an otherworldly spectral entity is partially visible - hovering between a liminal threshold of fine particle mist. There are minimal details in this shrouded light grey realm. She wears an assemblage of grey and white regalia and her arm is raised to hold in place a bone relic mask which completely covers the head.
an otherworldly spectral entity is partially visible - hovering between a liminal threshold of fine particle mist. There are minimal details in this shrouded light grey realm. She wears an assemblage of grey and white regalia and her arm is raised to hold in place a bone relic mask which completely covers the head.
Upcoming Workshops
Metamorphetic States: Bodies, Entities, Forces, Atmospheres - Two Day Intensive with Victoria Hunt
When: Saturday 9th November & Sunday 10th November, 11am - 5pm
Cost: $125
Register HERE
Workshop
Metamorphetic States: Bodies, Entities, Forces, Atmospheres
Two Day Intensive with Victoria Hunt
ReadyMade Works is excited to announce a two-day workshop intensive led by acclaimed artist Victoria Hunt.
Details: Saturday 9th November & Sunday 10th November, 11am - 5pm
Cost: $125
We acknowledge that this workshop is hosted on the unceded land of the Gadigal People of Eora (Sydney). We honour their enduring custodianship, the original storytellers, dancers, song makers that have flourished since time immeasurable. We are grateful to be able to meet and practice in this space as guests, rich with Lore, embedded in these lands, its waters and sky.
Metamorphetic States: Bodies, Entities, Forces, Atmospheres
Can we perceive, construct, and perform animate relationships that are more-than-human?
Can we become the architect of guardian and protector energies during times of collapse?
How must we attune ourselves to the dynamics of embodied intelligence, intuition, dream logic, ancestral wisdom and living cycles - coexisting in radical gestures amid the malevolent forces shaping our times.
Lineages: We will engage with diverse strategies, notably IndigiQueer futurisms, Mātauranga Māori (Indigenous-Māori knowledges) and BODYWEATHER philosophy, which questions what the body is, where awareness and consciousness arise, and how the imagination functions within the practice.
This workshop will offer processes that playfully question the bedrock of how we live our lives. Participants are invited to come as you are, and bring your imaginations, an openness to try new approaches, and curiosity.
We will begin each day with:
MB (mind><body, muscle><bone) - a rigorous series of rhythmic and dynamic proposals which cultivate strength, stamina, flexibility, coordination.
MANIPULATIONS - a partner-based practice involving one practitioner giving and the other receiving a series of touch-based stimulations, with roles alternating throughout.
GROUNDWORK: IMAGE-BASED SENSORY EXPLORATIONS – sensitivity training and movement creation through refined image-based propositions and improvisational practices.
~ Please bring loose comfortable clothing, a yoga mat, water bottle, notebook/pen, and snacks.
NB: BODYWEATHER philosophy was developed by Min Tanaka and his Mai-Juku performance company in Japan. Tess de Quincey was a member of Mai-Juku (1985-91) who introduced the BODYWEATHER practice into Australia in 1989. Victoria Hunt joined De Quincey Co. to begin an apprenticeship in 2000.
This workshop is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW.
Photo Credit: Juan Salazar, COSMOGRAPHIES
Image description: an otherworldly spectral entity is partially visible - hovering between a liminal threshold of fine particle mist. There are minimal details in this shrouded light grey realm. She wears an assemblage of grey and white regalia and her arm is raised to hold in place a bone relic mask which completely covers the head.
Previous workshops:
ROSALIND CRISP LAB - Could dancing start a riot?
Four day intensive workshop with Rosalind Crisp plus two extra optional days of facilitated performance practice and reflection.
Details: Monday July 8 - Thursday July 11 11am - 4.30pm, plus optional: Friday July 12 and Saturday 13 11am - 4.30pm
Following on from her retro-show, The real time it takes... (hailed as the 'soul of Liveworks' by the Saturday Paper) and short workshop at ReadyMade Works in 2023, Ros is back in Sydney to share her relentlessly attentive practice of live composition for performance. From the raw, felt mush of the material body, to her particularly articulated and playful compositional tools, get in the back seat for the ride!
Rosalind Crisp is one of Australia's senior dance artists and a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 1996 she founded Omeo Dance studio which became the home of experimental dance in Sydney for ten years. In 2002 she was invited to Paris by Michel Caserta, Director of the Biennale de danse du Val de Marne and was Associate Artist of Atelier de Paris - Carolyn Carlson for the next ten years. She has created over 25 major productions touring to over 100 festivals in France, Germany, Finland, UK, Sweden, Switzerland, Ireland, Poland, Croatia, Estonia, Lithuania, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, USA and Australia.
Her unique body of work situates the dancer as art maker, critically questioning dance through a rigorous practice of live composition, in all its certainty and doubt. Her long term studio exchanges with artists Lizzie Thomson, Phoebe Robinson, Peter Fraser, Céline Debyser, Isabelle Ginot, Bo Wiget, Andrew Morrish, and others, are fundamental to the evolution of her practice.
Her project DIRt (Dance In Regional disasTer zones) expands to site specific work in East Gippsland's ravaged forests and woodlands, asking how dance can act meaningfully whilst we are hell bent on extinguishing Australia's native species. In 2021, with Andrew Morrish, she co-founded Orbost Studio for Dance Research, hosting curated residency exchanges in a rural area where the extractive conditions of contemporary Australian life are most exposed.
More detailed information on Rosalind's teaching methodology can be found here: https://www.omeodance.com/work...
The lab is limited to 12 participants. Make sure to get in early!
This Lab is supported by Create NSW and City of Sydney.
Image of Rosalind Crisp by Frank Post
TALKING DANCE - TWO DAY WORKSHOP WITH MARTIN DEL AMO
ReadyMade Works held a two day choreographic workshop: Talking Dance with Martin del Amo. Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th February 11am - 4pm
Talking Dance - This workshop is aimed at dancers and choreographers interested in the integration of spoken text into choreographic structures. Each day, a short warm up will be followed by a set of improvisational and compositional exercises that will allow us to look at the following questions: How do dance and spoken text operate differently in the way they communicate with audiences? What are some of the strategies relevant to the integration of the two? What roles do juxtaposition, collision, and overlapping play in that respect?
Talking Dance takes an investigative approach to dance making and aims to provide choreographic tools and strategies to generate, structure and analyse solo performance material. The focus will be on improvisation within predetermined structures and the interplay between physical and vocal scores.
MARTIN DEL AMO is a Sydney-based choreographer and dancer with nearly 30 years of professional experience. He started out as solo artist, acclaimed for his full-length solos fusing idiosyncratic movement and intimate storytelling. Over the last decade, Martin has also built a strong reputation as creator of group works and solos for others. Programmed by all major presenters in NSW, including Sydney Opera House and Carriageworks, his work has toured nationally in Australia and internationally to the UK, Japan and Brazil. Martin regularly teaches for a wide range of arts organisations and companies, and has extensively worked as mentor, dramaturg, movement consultant and dance writer. His contributions to the Australian arts sector have been recognised with the prestigious Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship (2015) and the Australian Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Independent Dance (2018).
Image Credit: Belle Dipalo