National Tour September - November 2005
National Tour September - November 2005 managed by Performing Lines

A dance score in 9 movements

Weaving between the work of three of Australia's most acclaimed women artists and around writings by Julia Kristeva, dancer Tess de Quincey invites you into a feminine space, an environment where body and textuality coexist. This is a raw and edgy layering where resonances of women's culture and female sensibility are assembled in a crosscultural, interdisciplinary synthesis.

This collaboration brings together breathtaking and provocative poet Amanda Stewart with the intense, monumentality of digital sequencer Debra Petrovitch and the subversive trajectories of new media artist Francesca da Rimini. Other women contributors bring elements from Turkish, Iranian, Indian, Chinese, Arabic, French, Chilean and Balinese female forms. Visual and sonic poetry is interwoven with a choreography that is based in a synthesis of Eastern and Western dance traditions.

This is a decentering which touches the flesh of everyday speech. The artists invoke a powerful and subtle negotiation of a potential infinity — the place of the infinite’s emerging and of enigmatic substance determined by presence, absence and erasure.

Reviews 2005 National Tour:
The Mercury, 14 Ocotober 2005
Sydney Morning Herald, 21 October, 2005
The Age, 7 November 2005
Melbourne Stage, 3 November 2005
Ausdance National (interview), Autumn 2005

Reviews 2001:
The Age, 22 February 2002
Sydney Morning Herald, 25 May 2001
The Australian, 4 June 2001
RealTime 44 August/September 2001

Visual & Sonic Poetry: Amanda Stewart
Audio Visual Sequencing: Debra Petrovitch
Text: Francesca da Rimini
Dance: Tess de Quincey
Design & Image Editing: Russell Emerson
Lighting & Digital Design: Richard Manner