Issue #03: Less Is More

October-December 2012
The Dancehouse Diary wishes to take you on an intimate journey through dance as art of thinking movement. Connected to extending beyond our program, it is an attempt to nourish a site for critical discourse and bring a space for sharing the dance artists’ and thinkers’ vision of this world.

Angela Conquet

Less Is More

Minimalism, as defined in the arts but not only, does aim to expose the very essence of a subject by stripping it of all unnecessary features. In life, it works the same. It is a sort of poetical economy of everything. Read more...

Anne Davier

Less Is More

Two dances, two choreographers, almost simultaneously, overturned my representation of dance, of the body and of interpretation. Read more...

Matthew Day

How I Became A Minimalist

I had very little to work with, no track record, the worst supporting documentation ever, limited access to space and few resources. But I had a sense of urgency and I believed that the body was a medium so full of potential that it was possible to make something meaningful with very little. Read more...

Nick Walters

Less is More, More or Less, Exclusive

It is the fresh faces of the industry who push the boundaries of practices past, and by not only providing them opportunity, but rather encouraging and supporting their ideas, that the current industry could become far MORE all-encompassing. Read more...

Antony Hamilton and Stephanie Han

On Black Project 1

Antony Hamilton in conversation with Stephanie Han on Black project . The first work in Antony Hamilton’s black series. Each piece is performed in a black space with black costumes, black make-up and a black set. Read more...

Jo Scicluna

Performance

Actively entering the conscious world once more, I realised that this was as much a commentary on the realities of contemporary life as it was a social and temporal experiment- Deanne Butterworth and Linda Tegg’s ‘Performance’. Read more...

Cindy Van Acker

Partituur Structuur

Most of Cindy Van Acker’s stage compositions are genuine experiments. The choreographer likes to coerce movement by some imposed premeditated operation, which she thoroughly tests out in the studio. Read more...

Jude Walton and Linda Marie Walker

The Prefab: Dancing Writing Building

It is preparatory, propositional, a sketch for an idea, or a rehearsal for a performance. What are the shared states of temporary, makeshift construction that these different disciplines could occupy? Read more...

Atlanta Eke and Emma Kim Hagdahl

The Dancing Body Does Not Move Freely?

Our new Housemates are Atlanta Eke and Emma Kim Hagdahls who will work on the project NAME GIVEN 2: Body Lies. They share here some of the avenues they will investigate. Read more...

Samuel Alexander

The Simple Life Has Benefits For Us All

In recent decades a large body of sociological and psychological research has emerged, which suggests that people living high consumption lifestyles might actually find that it is in their own, immediate self-interest to consume less, irrespective of the moral arguments for reduced consumption. Read more...

About This Issue

EDITOR

Angela Conquet

CONTRIBUTORS

Anne Davier, Samuel Anderson, Becky Hilton, Matthew Day, Nick Walters, Stephanie Han, Antony Hamilton, Jo Scicluna, Cindy Van Acker, Michèle Pralong, Jude Walton, Linda Maria Walker, Atlanta Eke and Emma Kim Hagdahl.

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

Special thanks to Frida Komesaroff for the translation, Michael Fikaris for his springtime drawings, Alexandra Harrison for the minimalist lines, and Dominic Forde (Famous) for his elegant design.

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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