Melbourne Fringe Festival 2022
Temperance Hall
Over two weeks of programmed performances, six artists from diverse practices and unique perspectives will push the comfort zone and take us to the Fringe. Curated by Temperance Hall’s Artistic Director, Phillip Adams, the first week features two double-bills of new works by independent dance artists, Arabella Frahn-Starkie and Siobhan McKenna, Gabriella Imrichova, and collaborating artists Kady Mansour & Michaela Tancheff.
DOUBLE-BILL #1
Arabella Frahn-Starkie presents Ken Burns, a new experimental dance work taking cues from documentary cinema. In this semi-autobiographical piece, Arabella contemplates the unspoken details of her family’s history and considers how she carries her loved ones inside her every action. In keeping with Arabella’s preoccupation with documentation and archiving, her new work takes the act of looking back into a sensorial realm, drawing upon grief as a motivational impulse to look back into memory and wondering what is achieved in doing so.
Relay is a new, contemporary dance work by choreographer Siobhan McKenna that continues her interest in the relationships between movement and language. In Relay, Siobhan McKenna and Claire Leske pass movement back and forth between each other as if engaged in a dynamic conversation. The work guides the audience’s gaze to flick between the two performers as they investigate relationships of agreement, debate and exchange whilst attending to the rules and rhythms of their interaction.
“We like to place you in a front row seat at Temperance Hall so you can experience the intimacies of dance up close. A double bill of choreographic intensities brough to you by Siobhan Mckenna and Arabella Frahn-Starkie. Mckenna, a dance manuscript of choreographic composition. Frahn-Starkie, a choreo-bio-pic of embodied ancestry.” Phillip Adams, Artistic Director Temperance Hall
Arabella Frahn-Starkie | Siobhan McKenna
Dates: Wed 12 Oct – Sat 15 Oct
Time: 7:00pm
DOUBLE-BILL #2
Gabriella Imrichova presents no destination, an-ongoing-forever-never-ending attempt to parallel a queer desire for becoming unlocatable/illegible via one body, many tools, and objects. Held together by some dry ass humour, the body is unsettlingly collaged, deconstructed, and then thrown to the wayside to die.
Kady Mansour & Michaela Tancheff present Two Women Enter the Toilet Cubicle. Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change the toilet paper roll.
“Temperance Hall gives license to thrill in this year’s Melbourne Fringe. A double bill of extra queerordinary works by choreographers Kady Mansour & Michaela Tancheff, and Gabriella Imrichova. These performances offer fierce commentary on gender, from briny amusement drawn out from the trashy mundane, to highbrow manifesto of dunny-wall-graffiti-art performance. Yes please.” Phillip Adams
Gabriella Imrichova | Kady Mansour & Michaela
Tancheff
Dates: Wed 12 Oct – Sat 15 Oct
Time: 8.30pm
Full program information including descriptions of individual works and artist bios are available on the Temperance Hall website: www.temperancehall.com.au
Week 2
Over two weeks of programmed performances, six artists from diverse practices and unique perspectives will push the comfort zone and take us to the Fringe. Week 2 of the program presents a new solo work by Raina Peterson, commissioned by Melbourne Fringe’s Radical Access Program in partnership with Arts Access Victoria. ‘Narasimha – ManLion’ is a mythological queering of an eighth century poem through experimental Indian dance.
“Temperance Hall gives license to thrill in this year’s Melbourne Fringe. A queerordinary solo by choreographer, Raina Peterson offers a fierce commentary on gender through hyper-queer myth making.” Phillip Adams, Artistic Director Temperance Hall.
‘Narasimha – ManLion’ draws inspiration from Tamil Poet-Saint Andal’s devotional poem which explores Narasimha: the fierce Hindu deity associated with the liminal and the in-between. ‘Narasimha – ManLion’ combines blood and honey, flowers and entrails. Peterson draws on their training in classical Indian dance (mohiniyattam) to create a work which oscillates between the violence of Narasimha’s imagery and the sensuality of Andal’s poetry. ‘Narasimha – ManLion’ is part one of a triptych queering classical Indian dance from the perspective of a transgender Hindu.
Full program information including descriptions of individual works and artist bios are available on the Temperance Hall website: www.temperancehall.com.au
