Dance On Loan – Jo Lloyd

Dance On Loan is a dance movie club hosted by Temperance Hall Front Studio Resident, Oliver Savariego. For each instalment of Dance On Loan, we gather to celebrate an influential artist in the Naarm dance community, watch a screening of a past work, and have open discussions. 

Our second guest artist to loan a dance is Jo LLoyd, sharing her pivotal work Confusion for Three which premiered at Arts House in August 2015.

During his residency Oliver is developing ‘Slapdash’ a solo dance work that rips, crumples, cuts, shoves, layers and smashes together movement materials sourced from other artist’s work. Dance on Loan seeks to acknowledge stolen materials and provoke conversation surrounding choreographic authorship, extrapolating relationships between choreographers, collaborators, and performers.

DATE & TIME Tuesday 7 April, 6.30pm

LOCATION Temperance Hall Front Studio, 199 Napier Street, South Melbourne 

ACCESSIBILITY 
Temperance Hall's Front Studio is not wheelchair accessible, with entrance doorway measuring 80cm.

TICKETS Free, please register to attend, spaces are limited.

CONFUSION FOR THREE

“When we leave the room, the dance will leave with us. In this immediate moment, confusion is the only certainty.” In Confusion for Three hypnotic tension is generated by three dancers as they negotiate a progressively unravelling system of choreography. Navigating their physical histories, both recent and distant – from traces of folk dance to idiosyncratic body rhythms – the performers reveal a series of desperate encounters, in a destabilising flood of movement. The questions remain: can this confusion be sustained, and where does it lead us?

CHOREOGRAPHY Jo Lloyd
PERFORMERS Rebecca Jensen, Shian Law & Jo Lloyd
COMPOSER Duane Morrison
COSTUMES Shio Otani
LIGHTING DESIGN Jenny Hector
DRAMATURGY Nicola Gunn and Anny Mokotow
VIDEOGRAPHY James Wright, NON Studio

Performed Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall, Naarm/Melbourne in August 2015 & Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boorloo/Perth in November 2018

JO LLOYD is a Melbourne/ Naarm based dance artist, working with choreography as a social encounter, revealing behaviour over various durations and contexts. Jo has presented and performed her work in theatres and galleries nationally and internationally for over 20 years. She has undertaken commissions with the New Zealand Dance Company, Nibroll Japan, RISING, Chunky Move, Liveworks, Bundanon, NGA and NGV. She has received several Green Room nominations/ awards, including 3 for her work Overture, Arts House 2018 and Melbourne Festival 2019. Recent works include; Post Hoc PIECES (LGI), Agitato at Dancehouse, FM Air for The National 4, Carriageworks and INDance, Death Role for Bundanon and Archive the archive NGA Know My Name exhibition. Jo creates and presents work in Studio 24 at Abbotsford Convent with producer Michaela Coventry.

OLIVER SAVARIEGO is a dancer and choreographer based in Naarm/Melbourne. His work questions and queers aesthetic values within dance, blends “high” and “low“ art and examines the lines between inspiration, reference and appropriation. He has been exploring transgressive choreographic perspectives since graduating from VCA in 2017, creating “Untitled” with Stuart Shugg in residence at Bennignton College, performing at Weisacres in New York City, and “Surface Area” with Chloe Arnott at Prahran Skate Park. He developed an online installation “Creche” in 2021, which was reworked for live performance in 2023 at Dancehouse. He is currently working on “Slapdash”, a solo work of choreographic collage, developed in residency at Lucy Guerin Inc.

Oliver has collaborated extensively within the Australian dance community. He is currently working with Lucy Guerin Inc, has performed with Phillip Adams Balletlab, Tasdance and Sydney Dance Company, and has worked with independent artists Shelley Lasica, Jo Lloyd, Melanie Lane, Sandra Parker, Harrison Ritchie Jones among many others. He is a proud collaborator in award winning projects, notably Phillip Adam’s Triptych which received 2023 Green Room Award for Best Ensemble, and Sandra Parker’s “Safehold”, winning the 2024 Green Room Award for Best Choreography. is a Front Studio Resident for 2026.

Oliver Savariego is a Temperance Hall Front Studio Resident for 2026.

Temperance Hall's Front Studio Residency offers six independent artists an artist stipend and two months of exclusive, unrestricted access to the Front Studio at Temperance Hall. At the conclusion of their residencies, artists present a public showing of their work in development, and receive professional photographic documentation.

The 2026 Front Studio Residency has been supported by the Neilson Foundation, the City of Port Phillip, and private donors.

Image credit: courtesy of the artist