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November
2007 The Stirring brings an industrial environment to life as a place with a layered human history. It is a new site-specific work which will be created at the CarriageWorks as part of Performance Space’s inter-cultural program in November 2007. Performances will lead audiences in and around the buildings in a labyrinth of experience shaped by dance, light, installation and sound. The new CarriageWorks centre for contemporary performance at Sydney’s Eveleigh railway workshops occupies one of Australia’s most important sites of industrial heritage. The workshops were the heart of the NSW transport system for over a hundred years and the hub of an exceptionally diverse and active local community. The industrial skeleton both reveals and obscures a European and Indigenous social history. The CarriageWorks was launched in January 2007 and De Quincey Co is delighted to be the first performance group to create and present a work in direct response to the site’s riches and its embodied history. The production also highlights a collaboration between renowned Japanese dancer Naoyuki Oguri and leading artists from the Bodyweather practice as it has developed in Australia since 1988 including Tess de Quincey, Peter Fraser and Alan Schacher. As a new wave of inhabitation, work and cultural activity commences at Eveleigh, De Quincey Co is aiming to look beyond the CarrigeWorks buildings, machinery and relics to uncover the intrinsic resonance and the intangible human history which unfolds into the broader community holding Eveleigh’s past, present and future. |