Slapdash – Oliver Savariego

Temperance Hall Front Studio Resident Oliver Savariego presents a new solo work-in-progress, Slapdash.

Slapdash is a choreographic collage of stolen materials, and a personal processing of influence and context. The work rips, crumples, cuts, shoves, layers and smashes together movement materials sourced from Oliver's experiences and inspirations in dance. Leaning into inherent tensions in appropriative practices, choreography is corrupted through recollection, iteration, translation and digitisation, and definition between materials is smudged intentionally by their new, heavy handed author. Violence turns inward, and choreographic demands progressively shed layers of confidence, revealing a vulnerable, fallible person underneath the veil of performance object.

CREATED AND PERFORMED BY Oliver Savariego

PERFORMERS Oliver Savariego and Robert Downie

SOUND Robert Downie

DRAMATURG Marcus McKenzie

STUDIO CONSULTANT Rikia Bell

ARTISTS STOLEN FROM Andrew Treloar, Angela Goh, Anne-Marie May, Antony Hamilton, Atlanta Eke, Babette Mangolte, Boris Charmatz, Charlie Lee, Darren Gill, Deanne Butterworth, Dinu Corminboeuf, Eero Aarnio, Gemma Sattler, Gideon Obarzanek, Harrison Ritchie-Jones, Isadora Duncan, Jeff Busby, Jessica Goodfellow, Jo Lloyd, Julianne Moore, Justin Bieber, Kylie Minogue, Lee Osmond, Loie Fuller, Luci Young, Lucy Guerin, Lucy Guerin, Marcus McKenzie, Melanie Lane, Melati Suryodarmo, Michel Gondry, Molly McKenzie, Nana Bilus Abaffy, Oliver Savariego, Paul Thomas Anderson, Peter Rosetsky, Phillip Adams, Pina Bausch, Rafael Bonachela, Rebecca Jensen, Renata Sorrah, Rikia Bell, Robert Downie, Sandra Parker, Sarah Aiken, Shelley Lasica, Stuart Shugg, Trisha Brown, William Forsythe, Yvonne Rainer

DATE & TIME
Friday 1st May, 7 pm

DURATION
50 minutes, followed by a post-show Q&A with the artist

LOCATION
Temperance Hall, Main Hall
199 Napier Street, South Melbourne 

ACCESSIBILITY 
Temperance Hall's Main Hall is wheelchair accessible.

CONTENT WARNINGS 
Flashing lights, coarse language, references to violence, partial nudity

TICKETS 
Pay what you can.

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.

Find out more by visiting the Temperance Hall website.   

Image credit Keelan O'Hehir