Yield to Resistance @temperance.hall

Choreographer: Sandra Parker
Dancers: Arabella Frahn-Starkie, Caroline Meaden, Oonagh Slater

Conceived as a series of one-off performance events, the first iteration of this new work by choreographer Sandra Parker will take place on Saturday February 19th, 2022, at Temperance Hall, South Melbourne, supported by the City of Port Phillip.

Yield to Resistance @temperance.hall will take place over 2 hours, with the audience invited to move in and out during the performance.

Referencing feminist activism, Yield to Resistance @temperance.hall extends choreographer Sandra Parker’s examination into the relationships between bodies and subjects, regulation and control. The work draws on practices of occupations and sit-ins, with the dancers inhabiting the space across the entire durational event.

Yield to Resistance @temperance.hall follows previous full-length choreographic works ‘Small Details’ and ‘Adherence’, examining the strictures of choreographic form performed by a trio of dancers.

Yield to Resistance @temperance.hall will be performed by Arabella Frahn-Starkie, Caroline Meaden and Oonagh Slater.

ACCESSIBILITY:

Temperance Hall is a fully accessible venue.

This will be a relaxed event. If you have any specific accessibility needs, please contact program@temperancehall.com.au

COVID SAFE EVENT INFORMATION:

This is a COVIDSafe event, you can find more information on what Temperance Hall is doing to keep here.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Choreographer Sandra Parker is based in Melbourne, Australia. Her work focuses on the minutiae and detail of gestural movement, somatic embodiment and perception, and includes theatre pieces and gallery installations that employ a range of materials including movement, light, sound, video, interactivity, objects/kinetic sculptures, and text.

While Sandra Parker’s background is in dance, her practice does not rest on the expectations of the art form or a particular view of performance. An evolution of methods and processes that interrogate the creation, production and presentation of performance can be see across her body of work. This is achieved by applying highly organised spatial-temporal structures, that speak to the ontology of the presented medium, to inspect the relationship between the performer and material, and the instruction imposed on them.

Sandra Parker is the recipient of the Australia Council for the Arts Dance Board Fellowship and a Centenary Medal for Services to Australian Society and Dance. Recent projects include: ‘Replacement’ (2021), a performance installation for Sarah Scout Presents; ‘Looming’ (2021) for Buxton Contemporary, ‘This is a Poem’, curated by Melissa Keys; and ‘Adherence’ presented at the Iwaki Auditorium in 2019.

Image credit: James Wright