Celebrated Australian dancing choreographer, Rosalind Crisp, returns to LGI to share her relentlessly attentive practice of live composition for performance. As the temperature rises and Australia kills off its native species, dance might need to find new ways to survive. A hot sagging body might be useless at forcing entertainment, but could be a free feed for the art-maker.

The lab is limited to 14 participants. Make sure to get in early!

More detailed information on Rosalind's teaching methodology can be found here

When
Tuesday 25 – Friday 28 February 2025
1pm – 5pm
Please note attendance at all four days of the workshop is required in order to participate.

Cost
$160

Eligibility
This workshop is suitable for trained and/or practicing dancers and/or choreographers.

Access
A range of facilities support people with a wide range of access needs to visit WXYZ Studios. For more information, please visit our website.

About Rosalind Crisp

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 Omeo Dance studio 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 was Associate Artist of Atelier de Paris - Carolyn Carlson for the next ten 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 artists Lizzie Thomson, Phoebe Robinson, Céline Debyser, Isabelle Ginot, Andrew Morrish, and others, are fundamental to the evolution of her practice.

Her project DIRt (Dance In Regional disasTer zones) expands to 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.

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Image credit: Frank Post/Saalfrei Festival Stuttgart