Pictures & Ghosts
9/10/2024–12/10/2024
7:30 PM–8:30 PM
Guild Theatre, Level 2 Arts and Cultural Building (Building 159), Parkville campus
UMSU Union House Theatre
Brought to you by the SSAF
Pictures & Ghosts gathers the recollections and traces of a dance from a time gone by. Performer Arabella Frahn-Starkie draws upon the relationship between dance, and the means of documenting and archiving performance through video, photography, and notation.
The documentation floods across multiple screens creating silhouettes and visual obstructions, layering the use of analog and digital technology. Arabella’s marking, blurring and overwriting of the documentation, works to undercut the accuracy and solidity of the documentation, giving her tactile control of images of herself as she reasserts authorship over her visual reproduction.
In Pictures & Ghosts, Arabella invites audiences into her process of retracing a dance that may otherwise have sunk into her bodily memory, never to be seen again. The performance is a contemplation on the possibilities and pitfalls of archiving dance, and for Arabella, it is a reminder that no time spent dancing is inconsequential.
Credits:
- Choreographer and Performer: Arabella Frahn-Starkie
- Photographer: Trudi Treble
- Director: Meg Duncan
- Composer: Robert Downie
- Lighting Designer: Giovanna Yate González
- Video Documentation by Takeshi Kondo
This event is part of Guild Fringe: Dance Edit - a two-week festival celebrating dance and movement in all forms, held in and around the Guild Theatre, Arts and Cultural Building, University of Melbourne Parkville Campus. View the festival program.
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