Into the Woods
by Melanie Lane
Into the Woods treads between fact and fiction, tragedy and horror. Fragments of historical records from the Middle Ages are extrapolated and re-configured into an imagined future. In collaboration with visual artist Tianyi Liao (Shanghai).
Content warnings: Includes descriptions of violence
Creative team
Choreographer/Performer: Melanie Lane
Artistic Collaboration: Sara Black
Video Animation: Tianyi Liao
Music: Ludwig Van Beethoven, Positive Centre, Guillaume de Machaut
Thank you
Special thanks to QL2, Belconnen Arts Centre, Chris Clark, Amélie Langevin and Raisa Kröger.
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Roses
by Rachael Wisby
(this is me imagining things)
“She descends without falling”
References
Ballet as Ideology: Giselle Act II – Evan Alderson
Dawn – Octavia Butler
Recollections of my non-existence – Rebecca Solnit
Orwell’s Roses – Rebecca Solnit
What Killed Giselle? – Marian Smith
Reworking the ballet: Counter Narratives and Alternative Bodies – Vida L. Midgelow
Giselle by the Bolshoi Ballet theatre (SOURCE)
Choreography As a cenotaph: The Memory of Movement – Gabriele Brandstetter
The Red Shoes – Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
Read Rachael Wisby’s essay on Roses
Content warnings: Haze and partial nudity
Creative team
Choreographer/Performer: Rachael Wisby
Composer: Rachel Lewindon
Costume Designer: Hailey Scott
Script Writer: David Bitzer
Thank you
I would like to thank everyone at LGI and my collaborators for their generous support of this work. I would also like to thank Phillip Adams and Temperance Hall for their ongoing support of my choreographic research. Thank-you too to my partner Nasim Patel for asking the hard questions like “where are you going with this?”
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Tiny Infinite Deaths
by Amber McCartney
The maggot will be your guide through the in-between. Don’t take anything with you, remove your jewellery, watch and unzip.
Content warnings: Horror themes
Creative team
Costume Designer Andrew Treloar
Composer Makeda Zucco
Thank you
Lucy Guerin, Estelle Conley and the LGI staff, The Substation, Tom Willis, Zsusza Gaynor Mihaly, Andrew Treloar, Makeda Zucco, Hailey Scott, Alex Winter, Sam and Ruby Giles.