‘Split Signs’ at The Theatre Arts Admin Collective in Obs
ALONG with the forthcoming Emerging Theatre Directors Bursary productions at The Theatre Arts Admin Collective in Observatory, the venue will also showcase a dance performance titled Split Signs from Wednesday to Friday at 8pm. The production features two up and coming dancers - Julia de Rosenwerth and Adriana Jamisse.
Split Signs is a double bill performance featuring exciting new work by De Rosenwerth and Jamisse, in collaboration wiith Alessandra Griffin, Andi Colombo and Any Body Zine. These young dance artists are working towards a language of movement and improvisation that aims to be exploratory and different. Both dancers have worked with award winning chreographer Nicola Elliot.
Elliot was one of the Theatre Arts Admin Collective’s Emerging Theatre Directors Bursary receipients in 2012.
Split Signs is a collaboration between artists of dance, photography and design. Friends and colleagues shared skills and expertise as they worked towards creating a production that is multidisplinary and multi-dimensional.
The first work Split is a solo piece choreographed and performed by de Rosenwerth and directed by Jamisse.
De Rosenwerth comments, “This work emerged from an exploration of significant childhood memories. I recognised a particular uneasiness I felt toward them and in response, through movement and costume, I began to purposefully invert, destabilise and deform my own female body. I became interested in the different political, gender-based and sexual readings that can arise from seeing a female body constantly upside down. As a womxn, I often experience a rift between knowing my own subjective complexity and continuously being objectified (both by myself and others). This is a result of the male-dominant, hyper-sexualised and hyper-image conscious society that I find myself in. A kind of doubleness or split in the experience of myself and how I relate to my body is created. I explore this in the work which began on a residency with The Forgotten Angle Theatre Collaborative in 2016.“
Fit of Peak is a duet which follows Split. This is choreographed and performed by De Rosenwerth and Jamisse.
About the work they say, “Our duet arose from an investigation into how breath, rhythm and voice could seed a movement vocabulary. We chose not to investigate a theme or concept at first, but allowed something to emerge from our bodies. This introduced a tension between being intuitive in our tasks and creating meaning for an audience. Due to our positionality as friends, womxn and artists, what arose from our process was a desire to express frustration and anger, free our sensuality and physicalise our personal relationship.
Our title refers to the fine line between peaked emotional states of rage/frustration and pleasure.
Jamisse adds, “Fit of Peak is a multilayered duet between two people who have been through a lot together and cultivate each other positively on a daily basis regardless.”
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