Remnants found in you
By Lucinda Coleman; March 2013
Photography by Alix Hamilton & Mary Avery
Found things surprise us. Even if we know what we are looking for, what is found is not often what we hoped for or even anticipated.
The season of Remnants found in you uncovered treasures: unexpected and beautiful. New opportunities for choreographers to make dance work led to new collaborations between artists which led to new experiences for all involved in performances in Perth, Western Australia and in Adelaide, South Australia.
The Remnant Dance triple bill featured Katie Chown’s O-Sea, Juanita Jelleyman’s Shade:less and Lucinda Coleman’s Spring: costuming for each designed by Kate Emily Townsend. Guest dancers Ben Chown, Samantha Coleman and Andrew Haycroft joined the core Remnant Dance artists, for what proved to be an engaging and extraordinary rehearsal and performance experience. Musicians from the Mahlot Sring Quartet enriched the performances with their wonderful collaboration throughout the season.
Remnants found in you: 15 February 2013 @ Fly By Night Musicians Club, WA…
An enthusiastic audience of 169 cheered and applauded throughout the international premiere of the triple bill, which also included musical improvisation by Alex Hey and the Mahlot String Quartet. An additional piece of musical and danced improvisation by dancers Ellen Avery, Andrew Haycroft, Charity Ng and Esther van Baren to cellist Alex Hey’s melodious improvisation rounded out the evening with wonder and charm.
Remnants found in you: 19-21 February 2013 @ the Nexus Cabaret as part of the Adelaide Fringe Festival in SA…
Over three nights in an intimate Cabaret setting, the stories of what was being discovered and uncovered deepened with each evening’s performance. Audience members and critics all responded to different aspects of the performances each evening, but one thing was clear: community was created amongst the performers, which spilled over into the broader community of audience. As one patron wrote in response to the performances:
“Responded to them all in different ways. Loved the medley of bodies in O-Sea, loved the movement from isolation to community in Shade:less and also the body contact in all 3 pieces - gave sense of community” (audience feedback comment 21/3/13).
We found many things in sharing our stories; perhaps the most extraordinary being that of intimacy within an ever-expanding community of artists and audiences, alike.
Thank you to the Department of Culture and the Arts (Western Australia) for their support.
