dysonindustries: new dance works

Clare Dyson's work has always struck a bright note on Brisbane' independent dance scene, but she has been elusive and difficult to pin down because her restless undertakings have taken widely different forms. If anything, Dyson's highly idiosyncratic approach might be likened to a cubist painter analysing the surface appearing of things.

Nevertheless, there is a definite ‘Dyson-effect’, a sympathetic vibration that travels with us back into daily life but isn’t attributable to any consistent aesthetic element. Instead, there’s always been what I’ll call a ‘community’ of effects distilled into Dyson’s distinctive emotional tone.

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	Clare Dyson's work has always struck a bright note on Brisbane' independent dance scene, but she has been elusive and difficult to pin down because her restless undertakings have taken widely different forms. If anything, Dyson's highly idiosyncratic approach might be likened to a cubist painter analysing the surface appearing of things. Nevertheless, there is a definite ‘Dyson-effect’, a sympathetic vibration that travels with us back into daily life but isn’t attributable to any consistent aesthetic element. Instead, there’s always been what I’ll call a ‘community’ of effects distilled into Dyson’s distinctive emotional tone. Douglas Leonard - Real Time
	performance works 2001 - current for works prior to 2001 please contact artist
	with me. intimacy \| quietness \| contemplation interactive sound installation about alone-ness and loneliness chairs and tables that react to the body of the audience audience walk throughout and sit to hear sound various installation spaces	ALONE TOGETHER intimacy \| distance \| alone \| together immersive dance installation wtih 30 audience members and solo dancer alone but with the audeince 50 minute immersive experience with audience onstage with performer the block performance space, Brisbane
	being there intimacy \| distance \| betrayal \| desire dance work looking at how we view dance and performers and the changes that occur when we are up close and personal audience seated onstage judith wright centre of contemporary arts, Brisbane	the voyeur secrets \| desire \| intimacy a dance work looking at deisre and voyeurism, proximity and the illicit box installation and sound work + audience on stage gardens point theatre Brisbane, cite des arts Paris, diverseworks United States
	churchill's black dog disturbing + visually mesmerising a room full of leaves, 4 lives + a broken bathroom dance theatre looking at all our black dogs judith wright centre of contemporary arts, ANU arts centre, brisbane festival 2006	medeleven swinging \| memories \| experiences dance work looking at experiences of performance swing installation, performance + audience onstage link dance company WAAPA
	intimate drowning grief \| loss \| tears \| fear \| sadness \| isolation water, milk, salt, ice, dirt installation + performance work ANU arts centre canberra + brisbane powerhouse	absence(s) disappearances \| abduction \| loss sites throughout a disused building: lightglobes, clothes, shoes, fear installation + performance work judith wright centre of contemporary arts
	one fear \| release \| exaltation \| catharsis solo performance for any number of trained + untrained performers performance sites throughout queensland	constructed realities landscape \| place \| home \| nation \| myth 13 sites throughout the theatre complex installation + performance work canberra theatre centre + brisbane powerhouse
	UNSETTLED series I, II & III performer \| secrets \| one-on-one \| audience one-on-one performances that unsettle and move the audience into unexpected places Existence Live Art Festival, Seven With Another, Brisbane Festival Up Late brisbane powerhouse + sean young studios + substation, brisbane	metis art \| science festival installation in collaboration with dr steve hill based on performance work constructed realities lightboxes, grass, video installation + kangaroo poo research contemporary art space gallery, manuka, ACT
clockwise from top left photographs by kate os, michael willmett, fiona cullen, jon green, fiona cullen, steve hill, catalogue image, peter jerimajenko, clare dyson, dan cole