DVA candidate, dancer, photographer and filmmaker Sonia York-Pryce presents an award-winning visual documentation Interprète/Inappropriate Behaviour celebrating the mature dancer’s corporeal difference and how their practice rather than their age defines them. 

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Eight dancers, four from Sydney and four from London, interpret Sonia’s dance motif created when she was a student at Laban in 1987. Appropriating an idea based on French artist Sophie Calle ‘s body of work Take care of yourself,  Sonia requested the dancers to re-interpret, copy, ignore or embellish her dance Motif thereby creating a new embodied dialogue of movement.  Eight solo dances were filmed and then later re-edited to produce the final film Interprète /Inappropriate Behaviour, which was the Gold Award winner at Pavilion Dance South West’s Joie de Vivre 2015 film competition focusing on the older dancer.

 

The Dancers:

Anca Frankenhaeuser, former London Contemporary Dance Theatre,

Australian Dance Artists

Patrick Harding-Irmer, former London Contemporary Dance Theatre,

Australian Dance Artists

Susan Barling, former Sydney Dance Company, Australian Dance Artists

Ross Philip, former Sydney Dance Company, Australian Dance Artists

 

Jennifer Jackson, former soloist the Royal Ballet Company,

Dancing the Invisible, UK

Susie Crow, former soloist Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet Company,

Ballet in Small Spaces, UK

Ann Dickie, former Ballet Rambert, From Here to Maturity, UK

Nicholas Minns, former Les Grands Ballets de Canadiens,

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