De Quincey Co
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De Quincey Co is Australia's leading Body Weather company. Body Weather is an open-ended training which draws upon both eastern and western performance traditions. The company presents works with an ensemble of Body Weather Artists as well as with a team of Associate Artists from a variety of interdisciplinary traditions. The company's new developmental program and auspicing agency THE WEATHER EXCHANGE presents the works of independant artists based in Body Weather and related disciplines. Drawing on twenty-five years of professional practice, choreographer and performer Tess de Quincey established De Quincey Co in 2000.
Bringing performance and inter-disciplinary practice into different terrains and different countries – from city to desert – De Quincey Co has engendered a series of works concerned with ‘inhabitation’ and the ‘nature of place’. The company also maintains an emphasis on site-specific and time-based ‘durational’ works. Works currently in repertoire are listed.
Shiver, photo: Paris Spelson
THE STIRRING
...one of the most haunting and captivating dance performances I have ever encountered.
Daily Telegraph - Shoba Rao, November 2007
...This is a beautiful and unusual work, with excellent performances by the five dancers and some wonderful visual art as well. THE STIRRING is a kind of sensual history exhibition, tapping into not only the industrial past of the space, but also something more ancient in the soul.
Australian Stage - Tessa Needham, November 2007
FIVE short
solos
I can't think of another 75 minutes in the theatre
that yielded so many riches.
The Australian - Deborah Jones, June 2005
embrace:
AN IMMODEST GREEN
...like a precious jewel
The Sydney Morning Herald - Jill Sykes, May 2004
NO COLD FEET
entranced for the duration.
RealTime - Keith Gallasch, May 2003
THE SCENT
TRILOGY, Part 3 - SHIVER
exotic tableaux vivant… an engrossing and curiously
memorable experience.
RealTime - Keith Gallasch, October 2003
TRIPTYCH
nothing less than the essence of life... Triptych stands apart for the superb quality of performance and visual presentation and the luminous atmosphere it creates... ravishing performances… the dancers are a marvel. It's a privilege to experience.
The Australian - Deborah Jones, November 2008
… it is an engrossing and energising experience.
The Sydney Morning Herald – Jill Sykes, November 200
More extracts from reviews (PDF)
Full Media/Press
UPCOMING
impro exchange 2010
The Opium Confessions - Dark Interpreter
No Cold Feet
72
HOURS
WORKS IN REPERTOIRE
Ghost QuartersTRIPTYCH
embrace: GUILT FRAME
Nerve 9
ImproLab
FIVE Short Solos
No Cold Feet
The Scent Trilogy
ONGOING
WORKS IN DEVELOPMENT
Embrace
72 HOURS
THE
OPIUM CONFESSIONS
PREVIOUS
WORK
Skyhammer
City
to City - Walking the Parramatta Road
Form of the Mist
Walking Species
Form
of Scent
embrace:
CHANGING STATE
Dictionary
of Atmospheres
NERVE 9 - National Tour
THE
STIRRING
impro exchange 2009
run - a performance engine
embrace: GUILT FRAME - Melbourne tour
For more previous works go to Media/Press
