GRETEL TAYLOR
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STILL LANDING

A major practice-based outcome of Gretel Taylor's PhD, Still Landing was a 3-screen installation, which included a live performance in some iterations. Filmed on Warlpiri country (Purtulu) in Northern Territory, Gretel explores her relationship, as a white woman of European descent, with this Aboriginal place.  Gretel consulted with senior Warlpiri custodians on sites for the film and some of these women's voices are featured in the soundtrack singing Tjurkurpa (Dreaming) songs of Country.

​Still Landing was presented at Arts House Meat Market, North Melbourne (2008), Desert Park Alice Springs as part of Shifting Ground (2007), SEAM conference, Critical Path Sydney (2009), Dancehouse as part of ReelDance (2009), and Time, Transcendence, Performance conference at Monash University (2009). This is a short excerpt of the 25-minute work.

Gretel Taylor PhD exegesis Locating: Place and the Moving Body can be downloaded here:
here
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