DirtyFeet to present Out of the Studio 2017

Sydney’s DirtyFeet is a not-for-profit contemporary dance organisation run by artists, for artists. In late June, DirtyFeet will present first-draft dance works from two early-career choreographers, Matt Cornell and Thomas E.S. Kelly, at Shopfront Co-Op in Carlton, NSW.

The presentation platform brings simple staging into the equation early in the development of work, to bridge the gap from the studio to the theatre. The low-key performances are opportunities for experimentation, feedback and discovery in the theatre space.

Matt Cornell is working with the idea that when dance moves and styles go viral, they take up residence in our bodies and notions of self, and that this is the cultural dance of a mobile, connected, globalised community.

Thomas E.S. Kelly, on the other hand, will be developing a way to create a new world where Indigenous, non-Indigenous and spiritual creatures intersect. Kelly hopes to achieve this through the amalgamated physical language of cultural knowledge and western structures.

Performers and collaborators for these works include Tiyan Baker, Mikaela Carr, Lauren Eiko, Jessica Holman, Vanessa Marian, Libby Montilla, Taree Sansbury and Kassidy Waters.

Performances will be Friday, June 30 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, July 1 at 2 and 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 general admission. Book at www.trybooking.com.

Photo: Dancers Anna Kallstrom, Maddy Towler-Lovell, Libby Montilla and Julian Wong in Thomas E.S. Kelly’s Choreographic Lab 2016. Photo by Hayley Rose Photography.