Frankie NO.1 is the first iteration in a series on grief and the body. Frankie NO.1 thinks of choreography as speculation, an open question.

Like feeling the texture of something through a glove, Frankie NO.1 frames the body as the imperfect and troubled mediator of emotions. Hansen acts as a conduit for a tentative offering, an unfolding of figures and fragments of dance, utterance, affect and tune.

Looking at grief as taboo and as monstrous, Frankie NO.1 emerges in the body of the dancer, before etching a story of monstrous grief from the world of Romantic literature toward today. Resembling a Frankenstein lecture performance, an assemblage of effected parts is sewn together through association, through digression. Frankie NO.1 uses performance to search for a moment that is porous and leaky, where meaning can be complicated, unfinished, frayed, a conduit performance in hope of transgressions which may spill forth, come to and awaken, again.

DETAILS

WHEN: Wednesday 20th, Thursday 21st, Friday 22nd August

TIME: 7pm

WHERE: Temperance Hall, Main Hall

Choreography & Performance by Martin Hansen

Sound by James Rushford

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TEMPER is a new program inviting 3 choreographic artists/collaborations to develop and show new choreographic work at Temperance Hall, while in residence on-site in the Apartment Studio.

Bringing experimental, radical art/work/ideas/experiences/research/perspectives/practices/dances from farther afield to share with local audiences at Temperance Hall.

#1 Martin Hansen (Melbourne/Berlin): August

#2 Liz Rosenfeld (Berlin/London): October

#3 Juliet Widyasari Burnett (Gold Coast) and Ishvara Devati (Jakarta): November

TEMPER is supported by Creative Australia, the Australian Government's principal arts investment and advisory body.

Temperance Hall's activities in 2025 are supported by the Neilson Foundation, the City of Port Phillip, the Palais Theatre Community Fund, private donors and the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.