
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