About
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I am a choreographer based in Tarntanya/Adelaide, on Kaurna Country. I have created / co-created over 30 new dance works since graduating from Adelaide College of the Arts with a Bachelor of Arts in Dance Performance in 2003.
After 10 years predominately working at the nexus of visual arts and dance, a Research Masters in Choreography and Performance from University of Roehampton UK in 2015 enabled me to deepen a core investigation into object and subject in performance.
This has led to significant creations ‘Concrete Impermanence’, ‘I can relate’ commissioned by Carriageworks, and ‘Of All Things’ commissioned and performed by Australian Dance Theatre (ADT). As well as several collaborative works including ‘Somewhere, Everywhere, Nowhere’ co-directed and performed with Yui Kawaguchi, 2020 Keir Award Finalist ‘De-Limit’ co-directed with David Cross, ‘Things meeting now’ co-created with Bridget Currie, and ‘Progress Report’ co-directed with Alisdair Macindoe. I’m working with Alisdair on our second co-directed work after collaborating on several projects in various roles since 2008, and have an ongoing practice with Ade Suharto, beginning in 2021, which has led to an iterative series of performance moments entitled ‘Maintain, Rest, Value’ (2023-ongoing).
I make work that engages audiences, performers and objects in various ways in theatres, galleries, video, site specific and location nonspecific live art performance.
I am interested in the relationship between performer and sculptural form or found object and how this changes the agency between the object and subject, allowing the human rather than the performer to be viewed within the performance, and considering location or venue as a conceptual part of the development of the each work.
‘Bedroom Dancing’ which I choreographed under the direction of Steve Mayhew for Restless Dance Theatre was awarded the Australian Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Youth or Community Dance.
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Contact: alisonjcurrie@yahoo.com.au
Producer: penelope@insitearts.com.au http://insitearts.com.au/
“Choreographer Alison Currie is masterful, her vision is reflective and does not force itself.”