Dance On Loan – Shelley Lasica

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 third and final session invites Shelley Lasica to loan us a dance, sharing her 2008 work VIANNE.

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 21 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.

VIANNE

VIANNE is about the space and the place one holds within, and that is also inhabited with other people: it is about knowing and how one knows. Where is VIANNE, what does VIANNE know and how does she how it?

CHOREOGRAPHY Shelley Lasica
PERFORMERS Deanne Butterworth, Timothy Harvey, Jo Lloyd, Bonnie Paskas and Lee Serle
MISE-EN-SCEÈNE Anne-Marie May
COSTUMES Kara Baker and Shelley Lasica for PROJECT
MUSIC Milo Kossowski and Morgan McWaters for PEACE OUT!
LIGHTING DESIGN Bluebottle (Ben Cobham)
INVITATION DESIGN Milo Kossowski
TEXT FOR PROGRAM Fiona Hile
CURATORIUM Ben Speth, Milo Kossowski, Robyn McKenzie, Anne-Marie May
DIFFUSION Rachel Young
PROJECT MANAGEMENT Moriarty’s Project Inc
PHOTOGRAPHY Rohan Young
VIDEOGRAPHY Rohan Young
PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT Bluebottle (Bernadette Sweeney and Adam Hardy)
TECHNICAL OPERATION Jenny Hector
INTERNS Holly Durant, Kelly Jirsa, Madeleine Krenek, Shian Law

fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, 3-14 December 2008.

SHELLEY LASICA is based in Naarm/Melbourne and has been working nationally and internationally for over four decades. Her practice has consistently engaged with the contexts and situations of presenting dance, choreography and performance. Interested in the collective and interdisciplinary possibilities of choreography, she performs her solo and ensemble works in dialogue with designers, writers and visual artists.

Lasica’s choreographic works have been shown within visual art, theatre and festival contexts. These include the Melbourne Festival; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Chunky Move, Melbourne; Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne; Artspace, Sydney; Centre nationale de la danse, Paris; Siobhan Davies Studios, London; Dance Massive, Melbourne; Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; and Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne.

Presenting work in indeterminate spaces is also an integral part of her choreographic practice. Throughout her career, Lasica has organised and participated in numerous residencies, exchanges and mentorship programs in Australia and overseas. She teaches choreography to dance and visual arts students both independently and within institutions.

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