Shelley lasica, vianne, premiering December 2008
3 Dec 2008
SHELLEY LASICA
VIANNE
PREMIERING DECEMBER 2008
Internationally acclaimed Melbourne-based choreographer SHELLEY LASICA presents her world premiere of VIANNE in Melbourne this December. VIANNE is a complex and engaging dance performance that explores the spatial and imaginary world of a central character. This physically rigorous work boldly interweaves multiple art forms and the rich collaborative involvement of 10 people.
Over the past 25 years, LASICA has choreographed, directed and performed dance work in Australia and abroad. She has shown work in a range of non-performance spaces of different dimensions and usages throughout Australia and in cities including London, Manchester, Paris, Vienna and New York.
LASICA has always demonstrated a rigorous commitment to the choreographic development of her work. Compositions are interrogated and the informed critical responses of others become part of the working process. For the same reasons LASICA’s work is grounded in a discourse that seeks to engage dance with other visual and temporal art forms. To this end she has worked with Artists Tony Clark, Callum Morton, Kathy Temin and Gail Hastings; Architect Roger Wood; Composer François Tétaz; Video-makers Margie Medlin and Ben Speth and Designers Martin Grant, Kara Baker and Richard Nylon.
For VIANNE, LASICA has brought together American-born Ben Speth, innovative and internationally acclaimed film maker and creator of theatrical environments; Robyn McKenzie, writer, visual arts curator and Art Historian; Milo Kossowski, musician and composer and band member of The Emergency; Anne-Marie May, Melbourne-based visual artist, and Ben Cobham, production designer/director for visually based companies. Together they will devise the set, sound score, lighting, costume design, projection and text. VIANNE’s dancers are Deanne Butterworth, Joanna Lloyd, Tim Harvey, Bonnie Paskas and Lee Serle.
VIANNE is a complex work that requires the audience to engage in constructing meanings, emotionally, visually and intellectually. The viewer creates his or her own narratives, or constructs explanations given the clues provided: the title of the work; is VIANNE a character’s name; the structure of the work; its aesthetics; the connections between the various dancers, the subtlety of movements and the feeling and responses of the dancers to each other. The result is a work that feeds the “architecture of one’s imagination” and is LASICA’S most accomplished and daring work to date.
Arts Victoria and the Besen Foundation have supported this project
Venue: fortyfivedownstairs, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Preview: Wed 3 Dec
When: Thur 4 – Sun 7 Dec and Thur 11 – Sun 14 Dec
VIANNE
PREMIERING DECEMBER 2008
Internationally acclaimed Melbourne-based choreographer SHELLEY LASICA presents her world premiere of VIANNE in Melbourne this December. VIANNE is a complex and engaging dance performance that explores the spatial and imaginary world of a central character. This physically rigorous work boldly interweaves multiple art forms and the rich collaborative involvement of 10 people.
Over the past 25 years, LASICA has choreographed, directed and performed dance work in Australia and abroad. She has shown work in a range of non-performance spaces of different dimensions and usages throughout Australia and in cities including London, Manchester, Paris, Vienna and New York.
LASICA has always demonstrated a rigorous commitment to the choreographic development of her work. Compositions are interrogated and the informed critical responses of others become part of the working process. For the same reasons LASICA’s work is grounded in a discourse that seeks to engage dance with other visual and temporal art forms. To this end she has worked with Artists Tony Clark, Callum Morton, Kathy Temin and Gail Hastings; Architect Roger Wood; Composer François Tétaz; Video-makers Margie Medlin and Ben Speth and Designers Martin Grant, Kara Baker and Richard Nylon.
For VIANNE, LASICA has brought together American-born Ben Speth, innovative and internationally acclaimed film maker and creator of theatrical environments; Robyn McKenzie, writer, visual arts curator and Art Historian; Milo Kossowski, musician and composer and band member of The Emergency; Anne-Marie May, Melbourne-based visual artist, and Ben Cobham, production designer/director for visually based companies. Together they will devise the set, sound score, lighting, costume design, projection and text. VIANNE’s dancers are Deanne Butterworth, Joanna Lloyd, Tim Harvey, Bonnie Paskas and Lee Serle.
VIANNE is a complex work that requires the audience to engage in constructing meanings, emotionally, visually and intellectually. The viewer creates his or her own narratives, or constructs explanations given the clues provided: the title of the work; is VIANNE a character’s name; the structure of the work; its aesthetics; the connections between the various dancers, the subtlety of movements and the feeling and responses of the dancers to each other. The result is a work that feeds the “architecture of one’s imagination” and is LASICA’S most accomplished and daring work to date.
Arts Victoria and the Besen Foundation have supported this project
Venue: fortyfivedownstairs, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Preview: Wed 3 Dec
When: Thur 4 – Sun 7 Dec and Thur 11 – Sun 14 Dec
