GRETEL TAYLOR
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POETICS OF HOME

Five screendance works by Melbourne dance artists responding to the home as site
This project curated by Gretel Taylor invited dancers with expertise in site-specificity and creating dance for video, to draw inspiration from Gaston Bachelard's classic text, The Poetics of Space, to create short screendance works with/in their homes. 

Created during the COVID-19 lockdown period, the project focuses on close-range kinaesthetic relationships with familiar objects and architecture, revisiting Bachelard's Poetics as a catalyst for danced departures. Bachelard transformed domestic spaces by articulating their psychic and mnemonic effects, to render these relationships alive, intriguing, shimmering. 
Artists: Dianne Reid, Tony Yap, Jonathon Sinatra, Charlotte Evans, Gretel Taylor & Laki Sideris.  

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LAUNCH: Friday 26th June, 2020
​View the video series:

​Supported by the City of Melbourne COVID-19 Arts Grants.
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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