Issue #02: What’s Coming?

June-August 2012

The theme of this issue was inspired by Alexandra Harrison’s project that she is currently developing at Dancehouse within her Housemate Residency. Her What’s Coming? will be a future’s festival, a sort of prophecy for the future of dance. Alexandra asked fellow artists to write a few lines on what they thought would come. We have included here some of those contributions and we also approached some other dance artists or writers. This is what they think is coming for dance and the world in general.

Shaun McLeod

What’s Coming?

The predicament of independent dance artists continues to be fragile: limited funding spread across numerous practitioners and in a landscape in which ‘innovation’ reads like ‘novelty’ and towers above ‘reiteration’ or ‘consolidation’ in a forest of priorities. Read more...

Philipa Rothfield

The Future is Unknown, The Future is Past

While ‘we’ may not know what a body can do, we can nonetheless seek the body as that which will lead us into the future. Read more...

Diary Entry Contributions

What’s Coming?

Diary entries by Ame Henderson, Prue Crome, Christophe Martin, Ian Woxvold, Debra Batton and David Corbet Read more...

Simon Ellis

Imagination

I can imagine a terrible future in which the beautiful weight of work might not interfere, colour and crash into my understanding and experiences. Read more...

Esther Anatolitis

A Commitment to The Arts

The independent arts in Victoria are dynamic, thriving, inspiring. Yet while countless new works are presented by the week, countless more will never be experienced, critiqued or toured beyond their immediate circle. Read more...

Sally Gardner

What’s Coming

Dance participates in the ‘of now’ and does this very well. Being an art, of time and change, it need not be weighed down by permanence and tradition. Read more...

Alexandra Harrison

Prohecies

We asked Alexandra Harrison what she thought was coming. An intimate conversation with Angela Conquet, artistic director of Dancehouse. Read more...

About This Issue

EDITOR

Angela Conquet

CONTRIBUTORS

Philipa Rothfield, Ame Henderson, Prue Crome, Christophe Martin, Iain Woxvold, Debra Button, David Corbet, Hanna Pärssinen, Nadia Mercuri, Sally Gardner, Esther Anatolitis, Simon Ellis

CREDITS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Cover images and illustrations: Michael Fikaris fikarisart.tumblr.com

Typesetting: Dancehouse Diary headings are set in Horst created by Falk Schwalbe falkschwalbe.de

Graphic Design: Famous Visual Services famousvs.com

Dancehouse would like to warmly thank all the contributors to this first issue of our Diary, for their trust and responsiveness. Special thanks to Michael Fikaris for his wonderful drawings, Alexandra Harrison for inspiring this theme, Dominic Forde (Famous) for his patience and elegant design, Falk Schwalbe for allowing us to use his font Horst and Alice Dixon for the proofreading.

This website was developed with the support of the IAN POTTER FOUNDATION.

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DISCLAIMER

The views and opinions expressed in this Dancehouse Diary are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the position of Dancehouse.

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