Spider Ant Sparrow – a work-in-progress showing by Iris Elgar
All rushed about madly towards the end.
Spider Ant Sparrow is a new project drawing upon the loss of Iris' father, Mark, in 2025. Mark was a behavioural and evolutionary ecologist and left behind a trove of research and ephemera from his career. Haunting, seeking, foraging, agitating, regurgitating, releasing. In witnessing death, in witnessing a whole life in retrospect. Mark played the trumpet when he was a boy. Iris played with spiders in the fireplace.
CHOREOGRAPHY by Iris Elgar
PERFORMED by Iris Elgar, Val Emerald & Lucie Coffey
SOUND by Lucie Coffey
COSTUMES by Beccy Clarke
SET DESIGN by Beccy Clarke & Iris Elgar
LIGHTING by Chiara Wenban
DATE & TIME Friday 6th November, 7 pm
DURATION 40 minute showing, followed by a Q&A with the artist
LOCATION Temperance Hall, Main Hall, 199 Napier Street, South Melbourne
ACCESSIBILITY Temperance Hall's Main Hall is wheelchair accessible.
TICKETS Pay what you can. Ticketing income supports Temperance Hall Front Studio Residency program.
Front Studio Resident
Iris Elgar
Iris Elgar is an independent dance artist who works within choreographic and improvised durational modes. They are particularly interested in working with queerness, nature, failure, and the fantastical. Iris values sustainability in their practice, with the aim to responsibly and consciously source their costuming and set elements. In 2022, Iris completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance at the Victorian College of the Arts, and they were awarded the Phillip Adams VCA Mentorship Award the same year. Iris has performed in spaces including Temperance Hall, Dancehouse, Abbotsford Convent, Regent Theatre, Testing Grounds, Seventh Gallery, and Bus Projects. They dream of a never-ending dance surrounded by lesbians, fools, and primordial beings.
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