2024/2025
DIRt (Dance In Regional DisasTer zones) – Orbost
If you’re in East Gippsland this summer, make sure you call into the Orbost Studio for Dance Research where Rosalind Crisp is offering small scale viewings of her dance performance work, DIRt (Dance In Regional disaster zones).
DIRt has been a 7-year dance with the ongoing destruction of East Gippsland’s flora and fauna. Yet things have only got worse. What has my body got to say now?
Over summer, the Orbost Studio will be turned into a DIRt workroom – a dance stripped back, a book in process, a conversation perhaps… During the project, Rosalind will consolidate DIRt archives, write and dance. These will all be on view, accumulated and rearranged – a creative process exposed. Feel free to visit more than once and see how the materials develop.
DIRt collaborating artists: Lizzie Thomson, Phoebe Robinson, Lisa Roberts, Andrew Morrish, Vic McEwan, Peter Fraser
Viewing times 11am & 2pm
December Sun 29, Mon 30, Tue 31
January Fri – Sun 3, 4, 5 / 17, 18, 19 / 24, 25, 26
… or by appointment 044 726 9930
** Updates will be posted here
Orbost Studio for Dance Research
24 Gordon St. Orbost 3888
‘DIRtywork was devastating, intelligent and profoundly embodied’.
Rennie McDougall The Monthly 02/2019 DIRtywork at Dance Massive, Melbourne
‘…our deeply implicated bodies’
Keith Gallasch RealTime-Australia, DIRtywork at Sydney Opera House, 09/2019
This project is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria, and generously promoted by East Gippsland Art Gallery, East Gippsland Shire Council, Dancehouse Melbourne
Please consider supporting these unfunded groups striving to protect Australian native species from extinction. You will also find ample information on our ongoing carnage:
Environment East Gippsland Gippsland Environment Group Victorian National Parks Assoc.
Environmental Justice Australia Bush Heritage Birdlife Australia
