Over two weeks of programmed performances, six artists from diverse practices and unique perspectives will push the comfort zone and take us to the Fringe.
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“Temperance Hall gives license to thrill in this year’s Melbourne Fringe. A double bill of extra queerordinary works by choreographers Kady Mansour & Michaela Tancheff, and Gabriella Imrichova. These performances offer fierce commentary on gender, from briny amusement drawn out from the trashy mundane, to highbrow manifesto of dunny-wall-graffiti-art performance. Yes please.”
Artistic Director, Phillip Adams
NO DESTINATION
Gabriella Imrichova
Gabriella Imrichova presents no destination, an-ongoing-forever-never-ending attempt to parallel a queer desire for becoming unlocatable/illegible via one body, many tools, and objects. Held together by some dry ass humour, the body is unsettlingly collaged, deconstructed, and then thrown to the wayside to die
TWO WOMEN ENTER THE TOILET CUBICLE
Kady Mansour & Michaela Tancheff
Kady Mansour & Michaela Tancheff present Two Women Enter the Toilet Cubicle. Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change the toilet paper roll.
PERFORMANCE DATES AND TIMES
Wednesday 12 October, 8.30pm
Thursday 13 October 8.30pm
Friday 14 October, 8.30pm
Saturday 15 October, 8.30pm
LOCATION
Temperance Hall
199 Napier Street, South Melbourne
DURATION
75 mins, no interval
ACCESSIBILITY
Wheelchair accessible
TICKETS
Full $22
Conc. $18
Mobtix. $10
Ticket Bundle. $30
Want more new independent dance? See two X double bills in one night for only $30! At 7pm, Double Bill #1 includes Arabella Frahn-Starkie’s ‘Ken Burns’ and Siobhan McKenna’s ‘Just a Hint’. Click here for more info.
Click here to check out the amazing Raina Peterson presenting Narasimha - ManLion, starting Wednesday 19 October.
Please book on the link below or call the Melbourne Fringe Box Office on 03 9660 9666. Head to their website to check out their Full program: melbournefringe.com.au
Contact: program[at]temperancehall.com.au for more information.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Gabriella Imrichova
Gabriella Imrichova is a 2019 graduate of the VCA (Theatre) and current participant in Dancehouse’s Emerging Choreographers Program. Their practice is first and foremost concerned with developing “stumbles”* for live performance, exploring ways to stretch these over long durations. *A “stumble” as the moment where one is unable to reorient themselves.
Kady Mansour
Kady is an emerging dance artist and choreographer based in Naarm (Melbourne). Her practice encourages connection with broad audiences through creating inclusive and participatory experiences and performances. Her choreographic work interrogates experiences weshare in everyday life, often incorporating elements of physical theatre in her choreographic process. Kady’s works include Michaela andKady were here 2021 (2021), You want the disco? We bring the disco(2018-2021)CNUT(2018), andTapua(2018). In2021, Kady was part of Dance House’s Emerging Choreographers Program. Her works have featured at Strawberry Fields Festival and Meredith Music Festival, alongside CC:DISCO! and Gordon Koang. She also collaborated with Michaela Tancheff (Hot Glue Buns) to develop Hot Glue shop, as part of the Moreland City Council’s Festival Development Program (2021). Her performance experience includes Stephanie Lake’s Colossus (2018, 2019), Israel Aloni’s Ripe (2018), and Lee Brummer’s Time of Our Life (2018).
Michaela Tancheff
Michaela Tancheff is a dance artist based in Naarm. Her performance experience includes Token Armies (Chunky Move), Colossus (Stephanie Lake Company), as well as works by emerging choreographers, Michaela and Kady Were Here 2021 (Kady Mansour), A Study Of Being (Kayla Douglas) and Human Patterning (Damian Meredith). She has an ongoing collaboration process with Kady Mansour creating dance works as well as delivering community engagement projects as their duo Hot Glue Buns. Michaela graduated from Transit Dance in 2018.
Image credits:
Feature image: Gabriella Imrichova in no destination, courtesy of the artist
Middle: Kady Mansour, photo credit: Remy Bergner
Bottom: Gabriella Imrichova in no destination, courtesy of the artist
Temperance Hall acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land in which we dance and create, the Bunurong 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.
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