Workshop 

TANGLING: A TWO DAY CHOREOGRAPHIC WORKSHOP WITH IVEY WAWN

ReadyMade Works is so pleased to have the wonderful Ivey Wawn teaching a choreographic workshop in May. Ivey is one of Australia's most interesting choreographers and has developed a clear and individual methodology in the way she works. It's an honour to have her teach. We know participants will gain so much from the experience.

 

 

WHEN: 11am - 4pm, Saturday May 10th and Sunday May 11th
COST: $100 EarlyBird (until 25th April)/ $125 Regular 
BOOK HERE!

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Workshop Description: We will have an industrious couple of days - moving quickly from ideas, into extrapolation, into metaphors, into similes, into systems, into dancing. Or maybe it will be backward? Or even upside down? Using confusion as a choreographic device, duplicity and going off at a tangent will be the motors to generate material. We will wind ourselves up into conceptual knots, and unravel them again through choreographed conversations and dancing. And at the end of each day, we will do some wholesome, re-centring exercises. So as to send ourselves back into the world gently put back together again. 

Ivey Wawn (1990) is a dancer living and working with choreography for a range of contexts in Eora (Sydney). Her experience primarily lies in live performance for theatres and galleries, but she has also made video and writing in other instances. She works with embodied imagination and systemic choreographies. She is committed to dance for its pro-sociality and its resistance to the commodity form.  Her work and the work she has contributed to as a choreographer has been presented and supported by institutions such as; Artshouse (VIC), Art Gallery of NSW (NSW), Carriageworks (NSW), Cementa (NSW), Museum of Contemporary Art (NSW), National Gallery of Australia (ACT), Next Wave Festival (VIC), Performance Space (NSW), RMIT Design Hub (VIC), Tate Galleries (UK), and UTS Galleries (NSW) among others. She has strong collaborative relationships with artists based in NSW, as well as working friendships with artists throughout Australia and abroad. She has spent time working extensively as a performer, but in recent years splits her labour time between work as an artist and as a hospitality worker in her restaurant Fontana, which she owns and operates with friends in Redfern. 

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Previous workshops:

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2024​

ROSALIND CRISP LAB - Could dancing start a riot? 

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Four day intensive workshop with Rosalind Crisp plus two extra optional days of facilitated performance practice and reflection.

 

Details: Monday July 8 - Thursday July 11 11am - 4.30pm, plus optional: Friday July 12 and Saturday 13 11am - 4.30pm​​

Following on from her retro-show, The real time it takes... (hailed as the 'soul of Liveworks' by the Saturday Paper) and short workshop at ReadyMade Works in 2023, Ros is back in Sydney to share her relentlessly attentive practice of live composition for performance. From the raw, felt mush of the material body, to her particularly articulated and playful compositional tools, get in the back seat for the ride!

Rosalind Crisp is one of Australia's senior dance artists and a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 1996 she founded Omeo Dance studio which became the home of experimental dance in Sydney for ten years. In 2002 she was invited to Paris by Michel Caserta, Director of the Biennale de danse du Val de Marne and was Associate Artist of Atelier de Paris - Carolyn Carlson for the next ten years. She has created over 25 major productions touring to over 100 festivals in France, Germany, Finland, UK, Sweden, Switzerland, Ireland, Poland, Croatia, Estonia, Lithuania, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, USA and Australia.

Her unique body of work situates the dancer as art maker, critically questioning dance through a rigorous practice of live composition, in all its certainty and doubt. Her long term studio exchanges with artists Lizzie Thomson, Phoebe Robinson, Peter Fraser, Céline Debyser, Isabelle Ginot, Bo Wiget, Andrew Morrish, and others, are fundamental to the evolution of her practice.

Her project DIRt (Dance In Regional disasTer zones) expands to site specific work in East Gippsland's ravaged forests and woodlands, asking how dance can act meaningfully whilst we are hell bent on extinguishing Australia's native species. In 2021, with Andrew Morrish, she co-founded Orbost Studio for Dance Research, hosting curated residency exchanges in a rural area where the extractive conditions of contemporary Australian life are most exposed.

More detailed information on Rosalind's teaching methodology can be found here: https://www.omeodance.com/work...

The lab is limited to 12 participants. Make sure to get in early! ​

 

This Lab is supported by Create NSW and City of Sydney.

Image of Rosalind Crisp by Frank Post

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TALKING DANCE - TWO DAY WORKSHOP WITH MARTIN DEL AMO
 

ReadyMade Works held a two day choreographic workshop: Talking Dance with Martin del Amo. Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th February 11am - 4pm

Talking Dance - This workshop is aimed at dancers and choreographers interested in the integration of spoken text into choreographic structures. Each day, a short warm up will be followed by a set of improvisational and compositional exercises that will allow us to look at the following questions: How do dance and spoken text operate differently in the way they communicate with audiences? What are some of the strategies relevant to the integration of the two? What roles do juxtaposition, collision, and overlapping play in that respect?

Talking Dance takes an investigative approach to dance making and aims to provide choreographic tools and strategies to generate, structure and analyse solo performance material. The focus will be on improvisation within predetermined structures and the interplay between physical and vocal scores.

MARTIN DEL AMO is a Sydney-based choreographer and dancer with nearly 30 years of professional experience. He started out as solo artist, acclaimed for his full-length solos fusing idiosyncratic movement and intimate storytelling. Over the last decade, Martin has also built a strong reputation as creator of group works and solos for others. Programmed by all major presenters in NSW, including Sydney Opera House and Carriageworks, his work has toured nationally in Australia and internationally to the UK, Japan and Brazil. Martin regularly teaches for a wide range of arts organisations and companies, and has extensively worked as mentor, dramaturg, movement consultant and dance writer. His contributions to the Australian arts sector have been recognised with the prestigious Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship (2015) and the Australian Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Independent Dance (2018).
 

Image Credit: Belle Dipalo

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Metamorphetic States: Bodies, Entities, Forces, Atmospheres 

Two Day Intensive with Victoria Hunt  

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ReadyMade Works is excited to announce a two-day workshop intensive led by acclaimed artist Victoria Hunt. ​

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Details: Saturday 9th November & Sunday 10th November, 11am - 5pm

Cost: $125​​​​

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We acknowledge that this workshop is hosted on the unceded land of the Gadigal People of Eora (Sydney). We honour their enduring custodianship, the original storytellers, dancers, song makers that have flourished since time immeasurable. We are grateful to be able to meet and practice in this space as guests, rich with Lore, embedded in these lands, its waters and sky.