melbourne fringe FESTIVAL at temperance hall
A boot. A feather. A relic . . . a bag full of useless stuff.
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Dunes Rolling Down Dunes spirals deeply into the meeting point of a conjured mythology. Stuck in a relentless state of dissolving choreography and purpose, performers Benjamin Hurley and Arabella Frahn-Starkie swoop through their embodied and imagined histories like Icarus falling from the sun . . .
Two musicians sync in and out of rhythm, as they weave together sound scores from symbolic narratives. Time vacuumed into a blurry visioned vortex, pulsing in other worldly priestess tempos. An eerie vocalisation captured within a textual world that continuously folds in on itself . . .
A boot. A feather. A relic . . . a bag full of useless stuff.
Choreography: Benjamin Hurley
Performers: Arabella Frahn-Starkie and Benjamin Hurley
Composition: Robert Downie and Oliver Cox
Set Design: Matthew Bird
Costumes: Geoffrey Watson
Production Manager: Jordi Edwards
PERFORMANCE DATES
Wednesday 11 October, 8.00pm
Thursday 12 October, 8.00pm
Friday 13 October, 8.00pm
Saturday 14 October, 8.00pm
TICKETS
Full $30
Conc $22
Blak Tix $15
Ticket Bundle $42
See Dunes Rolling Down Dunes and 《一》by Shian Law – just $42 for both shows!
LOCATION
Temperance Hall, Main Hall
199 Napier Street, South Melbourne
DURATION
50 mins, no interval
ACCESSIBILITY
Wheelchair accessible.
Please contact Temperance Hall's Program Producer Anna McDermott for any accessibility queries or more information: program[at]temperancehall.com.au
Please book on the link below or call the Melbourne Fringe Box Office on 03 9660 9666 or have a look at the website for more information: melbournefringe.com.au
ABOUT THE ARTIST
BENJAMIN HURLEY
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Benjamin is a queer independent dancer, choreographer and teacher based in Naarm. Their practice investigates the aliveness of the dancing body as a way of deepening their connection to personal philosophy and spirituality. They use a queer, witty, tongue-in-cheek sense of humour, to question inevitable paradoxes of humanity. Their work breeds existentialism, while poetically weaving together abstract movement and meaning. Benjamin has an internationally recognised career, working with world renowned choreographers and artists, including Phillip Adams BalletLab, Dance Theatre Heidelberg under the direction of Ivan Perez, Joel Bray Dance, Sway Pole, Arts Fission Singapore, Alessandro Sciarroni, and they have performed repertoire by Trisha Brown Dance Company at the Venice Art Biennale. They have also fostered lasting collaborative relationships with independent artists including Victoria Chiu, Deanne Butterworth, Lee Serle, Scott Elstermann, Emma Riches, Arabella Frahn-Starkie and Isabelle Beauverd amongst others. Their practice has been funded by numerous funding bodies, residencies and scholarships, and they have presented works across multiple contexts, notably, a solo work ‘UpAndUpAndUpAndUp’ which received a five star review in ArtsHub, and a nomination for a Green Room Award for Best Performance. |
Image credits:
Top: Dunes Rolling Down Dunes, video still by Takeshi Kondo
Middle: Dunes Rolling Down Dunes, courtesy of the artist
Dunes Rolling Down Dunes has been supported by the Besen Family Foundation, the City of Port Phillip through the Cultural Development Fund, Temperance Hall, Chunky Move Minimax Residencies, and a GUTS Dance Residency.
Temperance Hall's Melbourne Fringe Festival program has been made possible through the generous support of Gary Charman, our wonderful patrons and Creative Victoria, The Australian Government RISE Fund, The City of Port Phillip, Working Heritage and Heaps Normal.
Temperance Hall acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land in which we dance and create, the Boon Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation, and pay our respect to Elders both past and present and, through them, to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.