GRETEL TAYLOR
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DIVINING MELBOURNE

A triptych of lost water sites
Performed with Environmental Performance Authority for 'M47', supported by City of Melbourne, Nov-Dec 2016

Concept/direction/performance by Gretel Taylor, with Peter Fraser, Yoka Jones, Helen Smith & Bronwen Kamasz, with special guest Boonwurrung elder N'arweet Carolyn Briggs
Sound by Merin Trebilcock
 
1.    
Submerged                        
Site: Elizabeth Street (Williams Creek forced underground in 1840s, still posing flood risk)
Through embodied water qualities, sound, and quirky cartographic responses, this travelling performance reminded audiences of the landscape beneath, before and through the contemporary metropolis.
 
2.     Blasted Away                    
Site: Queens Bridge (once a waterfall across the Birrarung, which served as low-tide crossing for the Kulin nation and boundary between salt and fresh water)
This performance installation referenced a feature of the pre-contact ecology, which was forcibly removed in the 1890s.
 
3.     Meander                           
Site: Royal Botanic Gardens (a meander of the Birrarung prior to the dramatic realignment of the river’s course)
A guided walk upstream along the Yarra’s original meander, interspersed by performance to activate your mnemonic imaginary.


BodyPlaceProject is based on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people in Corhanwarrabul/Dandenong Ranges and Narrm/Melbourne, and undertakes work in many other locations. We pay deep respect to First Nations elders past and present, who have listened to Country and danced, sung and told stories in and about their places for millennia, to share knowledge and to care for Country and people. ​
​They are the first site-specific artists!
  • Home
  • About
  • Current
  • performance
    • Restless
    • A Blind Date with Blind Creek
    • Mountain to Mouth
    • Freak of nature
    • Divining Melbourne
    • Dances with Lyrebirds
    • Body of Water
    • Material Girl
    • Settling In/ It's MINE!
  • Video
    • Trespass
    • Scourge
    • Plateau
    • Hearth
    • Encroach
    • Still Landing
  • Curated projects
    • Dancing Place: Corhanwarrabul
    • Poetics of Home
    • Dancing Between Two Worlds 2019
    • Force of Nature 2018
    • Dancing Place Wyndham 2016-17
    • Curtain Call, Glenorchy 2015-16
    • Flash Frogs! 2015
    • Scarecrows of Wyndham Vale 2014
    • Southern Ngalia 2009>
  • TEACHING
  • cv