Topography | Dance

“KEEP LISTENING UNTIL YOU FIND THE BEAUTY” LOCATIONTASkutalayna Hunting Ground Jordan River | nipaluna Hobart | premaydena Port Arthur & Sloping Main Who are we? We are creative collaborators who launch our architecture and dance from within DEEPROOM, a processed-based 30-year active ‘archive’ formerly based in Perth, Western Australia and now based in Hobart, Tasmania. … Continued

“[…+THE BUILDINGS THEY ARE SLEEPING NOW]” LOCATIONTASparedarerme Cranbrook & Swansea Who are we? We are creative collaborators who launch our architecture and dance from within DEEPROOM, a processed-based 30-year active ‘archive’ formerly based in Perth, Western Australia and now based in Hobart, Tasmania. Our lead creatives are Paul Wakelam Architect and Felicity Bott of Great … Continued

Great Southern Dance Ever wanted a second chance? Ever wanted to go back to the beginning? Alternating between chaos and calm are four humans dancing for their lives and times. They’re pushing through with an open-hearted, full-bodied tackle of our ‘not-listening’, ‘not-seeing’ human traits. They’re looking out from the prison of their worldview onto breathtaking … Continued

Great Southern Dance ‘Dancing the Rivulet’ | nipaluna Rivulet Residency: A Site-Responsive Dance Performance & Film Project April 12-18 2001 Tasmania’s newest professional dance company will ‘dance’ the nipaluna/Hobart Rivulet across 7 days starting at Cascades Gardens and ending in Hobart City Hall. Entitled Rivulet Residency, this is a Site-Responsive Dance Performance & Film Project taking … Continued

Great Southern Dance Launching and developing a new professional dance entity’s creative practice: State Stories is a highly significant project because, the company’s first artistic production and launched GSD’s creative practice. As such, it was the first project to test the company’s ideas about itself, which include: that it is interdisciplinary; that it can be … Continued

Corpora Lab consists of the collective ‘bodies of work’ of a group of artists who brought their respective practices to bear on joint projects in Western Australia and Tasmania across the years 1999-2019, prior to the formation of Great Southern Dance. Corpora Lab is dance-led. Choreography, architecture, design, story, lighting, film, original sound and music, … Continued

Tasdance Relax the Chimp was an outdoor dance event that invited festival goers to dance, experiment, play and get physical whilst watching their own larger-than-life avatar dancing on the big screen. Created by Tasdance Artistic Director Felicity Bott and launched via a partnership with University of Tasmania, Relax the Chimp featured the University of Tasmania’s community and Launceston’s … Continued

Tasdance Conceived by Felicity Bott, Hal’cyon was Tasdance’s first work as part of Dark Mofo. It was a 14-hour dance performance installation of sustained beauty and intensity, fueled by the solo dance offerings of over 40 professional, mature and youth performers. It took place June 20-21, 4:50pm – 7:40am (sunset to sunrise) at the Odeon … Continued

Independant DWSTW STRUT, Dancehouse and Critical Path commissioned world renowned USA dancer and choreographer Deborah Hay, with Ros Warby acting as mentor, to work with ten Australian dance artists. Felicity Bott and Bianca Martin from WA will perform their solo adaptation of her work. WHAT DOES A BODY LOOK LIKE WHEN IT’S DANCING TO THE … Continued

Buzz Dance Theatre Utterly steeped in the theme of transhumanism, Depth Charge presented choreography, character, set, narrative arc, music and light, Depth Charge filtered through a lens that was at once utopian and dystopian. Depth Charge was an in-theatre work for 7 performers that featured original and live music accompanied by motion capture audio visuals … Continued

Buzz Dance theatre Rabbit was inspired by the legendary curiosity of Alice in Wonderland and the celebrated absurdity of her journey down the rabbit hole. Harnessing fragments of of Alice’s story as catalysts for imagination, creativity and nostalgia, Rabbit blended object and costume design with dance theatre to convey the journey of an ‘Alice-wannabe’, She … Continued

Steps Youth Dance Company Powdermonkey: Real Boy Real Girl was first trialled as a performance model uniting children and adults in 2002 with Felicity Bott, Leon Ewing and Setefano Tele during the large-scale youth dance incubator  in Fremantle Locomatrix for Step Youth Dance Company. The model was inspired by Romeo Castellucci and Chiara Guidi’s Experimental … Continued

Steps Youth Dance Company Movement Safari was a ground-breaking project in several ways. It saw Steps Youth Dance Company engage a youth ensemble of which 6 were paid (emerging artists who choreographed and performed) and 24 youth performers. Under the mentorship of experience professional performance makers, the six emerging artists created on the Steps youth … Continued

Steps Youth Dance Company ‘Play The Game’ by Setefano Tele presents a paper cut-out ‘gibberish community infatuated with quiz shows. The work takes the packaged competitive tension that has fueled interest in quiz shows since the beginning of television and brings it to a dance context: There are questions, answers and above all , a … Continued

CORPORA 401 Corpora 401 received a development grant from ARTS WA and presentedthis showing at the Jack Sue Gallery. This grant allowed 3 weeks of intensive workshops between Corpora members with direction from Barry laing re working previous performances. Corpora 401 is a collaboration between Paul Wakelam, Felicity Bott, David Fussell, Barry Laing, Michael O’Brien … Continued

CORPORA 201 Calculating Hedonism – ‘Stories from sober and temperate bodies’ – Perth, WA.Corpora201, presented this show at The Rachabites Hall and was technically assisted by the WA Fringe Festival 2001 and Gazebo 64 and was a part of prag/port/pert program. This program also consisted of Paul Gozola’s ‘Cut Piece’ and Czech Republic’s Kristyna Lhotakova … Continued

CORPORA 999 Belle Grave – ‘Baby, be brave’ Performance Artrage Festival. Corpora 999, presented this show at Jack Sue Gallery and was funded as a part of the Artrage Festival 1999.Corpora 999 is a collaboration between Paul Wakelam, Felicity Bott, Marco Mona, David Fussell, Michael O’Brien, Eloise Bailey, and the publicity of Jude Leon and … Continued

Independant What, I ask you, was that all about?. Film & Performance Duo created and performed by Felicity and Shannon Bott for Perth Institute’s ‘Dancers Are Space Eaters’ season in 1997. What, I Ask You Was That All About? is a ‘sister-act’ to the second movement of Mozart’s Piano Concerto in A Minor. Set Design … Continued

Steps Youth Dance Company Taking it’s name from anthropological understandings of ‘totem’, this work invited the youth performers to reflect back to audiences hypocrisies and pleasures of contemporary life. The design by Paul Wakelam and Ahmad Abas involved a large ‘motherload’ that descended from the fly tower and a smaller ‘hearth bed’ positioned downstage. Sound … Continued

Independent New Choreographers A dance with spoken word and body percussion created for a season of independent new works at PICA in 1994, History and the Seraph was a feminist work for solo performer. The male voice and gaze were interrogated bodily and verbally. Text was adapted from Deborah Levy’s An Amorous Discourse in the … Continued