26 - 30 MAY 2004
PERFORMANCE SPACE, SYDNEY

embrace: AN IMMODEST GREEN

Victoria Hunt, Santanu Bose, photo: Mayu Kanamori

a collaboration with Kolkata performer Santanu Bose
and deQco performers Victoria Hunt & Kristina Harrison
Installation & Lighting: Richard Manner
Texts: Rabindranath Thakur (Tagore), Rg Veda,
Arundhati Roy, Ashish Nandy
Video: Sam James
Sound Design: Shannon O'Neil
Hosts: Linda Luke, Ailsa Richardson, Koon Fei Wong, Danielle Wench
Choreography & Direction: Tess de Quincey

We invite you to wander with us through the unnameable...
a seething within a fan of intense colours; an immersion in emotive textures; a negotiation of borderlines - of darkness and humour, of death and the divine; an insistent heartbeat of generosity and violence holding wild, blackened woolly twists in an embrace of The Other.

This performance installation builds on deQco’s 3-month residency entitled The Natyashastra & Body Weather in Kolkata, India last year.

Bringing dance and inter-disciplinary practice into different terrains in different countries – from city to desert – De Quincey Co creates works concerned with ‘inhabitation’ and the ‘nature of place’ with an emphasis on site-specific and time-based ‘durational’ works.

REVIEW: Sydney Morning Herald, 29-30 May 2004
RealTime 62, August/September 2004

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13 June 2004
KIANNINY BAY, TATHRA, SOUTH COAST, NSW

embrace: A GREEN WAVE

Supported by SEAR - SOUTH EASTERN ARTS REGION
and FLING YOUTH THEATRE

Kristina Harrison photo: Stuart Carless

AUGUST 12-13, 2004
PERFORMANCE SPACE
as part of Res Artis International Conference

embrace: CHANGING STATE

Tess de Quincey, Victoria Hunt and Kristina Harrison photo: Russell Emerson

a collaboration with Kolkata performer Santanu Bose
and DQC performers Victoria Hunt, Kristina Harrison Tess de Quincey,
Koon Fei Wong, Linda Luke.
Installation & Lighting: Richard Manner
Video: Sam James
Sound Design: Shannon O'Neil
Choreography & Direction: Tess de Quincey

Main Structural & Conceptual Source: The Natyashastra 6:15

This performance installation is the third in this series of performances deriving from deQco's 3-month residency entitled Natyashastra & Body Weather in Kolkata, India last year. Utilising structural elements drawn from The Natyashastra, the ancient Indian Treatise on artistic practice, the performers negotiate a series of 8 emotional states on the basis of their Bodyweather training which is a synthesis of Eastern and Western performance practices. The piece involves an installation and a 15-minute performance cycle.

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This performance installation was commissioned for the Res Artis 2004 Conference KNOWLEDGE + DIALOGUE + EXCHANGE remapping cultural globalisms from the South, convened by Artspace Visual Arts Centre and Gertrude Contemporary Arts Spaces Melbourne and in collaboration with Performance Space.

This performance has been made possible with support from: NSW Ministry for the Arts, Australia Council, AsiaLink, Australia-India Council, Monash University, Performance Space, Department of Performance Studies The University of Sydney

EMBRACE Stage 1:
KOLKOTA RESIDENCY 2003
The Natyashastra & Body Weather

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