“How Choreography Works”
Shelley Lasica, Deanne Butterworth and Jo Lloyd
2 Oct → 7 Nov 2015
How Choreography Works takes place over six weeks, with current and archival performance, both live and onscreen, existing between bodies and objects.
Long time collaborators, Jo Lloyd and Deanne Butterworth have selected archival video of Shelley Lasica's performance works and worked with Shelley Lasica to make a live work that lies between them.
Choreography can take on multiple forms and can become many different things. It is porous and mutable, but resides so intrinsically in how we think socially. How Choreography Works speaks to ephemeral physicality; an experience that occupies a particular place at a particular time.
Shelley Lasica is an Australian choreographer and dancer whose practice is characterized by cross-disciplinary collaborations and an interest in the presentation of dance in various spatial contexts.
The prolific and vast repertoire of Lasica’s choreographic works and installations spans 30 years and includes Melbourne Festival, PS122, New York, National Gallery of Victoria, La Mama, Melbourne, Siobhan Davies Studios (London), RMIT Design Hub, Dance Massive and Anna Schwartz Gallery.
Her career illustrates an enduring interest in thinking about dance and movement and the many contexts in which they occur. She is concerned with what dance means to people, how it functions and how it can be used to shape our experience of the world.
Recent works and collaborations include Represent (2014), with Tony Clark, and two works as part of Melbourne Now (2014): Inside Vianne Again (2014), with artists Helen Grogan and Anne-Marie May, and As we make it. She also appears in the work of artists Bridie Lunney and Alicia Frankovich, and with Katie Lee and Nathan Gray in works during 2014 and 2015.
Lasica was recently awarded the 2014 ANAT / Synapse Residency with the Centre for Eye Research, University of Melbourne, where she worked with both sighted and vision-impaired participants at the junction between contemporary dance and scientific enquiry in the realm of proprioception. Her new work SOLOS FOR OTHER PEOPLE was premiered in Melbourne as part of Dance Massive in March 2015. Presented in the Basketball Gymnasium at Carlton Baths with 10 dancers and the work of Anne Marie May, mise-en-scène, Belinda Hellier, costume and Milo Kossowski, music.
Deanne Butterworth is a choreographer and dancer with a career spanning over 20 years. She performs in the work of dance and visual artists and has her own choreographic practice focusing on collaborating with others.
Jo Lloyd is a Melbourne choreographer and performer who graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts. She has presented her work in Japan, Hong Kong, Melbourne International Arts Festival and Dance Massive.