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The DVD consists of the PhD thesis of Lila Moore including a link to her YouTube channel listing films and artists mentioned and discussed in the thesis. Also on the DVD: a dance on film, Gaia – Mysterious Rhythms.
Lila Moore claims the autonomy of dance on screen as a hybrid art form, a form which like other creative forms, such as painting, sculpture or even dance, has its own particular aesthetic qualities and limits. The thesis proposes that dance as a live form ceases to exist in the process of its recreation as a screen form. See more
In the sell-out, international sensations of GLOW and Mortal Engine, Chunky Move transcended the limits of earthly form by immersing dancers in an illusory world of motion tracking and projection technology. In Connected, this dynamic is flipped on its back and digital technology is side-stepped in favour of pure mechanics.
Teaming up with Californian artist, Reuben Margolin, Gideon Obarzanek animates both the body and the machine through physical connection between the dancersand Margolin’s purpose-built, kinetic sculpture. See more
Mortal Engine is a dance-video-music-laser performance using movement and sound responsive projections to portray an ever-shifting, shimmering world in which the limits of the human body are an illusion. Crackling light and staining shadows represent the most perfect or sinister of souls. Kinetic energy fluidly metamorphoses from the human figure into light image, into sound and back again.
Choreography is focused on movement of unformed beings in an unfamiliar landscape searching to connect and evolve in a constant state of becoming. See more
The Niche Series is devoted to the choreographed body and its intricate occupation of space. Fantasies on habit, habitat and habitation, this work has traversed film, video, live performance, gallery installation and international collaboration.
Films in the series: Fine Line Terrain, Short dance films: Niche, Fine Line, and The Door, the Chair, the Bed & the Stair.
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Sue Healey is a choreographer, educator and dance-film maker based in Sydney, Australia. Her creative manifesto speaks to the production of a highly-detailed movement language. Experimenting with form and perception, Healey creates dance for diverse spaces; theatres, specific sites and the camera. Her live works and films embody technical excellence and high production values, and employ the finest of dancers. Associate artists Shona Erskine, Lisa Griffiths and Nalina Wait have been integral to Healey’s work.
Films in Compilation: Inevitable Scenarios – Live performance, As You Take Time - Installation performance, 4 Short Dance films. See more
Sue Healey is a choreographer, educator and dance-film maker based in Sydney, Australia. Her creative manifesto speaks to the production of a highly-detailed movement language. Experimenting with form and perception, Healey creates dance for diverse spaces; theatres, specific sites and the camera. Associate artists Shona Erskine, Lisa Griffiths and Nalina Wait have been integral to Healey’s work.
The Niche series is devoted to the choreographed body and its intricate occupation of space. Fantasies on habit, habitat and habitation, this work has traversed film, video, live performance, gallery installation and international collaboration. See more
Sue Healey is a choreographer, educator and dance-film maker based in Sydney, Australia. Her creative manifesto speaks to the production of a highly-detailed movement language. Experimenting with form and perception, Healey creates dance for diverse spaces; theatres, specific sites and the camera. Associate artists Shona Erskine, Lisa Griffiths and Nalina Wait have been integral to Healey’s work since 2002.
At the heart of this series is a curiosity for form. As a collection of works The Curiosities looks at the architecture of the human body – its intricate structure and evolution, and physical and emotional complexities. See more
Portrait of Australian choreographer Meryl Tankard, formally artistic director of the Meryl Tankard Dance Theatre, which explores her early life and works. We see how she has developed her own unique style, integrating dance, theatre, voice, imagery and music. See more
Created by award-winning choreographer Graeme Murphy and performed by the internationally acclaimed Sydney Dance Company. Sensing is a journey of discovery of the five senses. Sensing is an erotic and sensual voyage from innocence to experience. See more
Ochres, a dance theatre performance by Bangarra Dance Theatre, was recorded at the sunken garden amphitheatre of the University of Western Australia during the 1996 Festival of Perth. See more
