CARE DANCE is a solo improvised dance work that considers an experimental relationship to care.
This work is a direct retaliation to wide-spread ideas in dance and art-making surrounding violence as power and currency, and as indicative of artistic rigour in art-making environments. In CARE DANCE, the self is the primary source of all activities, as the performer follows their present changing state(s) to initiate movement, sounding, touch and their relationship to the others in and of the space; embodying caring ideas such as listening, attentiveness, responsiveness and reflexivity in the present moment of improvising. Caring is the attitude in which they approach, interact, attend, respond, create space, and engage. In CARE DANCE, the performer changes their clothes between three colours: red, yellow and green. These ‘traffic light’ colours denote different modes of attention and relationality as they move throughout the stages of the work.
Created and performed by: Ebony Muller
Photography: Michael Simpson
Supported by Deakin University, School of Communication & Creative Arts
CARE DANCE (solo) (2020)
Published as part of Verandah Journal’s ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’, August 2020.
Video by: Ebony Muller
Edited by: Ebony Muller & Michael Simpson
Filmed on location in my driveway.
CARE DANCE (2020)
Performed as part of hillsceneLIVE festival, November 2020.
Video & Lighting by: Cohen Medson
Filmed on location at Burrinja Cultural Centre on the lands of the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation.
CARE DANCE (2021)
~ COMING SOON ~
Video by: Cohen Medson
Production assistance provided by: Olivia Fisher
Filmed on location at Abbotsford Convent on the lands of the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation.
Performance screenings currently in preparations for presentation at Dancehouse, Melbourne (July 2021) & Deakin Motion.Lab (July 2021).