Gogi explores the powerful inheritance of female independence and sisterhood, the discomfort of being lonely and yet the unspoken sense of unison of sisterhood with nature and women. The call of the ocean inspires a longing to be and to move as one organism.
Filmed across breathtaking Australian landscape, this poetic short film is carrying a journey of separation and fragility arriving in unison and femininity.
Produced by choreographer and dancer Viviane Frehner,
Director of photography Stefan José
Choreography and dance by Viviane Frehner in collaboration with Alicia Harvie and Ashleigh White
Sponsored by Gogi (1927-2014)
www.gogidancecollective.com
Quiet by nature
a site specific performance for
Commonwelath Games and Bleach Festival 2018
Quiet by nature takes the audience onto a night time kayak discovery trip where mystical and strange dancing creatures can be spotted on the River´s pontoons. This work started as a creative development and first draft of ideas presented in Bleach Lab, a hub for ongoing ideas.
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15 Ross street
site specific performance and short film
,This site specific dance duet set in an iconic Australian backyard explores two housewives´ intimate realms and is playing with poetic surrealism in suburban mundanity.
The dance piece is experimenting with the phenomena of (secret) observing of domestic rituals and habits which are common amongst neighbours-their situation becomes poetic as viewed from the outside as opposed to being inside the mundane.
Two women who are sharing space and live very proximally and at the same time live in isolation – is a very typical Australian characteristic. The research will explore the dynamic of a love/hate relationship which is being created by the annoyance of being forced to live with random human beings that would never be our friends, but then the possibility of them becoming the closest witness to our lives and possibly a support.
The performance has outstanding visual and filmic scenes which led the artists to produce and create a short film with support from Artstate NSW and NORPA Lismore
performed at Crack Theatre Festival 2017 and in Lennox head
Dance: Viviane Frehner, Kimberly McIntyre
Music: Barry Hill
The dance piece is experimenting with the phenomena of (secret) observing of domestic rituals and habits which are common amongst neighbours-their situation becomes poetic as viewed from the outside as opposed to being inside the mundane.
Two women who are sharing space and live very proximally and at the same time live in isolation – is a very typical Australian characteristic. The research will explore the dynamic of a love/hate relationship which is being created by the annoyance of being forced to live with random human beings that would never be our friends, but then the possibility of them becoming the closest witness to our lives and possibly a support.
The performance has outstanding visual and filmic scenes which led the artists to produce and create a short film with support from Artstate NSW and NORPA Lismore
performed at Crack Theatre Festival 2017 and in Lennox head
Dance: Viviane Frehner, Kimberly McIntyre
Music: Barry Hill
Patterns
site specific and audience immersive performance
Patterns is the working title of a new site-specific dance work by VK Collective - Vivian Frehner and Kimberley McIntyre, in collaboration with dancers Phil Blackman and Colleen Coy. The performance has been devised for and inspired by ‘The Quad’ public community art space in Lismore CBD.
The concept of the work is four dancers, moving and responding to each other supported by four musicians performing a new musical work composed by Australian musician Barry Hill.
Patterns is influenced by the work of Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker and hybridised improvised movement concepts including “walking scores” that engage with De Keersmaeker’s thematic aim: to “intensify the relation between dance and music”. Patterns investigates abstract play and responses within a non-linear narrative. Framed by the space as a spatialised image, it is a return to pure movement.
The music accompanying the work is a composition entitled “Iti Wan Seju” and is music for tuned mallet percussion and electronics. It is performed by students and alumni of the Southern Cross Contemporary Music Program. As a compositional work it is informed by the musical ideas of composers Brian Eno and Steve Reich and Electro minimalists Autechre. The sounds are inspired by imagery of a strange future Anthropocene/urban space.
The music is formed from two short number sequences that add up to 16; the first sequence 727. The second sequence 33433.
These number sequences are reordered doubled, redivided, mirrored, retrograded to form cells of longer sequences e.g. 727 772 277 772 277 772 16261, 33433 34333 43333
These sequences are used to create two intertwining, diatonic, repetitive and slightly confusing melodic voicings; a sonification of repeating code reflecting our contemporary human identity as increasingly repetitive and formulaic; defined only by unintelligible number sequences existing in the digital binary virtual space.
This performance of Patterns has been funded by the “Plein Air” artist residency program; fostering the development of art works that explore themes relating to the cultural activation of public space, It is part of a series of new works curated and directed by the Lismore Regional Art Gallery and sponsored by Southern Cross University and the Northern Rivers Conservatorium.
Pop up duet - Nambucca Vwall
In @gogidancecollectives pop up duets series the idea was to breathe life into the public spaces of our communities in Nambucca Heads, Gold Coast and Perth. This is the first pop up duets of the series. Shot by Simon Portus. Dance: Viviane Freher and Nancy Sposato.