clare dyson
video
VIDEO
Each performance work has a live relationship to the audience that cannot be captured easily on film. Below are a series of documentation works from a number of performance works. Click ‘more’ to read more about these works, look at images and read reviews.ALONE TOGETHER
This immersive dance and sound installation looks at how we connect and disconnect - it works between the cracks of dance, lighting design, sound and audience experience, focusing on themes of aloneness and loneliness. The performance places the audience into moments of 'aloneness' to physically experience the work, questioning how we connect with each other and whether being alone is the same and being lonely.excerpts 7:43 minutes
live performance 50 minutes
Full show available upon request
THE VOYEUR
The audience is invited onstage to watch this performance, but how they watch is central to the work. Do they want to develop an intimate relationship with the performer? Do they want to hear the intimacies that are revealed on the headphones? Or do they want more visual information – to use the binoculars to see extremely close, things that are usually seen from a distance?
excerpts 9:34 minutes
live performance 50 minutes
Full show available upon request
BEING THERE
This work looks at ideas of intimacy and desire, betrayal and responsibility.exerpts 21:10 minutes
live performance 60 minutes
ABSENCE(S)
This work was externally situated in an undisclosed venue to confront exterior and interior anxieties; choreographer and installation artist clare dyson's latest production powerfully explores issues of disappearances and abduction. audience were transported to forgotten sites to witness this powerful performance.excerpts 9:59 minutes
live performance 60 minutes
Full show available upon request
MEDELEVEN
This dance work encourages the audience to 'experience' the performance and become involved with the work rather than just 'watching' it. swings were situated on stage for the audience and they were invited on stage to play and experience the sensation of swinging throughout the work. This work was part of a Triple Bill.excerpts 7:25 minutes
live performance 25 minutes
CHURCHILL’S BLACK DOG
winner of outstanding achievement in independent dance" For a work of rare and complex choreographic logic and aesthetic, a demanding and assured piece of dance theatre with structural clarity and subject matter that required sophisticated psychological distillation by the choreographer and her collaborating artists".
Australian Dance Award winner 2006
excerpts 16:19 minutes
live performance 60 minutes