Directed by Gretel Taylor
Screendance by Dianne Reid
Where do you feel so at home you could dance like no-one’s watching?
An exhibition of video series Dancing Place at Wyndham Gallery was the culmination of Gretel's projects over two years with Wyndham communities. Featuring over 70 residents dancing in their favourite places to their favourite music, shot and edited by the inimitable Dianne Reid.
By asking participants to select location and their choice of music/dance, the project facilitated diverse creative expressions of locational identity. The installation included salsa by the sea, Bollywood in the backyard, funky moves at the park, line-dancing along Lollypop Creek, Lisu cultural dance on the Mansion veranda, Shake your Tail Feather at the supermarket, Body Weather by the River, hip hop round the basketball ring and Indigenous creation dances at a sacred site.
Exhibited as part of Not THAT Place: Art versus Stigma at George Paton Gallery, December 2016 and as feature exhibition Dancing Place at Wyndham Cultural Centre, Nov-Dec 2017.
This project was part of ‘Challenging Stigma’, an ARC Discovery research project led by Deborah Warr through McCaughey Community Wellbeing Unit, University of Melbourne. Dancing Place was supported by an Identity, Inclusion, Connection grant from City of Wyndham.
Special thanks to: ALL performers, Dianne Reid, Deborah Warr, Bec Cole, Rahima Hayes, Sally Beattie, Bonnie O’Leary, Uncle Reg Abrahams, Megan Evans, Maree Clarke, Ruth Milhelic, Louise Holley and young performers’ families.
Images: Stills from video by Dianne Reid, featuring residents of Wyndham
Screendance by Dianne Reid
Where do you feel so at home you could dance like no-one’s watching?
An exhibition of video series Dancing Place at Wyndham Gallery was the culmination of Gretel's projects over two years with Wyndham communities. Featuring over 70 residents dancing in their favourite places to their favourite music, shot and edited by the inimitable Dianne Reid.
By asking participants to select location and their choice of music/dance, the project facilitated diverse creative expressions of locational identity. The installation included salsa by the sea, Bollywood in the backyard, funky moves at the park, line-dancing along Lollypop Creek, Lisu cultural dance on the Mansion veranda, Shake your Tail Feather at the supermarket, Body Weather by the River, hip hop round the basketball ring and Indigenous creation dances at a sacred site.
Exhibited as part of Not THAT Place: Art versus Stigma at George Paton Gallery, December 2016 and as feature exhibition Dancing Place at Wyndham Cultural Centre, Nov-Dec 2017.
This project was part of ‘Challenging Stigma’, an ARC Discovery research project led by Deborah Warr through McCaughey Community Wellbeing Unit, University of Melbourne. Dancing Place was supported by an Identity, Inclusion, Connection grant from City of Wyndham.
Special thanks to: ALL performers, Dianne Reid, Deborah Warr, Bec Cole, Rahima Hayes, Sally Beattie, Bonnie O’Leary, Uncle Reg Abrahams, Megan Evans, Maree Clarke, Ruth Milhelic, Louise Holley and young performers’ families.
Images: Stills from video by Dianne Reid, featuring residents of Wyndham
Publication about this project:
Taylor, G, 'Dancing into belonging: towards co-presence in place', in eds. Millard, O and McLeod, S, Brolga, #41, 2017
ausdance.org.au/publications/details/brolga-41
Taylor, G, 'Dancing into belonging: towards co-presence in place', in eds. Millard, O and McLeod, S, Brolga, #41, 2017
ausdance.org.au/publications/details/brolga-41