And a one-off performance party for FRAME: a biennial of dance
One of the most exciting and challenging experimental choreographers working in Melbourne today, Abaffy is a Zagreb-born, Melbourne and Brussels-based artist with a background in philosophy and a foreground in experimental performance and dance. Her career has taken her all over the world as a creator and performer at numerous festivals and events. In Australia, she has presented her work at Dance Massive, Underbelly Arts Festival in Sydney, and was a finalist in the 2018 Keir Choreographic Award.
Inspired by medieval bestiaries, which were an elaborately illustrated compendium of both real and imaginary animals, minerals and other forms of life, the work sets into motion a kaleidoscopic world of motley menageries and yet unrealised environments. A BESTIARY OF UNIMAGINABLE ANIMALS is in pursuit of the untouchable utopia and plays with a self-organising animality as it moves through a fragile habitat that can shift or break at any moment.
Performance Dates: 1 March – 4 March
Tickets: $20-$35
George is one of Australia’s most experimental artists. The focus of his 20-year artistic practice has been dance and participatory performance. His recent work at RISING festival at NGV work, Still Lives: Making a Mark was the hit of the festival – a recreation of a famous mark from AFL history suspending five football players from ropes attached to the ceiling in the Great Hall.
ALIENS OF EXTRAORDINARY ABILITY takes its title from the bizarre name of the artist-visa required for a creative to enter, reside and work in the USA. These happenings intend to reclaim “othering” and transform such through a gathering that celebrates the electric, inclusive and spontaneous energy of Naarm’s incredible alternative queer party scene.
Performance date: 25 March
Tickets: $20-45 (pay as you feel)
Full program information including descriptions of individual works and artist bios are available on the Temperance Hall website: www.temperancehall.com.au
Venue: Temperance Hall, 199 Napier St, South Melbourne www.temperancehall.com.au
Aliens of Extraordinary Ability, Maggz, Design by Shaun Mayweather
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