The Curiosities series 2010
Variant – first stage development of major work performed as part of LiveWorks at the Performance Space, Carriageworks – November 2010. To be completed in 2011.
With newcomers to Sue Healey Company; James Berlyn, Narelle Benjamin, Benjamin Hancock, Pat Wilson and Kiruna Stamell plus Rachelle Hickson and Nalina Wait.
Reading The Body Installation 2010
Duration: 6 minute loop
Gesture:: Performance | Film | Dance, ReelDance installations #4
Exhibition :: June 15 - 19
Io Myers Studio, UNSW
Installation by Adam Synnott and Sue Healey
Film by Sue Healey and Rachelle Hickson.
Animation by Adnan Lalani.
Music by Darrin Verhagen.
Cinematography by Judd Overton
The Curiosities 2009
Performance: 60 minutes duration
A performance installation in collaboration with leading scientists, new media artists and dancers. Inspired by the processes of biological development and evolution, The Curiosities evokes the feeling of a surreal natural history museum, where the body is presented as a specimen for scrutiny - homo sapiens, exquisitely adapted but curious at it fringes, fragile and flawed, ever-evolving.
Premiere Season Produced by The Performance Space at CarriageWorks, Sydney October 2009
Performers: Lisa Griffiths, Rachelle Hickson, Adam Synnott, Nalina Wait
Animator: Adnan Lalani
Digital Artist: Adam Synnott
Composer: Darrin Verhagen
Lighting Designer: Joseph Mercurio
Choreographer's Assistant: Joseph Simons
Reading the Body 2008
Film: 6 minutes duration
A duet for dancer and animated anatomical imagery, based on a poem by Jenny Bornholdt (NZ Poet Laureate).
Performer: Rachelle Hickson
Animation: Adnan Lalani
Cinematography: Judd Overton
Music: Darrin Verhagen
Choreographer and editor: Sue Healey
