excursion - a one-day trip into Rosalind Crisp’s extensive dancing practice

excursion hovers between performance, workshop and forum to give an intimate, experiential insight into Ros’s performing dancing, now. Ros will offer a warm up for everyone, then get dancing. Her dances will be interspersed with reflections, danced responses and discussions. The day will be co-hosted by Ros and Olivia Millard, with interventions invited from Lizzie Thomson and Jane McKernan, and you the audience, if you wish.

Sunday 10 August, 11am - 4.30pm. This is a whole day event.
Bring a picnic!
maximum 30 participants / open to everyone

Rosalind Crisp is one of Australia's senior dance artists and a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 1996 she founded the Omeo Dance studio in the Newtown flour mill which became the home of experimental dance in Sydney for ten years. In 2002 she was invited to Paris by Michel Caserta, Director of the Biennale de danse du Val de Marne and stayed in Paris as Associate Artist of Atelier de Paris - Carolyn Carlson for the next twelve years. She has created over 25 major productions touring to over 100 festivals in France, Germany, Finland, UK, Sweden, Switzerland, Ireland, Poland, Croatia, Estonia, Lithuania, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, USA and Australia. Her unique body of work situates the dancer as art maker, critically questioning dance through a rigorous practice of live composition, in all its certainty and doubt. Her long-term studio exchanges with dance artists Lizzie Thomson, Phoebe Robinson, Céline Debyser, Andrew Morrish & others, and dance scholars, Isabelle Ginot and Susan Leigh Foster, are fundamental to the evolution of her practice. In 2017 her project DIRt (Dance In Regional disaster zones) began site specific work in East Gippsland's ravaged forests and woodlands, asking how dance can act meaningfully whilst we are hell bent on extinguishing Australia's native species. In 2021, with Andrew Morrish, she co-founded Orbost Studio for Dance Research, hosting curated residency exchanges in a rural area where the extractive conditions of contemporary Australian life are vivid.
https://www.omeodance.com

Olivia Millard is a Senior Lecturer in Dance at Deakin University who completed her PhD in 2013. Olivia’s current research encompasses collaborative projects centred around improvisation in dance performance including the AllPlay Dance project which explores the benefits of inclusion in dance activities for children with disability.

This event is supported by Orbost Studio for Dance Research and the School of Communication &
Creative Arts, Faculty of Arts; Education, Deakin University.