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Tangi Wai... the Cry of Water Victoria Hunt Presented by Arts House as part of Dance Massive Tangi Wai... A the cry of water Victoria Hunt Image: Alex Davies H S Tue 14 – Sat 18 Mar, 7pm 60 mins Warnings: Nudity, strobe and laser lighting 1 artshouse.com.au Creative Team Artist Statement Victoria Hunt Victoria Hunt, Kristina toward cosmological creation Choreography/ Direction/ Chan, Imogen Cranna, Performer Linda Luke and Melinda Kristina Chan Tyquin with Jacqueline TE KORE – THE VOID THE BETRAYAL Performer Aylward, Chelsea Byrne, Fausto Brusamolino Isabella Whawhai Mason, Light & Mist Design Amelia McQueen, Black is the black of all colours. Wharekura - house of women, Boris Morris Bagattini Emma Riches, Madeleine The void in which nothing is interstitial beings whispering Video & Light Design Towler Lovell, Patricia possessed, the void in which nothing cautionary thresholds, negotiating James Brown Wood McQueen Sound Design Tangi Wai Company is felt, nothing in union, space sacred realms, portent Clare Britton, without boundaries. transgressions – the catalyst and Victoria Hunt creation of death as a principle Object Design Annemaree Dalziel, TE PO – THE NIGHT energy and force in the cosmos. Justine Shih Pearson, Victoria Hunt From the void, the great night, TE ARAI – THRESHOLDS OF DEATH Costume Design Charles Koroneho the long night, the deep night, Kia Whakamanawa the intense night, the dark night, Journey of the departing spirits, a Linda Luke the night in which nothing is seen, world beyond ours. Rehearsal Assistant Skyla Love the night of feeling, the night of Performance Intern seeking passage to the world, Light - at the precipice of existence Mark Haslam the night of restless turning towards Sound - at the precipice of existence Production Manager Rosalind Richards, the revealed world, to the glimmer Artful Management of dawn, to the bright light of day. THE PROGENY Producer THE YEARNING Lifting out of the bones, flesh and skin like thin streams of mist, A bound space, a loosening process floating into the atmosphere. to become bound to something else The terrifying and merciful portal of Hine-nui-te-pō. THE REALMS NUMINOUS AGITATION Papatūānuku - omnipotent essence of female energy, becoming earth Earth violations accelerate towards Hine-ahuone - fertile soil of Papa, an abyssal destruction. Shuddering earth formed woman towards her uncontainable potency. Hine-tītama - transference of the She waits for us… embodied spiritual gaze, first born, she begins energy of women. Hine-nui-te-pō – guardian of the dead, portal between the spiritual — Victoria Hunt, 2017 and temporal worlds 2 3 Biographies Victoria Hunt Boris Morris Bagattiniis Fausto Brusamolino Kristina Chan Choreography/ Direction/ Performer Video & Light Design Light & Mist Design Performer � � � � Victoria Hunt is a director, dancer, choreographer and Boris Morris Bagattini is a founder and director of Fausto Brusamolino is a lighting designer based in Kristina Chan has an extensive performance career image maker. Her tribal affiliations are to Te Arawa, Soma-CG film, motion graphics and visual effects Sydney, Australia. He has been working and touring with with companies and independent choreographers Rongowhakaata, Ngāti Kahungunu Maori, English, company. He has studied Design at UNSW, Digital performing arts productions for nearly 20 years across including; Force Majeure, Australian Dance Theatre Finnish and Irish. Victoria is a founding member of De Cinematography at AFTRS and Advanced Character Italy, Portugal, France, Iran, Australia, and New Zealand. (Garry Stewart), Chunky Move, Australian Ballet, Gideon Quincey Co since 1999, performing in over 40 Animation with Disney Feature Animator Murray Debus. His roles have spanned lighting design, set design, Obarzanek, Lucy Guerin Inc, Stephanie Lake, Lisa productions. She has toured with De Quincey Co, MAU, He has directed and led visual effects teams on a lighting board operator, venue and production Wilson, Sydney Theatre Company, Legs On The Wall, Legs On The Wall, Marrugeku and is co-curator of multitude of film and broadcast projects. management. As a freelancer, Fausto has worked and Tasdance, Narelle Benjamin, Anton, Tanja Liedtke, The Weather Exchange since 2007. collaborated with: MAU, Bangarra Dance Theatre, Opera Victoria Chiu, Victoria Hunt and Martin del Amo. Since 2011 Borris has been working primarily in large Australia, Australian Ballet, Sydney Opera House, New Since 2003, Victoria has created performance work in and small scale theatre, projection mapping, event Zealand International Arts Festival, Performance Space, Kristina premiered her first major solo A Faint Existence collaboration with other interdisciplinary/intercultural video, live television and interactive artworks. His films MCA, Biennale of Sydney, Post, Ruckus, Urban Theatre produced by Force Majeure for Performance Space’s artists. Her major solo Copper Promises: Hinemihi Haka have been shown at Sundance, Toronto Film Festival Projects and many more. 2016 Liveworks Festival. Kristina’s Conform for Sydney premiered at Performance Space in 2012, was and Sydney Film Festival. He has collaborated with Dance Company premiered in Ludwigshafen Germany, nominated for a Helpmann Award for Best Female Stalker, Legs on the Wall, Strings Attached, De Quincey Fausto spends his spare time working on hardware/ followed by a season at Carriageworks Sydney in 2015. Performer in Dance and toured to the UK and Canada. Co, Synergy Percussion, Victoria Hunt, The Chaser software prototypes and visual/interactive projects, She has created for NAISDA, Adelaide College of the Victoria’s most recent work Tangi Wai…the cry of water and SCO, and has had major work commissioned by playing bass guitar, recording and producing his own Arts, Expressions Dance Company’s Solo Festival of premiered at Performance Space, Liveworks Sydney Festival, Vivid Festival, Nike and Apple. music. Dance and for iOU Dance, a choreographic platform for Festival, Carriageworks in 2015 and was nominated NSW independent choreographers for which Kristina is for Australian Dance Award, Helpmann Award and In 2016-2017 he has been engaged as Screen Graphics also project manager. FBiSMAC award. and In-Camera Interactives Programmer for Ridley Chelsea Byrne Scott’s Alien Covenant and Guilermo Del Torro’s Pacific Ensemble Kristina was awarded a Helpmann Award for her Alongside her choreographic practice Victoria has Rim Uprising. � performance in Narelle Benjamin’s In Glass (2011) and taught extensively since 2001 and currently supports a Chelsea Byrne is currently studying Master of Dance at two Australian Dance Awards for Tanja Liedtke’s Twelfth number of emerging artists to develop their body- VCA, having previously completed a Bachelor of Arts Floor (2006) and construct (2009). based hybrid performance practices. Victoria was James Brown (Dance) / Bachelor of Education at UNSW in 2007 and a awarded the Arts NSW Rex Cramphorn Theatre Sound Design Postgraduate Diploma in Performance Creation Fellowship for 2016-17 � (Choreography) at VCA in 2012. She was a member of Imogen Cranna James Brown is a Sydney based composer and sound Austinmer Dance Theatre in 2011, performing in works Ensemble designer. He has worked collaboratively with by Michelle Forte and Paul Selwyn Norton throughout � Jacquelin Aylward companies both locally and internationally to produce their inaugural year. Imogen Cranna is a cross disciplinary artist. In 2009 Ensemble soundtracks for performance, film, animation and she joined youMove Company and has worked with � games. He holds a Visual Arts degree from Sydney Chelsea has collaborated on and performed Kleenex, Australian choreographers such as Vicki Van Hout and Jacquelin Aylward is a Melbourne-based dancer and College of the Arts, and a Masters Degree in Acoustic presented at Short, Sweet + Dance Sydney in 2008 and Tony Osborne. Imogen’s artistic practice incorporates choreographer. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts Physics from Sydney University. more recently produced and performed Amanda Lever’s movement, media and music and her work has featured (Contemporary Dance) from the Victorian College of the work Hypnagogia, presented at Conduit Arts 2016. in the Sydney Fringe Festival (2010), Manly Art Gallery Arts (V.C.A.) (2016), a Bachelor of Arts (History and James has extensive experience working in Committed to arts education, she has worked with (2011), AIOP/Australia (2013) and the Joan Sutherland English) from the University of Melbourne (2013) and an collaborative, multi-artform processes and has formed Wollongong High School of the Performing Arts, Dance Performing Arts Centre (2016). Advanced Diploma of Classical Ballet from the ongoing artistic relationships collaborations with artists Fever UK, The Arts Unit NSW and the SEDA Arts Australian Conservatoire of Ballet (2013). During her and companies including: Bethesda, Victoria Hunt, Jane Development Program. Currently, she is collaborating as a digital media artist time at The V.C.A. she worked with Sandra Parker, Lee Campion, Australian Ballet, Sydney Dance Company, with Murmuration. After performing in the ensemble for Searle, Mariaa Randall, Stephanie Lake and Prue Lang. William Yang, George Khut, Matthew Day, Hans Van Den Victoria Hunt’s Tangi Wai…the cry of water in 2015, she Broeck (SOIT), POST, and Urban Theatre Projects. His continued to work with Victoria during PLATFORM 2016 She has performed the work of Leah Landau Romancer process often involves creating music in synchronicity (De Quincey Co) and Wallflowers, (107 Projects).
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