Gretel Taylor

Gretel Taylor is a dancer, artist, curator and researcher. She is a key artist of Environmental Performance Authority (EPA), as well as an independent practitioner whose work is often site-responsive and socially engaged, activating decolonizing and ecological themes. Taylor’s PhD explored relationships between place, body and identity in Australia (2009). Current projects include Indigenous arts research project Barefoot on Country (with Professor Liz Cameron, Deakin University) and independent curatorial project Dancing Place: Corhanwarrabul, supported by Yarra Ranges Council. She is looking forward to resuming facilitating Body Weather Training at Dancehouse and in outdoor locations post-lockdown!

Porous and Present Bodies: Site-responsive performance in an era of environmental crisis

As the world gingerly emerges from COVID lockdowns, outdoor performance is likely to become a more popular form whilst we are still unable to sit next to each other in a theatre. This emergence coincides with the impending likelihood of global warming reaching a catastrophic five or six degrees by 2100 if humanity continues with ‘business as usual’ … Read more...