IMMERSE is a series of labs led by a practising professional contemporary artists each with a focus on a particular physical and creative inquiry. It is an initiative of Australian Dance Party responding to a need for more professional development opportunities, employment and connections within the ACT dance community.
Immerse enables an environment for professional dance artists to explore, test and discover, connect and network, and explore new ways of working/moving. The aim is to dig a little deeper into a process or approach, extending the creative curiosities and physical development of movers and makers in the ACT.
Open to professional performing artists and makers across disciplines with an interest in physical performance/choreography, tertiary students, and QL2 senior students. All ages and abilities are welcome.
Immerse Labs are held at QL2 Dance, Gorman Arts Centre.
Previous Lab artist include: Alice Lee Holland, Amrita Hepi, Ashlee Bye, Debora di Centa, James Batchelor, Kath Papas, Lucky Lartey, Liz Lea, Matt Shilcock, Melanie Lane, Rhiannon Newton and Sara Black.
- Cost: $20-60 approx.
- Where: Quantum Leap Australia Theatre at Gorman Arts Centre.
- Enquiries: email secretary@australiandance.party
Upcoming Lab
Immerse Lab with Amber McCartney
This lab will be an exploration of sensation and transformation through costume, character and physical modalities. We will uncover new movement possibilities by exploring the materiality of the body through guided improvisation and the creation of wearable objects. Rather than simply altering appearance, these objects generate new movement pathways and physical limitations, reshaping the body's language and opening space to explore hybrid, unfamiliar and seemingly impossible forms.
This Immerse Lab is presented in partnership with Ainslie and Gorman Arts Centres.
WHEN: Saturday 24 October, 12-5pm
WHERE: D Block Studios, Gorman Arts Centre
TICKETS: $60 + BF / GST
Recent Labs
MARTIN DEL AMO
Participants experimented with strategies for combining physical and verbal scores and leave with practical tools for generating, structuring, and refining solo performance material, while developing a clearer understanding of how the interaction between movement and text shapes audience perception.
PENNY CHIVAS
Penny shared entry points into improvisation frameworks with an aim to continue to question what we are paying attention to, what or which choices are shaping our composition and to consider what is needed.
PAT HAYES CAVANAGH
Beyond the Body explored how we can stretch the limitations of the human form. In imagining a new body, we are able to find new pathways and extend our understanding of ourselves.
GABRIEL SINCLAIR & JAZMYN CARTER
Gabriel Sinclair and Jazmyn Carter explore the choreographic systems, languages, and methodologies they have created for their award-nominated new dance work Superposition. This Lab was open to two participatory roles; dancers and algorithm artists.
YOLANDA LOWATTA
Using three key concepts: cellular, air, and context, Yolanda Lowatta leads a three-hour lab exploring our expanding cells, both energetically within the body and in the rehearsal space.
MAX BURGESS
The body is a rich catalyst for narrative. Through poetic text, Max has been notating this narrative to generate choreography. In this process, poetic text is generated in response to improvisation, serving as a descriptive indexing of experience. This indexing is then the genesis of choreography, providing a narrative for the body to repeat and proffer once more.
These texts can be deconstructed to create sporadic glimpses of choreography, symbolic of entire stanzas.
ALISDAIR MACINDOE
this is blank text i hope no one can see this.
Since 2019 Alisdair has been experimenting with situational dance works led by autonomous computer programs that guide performers using text generation and computer speech. Join Alisdair as he guides dance participants through a series of his experiments as a means to ask greater questions about the role of dancers, dance makers and artificial intelligence in the context of his performed improvisational contemporary dance method.
