Performance Project
Collaborative work with
Tony Yap Company
(tyc)
Artists
Tony Yap: director/dancer
Madeleine Flynn
& Tim Humphrey
: composers/musicians
Naomi Ota: visual artist
Tony
Yap Company (tyc) is an
ensemble of culturally diverse independent artists. Each artist is accomplished
in their individual field of artistic discipline. The vision is to create
a multi-modal form that is intrinsically international in its artistic
language.
The unique artistic language that we have created makes us effective representing
an Australian-Asian experience in the contemporary arts. The direction
for physical dance practice transforms ancient shamanistic practice into
a post-modern medium. tyc foster and continue artistic and creative collaborations
in the Asian region and to profile Asian Arts in an international context.
They create work that is unique in that it allows evolution: they are
constantly looking for a structure that allows spontaneity within structure,
work that is always fresh and current and still within the original artistic
framework.
The company is aligned with, and auspiced by the state and federally funded
organisation, MAV (Multicultural Arts Victoria)
- www.multiculturalarts.com.au
Projects:
Arko Arts Theatre -Seoul, Korea, December 2008
- Collaborative development stage-two and showing with Theatre Nottle and Agung Gunawan
Miroto, Sutudio Tari Banjar Mili - Yogyakarta, Indonesia, November 2008
Hooyong Performing Arts Centre Artist-In-Residency, Sth Korea, December 2007 >> Open Performance page 2
Biwako Biennale, Oumi-hachiman city, Shiga, Japan, Nov 2007 @Nishikatsu-shuzou, shingura
Esplanade theatre, Singapore - 2 June 2007
Ether
was shown as a part of "accented
body"
@ Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Kelvin Grove Urban Village,
Brisbane
- Creative development stage: Dec 2005
- The second stage encompassed final rehearsals and performances for the
Brisbane Festival
- June/July 2006, with performances scheduled 15-17 July.
'accented body' animates and energises these modern architectural spaces, through poetic and dynamic interactive and immersive environments featuring dance, visuals and sound. Not only this projects produce stimulating live performances and installations but at the same time makes use of developments in interactive and streaming technologies that makes links between the live body, technology and the audience, on site in Brisbane whilst being streamed in real time between national and international locations.
Creative Producer/ Director of accented body:
Dr Cheryl Stock (dance artist and Head of Dance QUT Creative Industries)
The Melbourne-based team creates a ﾔvirtual templeﾕ from 10 kilometres of cascading rope, and a sound score incorporating tropical night sounds recorded at the site, reverberances from international temple sites, and testimonies from passers by, collected in memory sound booths in Brisbane and Melbourne and fed live into performance.
The performance song and instrumental ensemble emerges and dissolves as the night chorus reasserts itself in a distinctive and idiosyncratic ritual dance by Tony Yap, drawing on Malaysian trance dance.
Madeleine Flynn
Tim Humphrey
Naomi Ota
Ria Soemardjo
Sarah Rubidge (UK)
composer/musician
composer/musician
visual artist
vocalist
digital imagery
>> Open Performance project 2
Esplanade theatre, Singapore - 2 June 2007
A thirty-five minute performance which takes the audience on a transformative journey through traditional temple ritual practices in a contemporary aural/kinaesthetic realm.
The aesthetics of ancient Malaysian shamanistic trance
practice, Butoh and physical theatre combine with
contemporary acoustic and electro-acoustic composition.
A world is created which resonates with the sound of the
dancer's body and voice, within a sonic score of samples,
prepared piano, wind and Javanese vocal style.
The elements of sculpture and projection create a form of
cartography, literal and electronic conduits which transform
movement notions of the body.
The aesthetic realm and the devotional space is a contemporary construct.
Conceptually, E1-Evocation of a Lost Boy is a multi-modal piece, making
particular use of a variety of media to shape a dance. The virtual temple
is created with the collaboration of a video artist, a sculptor, two musicians/composers
and a vocalist.
The audience is drawn into a contemporary ritual dance in the installed
"temple" created by each performance modality.
The dance is a transitional space that is simultaneously 'internal' and
'external' to the subject and her/his soulful essence. The creation and
treatment of such an 'inner sanctum' takes the audience spectacularly
'up and out' as well as 'deeply within'.
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