Join us for the next conversation in our Dance Dialogues series, with artists Harrison Hall and Alisdair Macindoe in a relaxed chat about their perspectives on dance practice and art making, with a focus on new technology and traversing digital and live worlds.
Thursday 5 May, 6pm - 7pm
WXYZ Studios, 130 Dryburgh Street North Melbourne
Free, register here: https://bit.ly/3739yqL
Please note: this talk will be filmed for later release on the LGI website.
ACCESS
– WXYZ Studios is wheelchair accessible via the entrance on Little Dryburgh Street South. More information on physical accessibility at WXYZ Studios can be found here: https://lucyguerininc.com/wxyz-studios#accessibility-guide
– Auslan interpreters will be provided by request, please request this during the registration process (at least 72 hours before the talk commences).
– If you have any further questions or queries, please contact estelle@lucyguerininc.com
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
About Harrison Hall
Harrison Hall’s work situates contemporary performance and dance in experiential art environments. His recent works traverse states of flux within digital and live worlds, working to increase the embodied experience in mixed digital and live performance contexts.
Recently he was awarded a Solitude1 Residency from Chunky Move and the Tanja Liedtke foundation in which alongside Luca Dante, he spawned Maelstrom, a multi-channel digital choreography installation premiering at MARS Gallery (Melbourne) and Metro Arts (Brisbane) in late 2021. Through Chunky Move, he also presented BONANZA! with Dr. Sam Mcgilp, a PerformancexDialogue media artwork that included conversations with NAXS corp (Taiwanese audiovisual art collective) and Lu Yang (Chinese digital artist). This work was a 2021 Green Room Award Finalist and selected for the Melbourne International Film Festival.
In 2018, he created The Venusian Slip and premiered it at Mycelium Studios as part of the Melbourne Fringe, this work gave the first context for Harrison to work closely with Andrew Treloar and in early 2020 they together remounted the show at Temperance Hall as part of their Midsumma Festival program. In 2020 Harrison was selected as a participating artist at the Taiwan Performing Art Centre’s ADAM Lab and is thrilled to be continuing his connections within this network.
He has worked nationally and internationally, collaborating and performing with many artists/companies including Yumi Umuimare and Theatre Gumbo (Japan), The Australian Ballet, La Fura dels Baus (Spain), Phillip Adams’ Balletlab, Shaun Parker Company + Ivo Dimchev (Bulgaria), Gideon Obarzanek, Lucy Guerin Inc, Chunky Move and Dancenorth.
About Alisdair Macindoe
Alisdair Macindoe is an independent multidisciplinary choreographer living on Woi Wurrung country (Melbourne, Australia). With an interest in extending the boundaries of choreographic practice, Alisdair’s work spans dance, sound, electronics, coding and text. Recent works have seen him explore automated dance and Artificial Intelligence; new technology for music expression; trans-humanism; waste and climate change and identity in the age of narcissism.
Alisdair’s independent and collaborative work has been commissioned and presented widely, including Forgery (2021, Australasian Dance Collective & Brisbane Festival); Progress Report (2021, with co-director Alison Currie for Vitalstatistix); System Error (2021, co-created with Chamber Made & Tamara Saulwick for Arts House); Reference Material (2021, Darebin Speakeasy); Noncompete (2018, The Substation); Meeting (2015, with co-creator Antony Hamilton, commissioned by Arts House, presented across 35 international seasons) and Bromance (2010, Next Wave, Arts House & Performance Space).
Over 2020-21, Alisdair developed the training and creation tool, A.I.D., to facilitate computer generated choreographic instruction. Collaboration with presenting partners and educational institutions influence the design of each new project and the system is also available as a remote, online experience, A.I.D Online. Alisdair has received 5 Greenroom awards; an Australian Helpmann Award and a New York Performing Arts Award ‘Bessie’. He was the 2019 Resident Director for Lucy Guerin Inc; the 2019 Ausdance Peggy Van Praagh Fellow; the 2020 Dancenorth NO-SHOW resident and a 2020-21 Sidney Myer Foundation Creative Fellow. He is a current board member of Ausdance Victoria.