LGI HOTBED: Critical Choreography with Shelley Lasica

A two-day workshop with Shelley Lasica exploring how we produce, identify, and analyse choreographic material and thinking.

Across the weekend, you’ll work together and individually to develop clear critical, analytical, and creative thinking strategies for making dance. Through choreographic tasks, you’ll examine the techniques, disciplines, and modes of thinking that shape the way you create work.

While centred on thinking through and with the body, the workshop welcomes participants from a range of backgrounds — whether your primary training is in dance or you come from another discipline but are interested in choreography as material.

You are encouraged to bring something you are working on, either in relation to ongoing studio practice or the making of a particular work. Over two days, we will explore processes including physical thinking, critical practice, and research.

Attendance on both days is required. Bring tools that will support your practice: a notebook, clothes to move in and, if needed, a computer or phone.

About Shelley Lasica

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.

📷 Photo by Rudi Williams. RENDER, 2024 Haydens, Melbourne
Shelley Lasica with, Indiana Coole, Claire Leske, Louella May Hogan, Caroline Meaden, Kate Meakin, Andrew Wilson