RESIDENCIES

COVID-19: Vitalstatistix’s response and actions

In 2020 Vitalstatistix is hosting a series of residency-based projects developing new, live works across dance, performance art and critical ideas. While these residencies have been impacted on by the necessary public health measures responding to COVID-19, which have limited gatherings and travel, all the artists have found new ways to work together.

The residencies include: two Incubator residencies – supporting new choreographic works and beginning producing relationships with the selected artists and their projects; other unique residency opportunities spanning mentorship, creative development, rehearsal and research; and our annual Shopfront artist-in-residence which invites an artist to engage with our organisation over the course of a year.

Our 2020 residency artists are all women developing significant, experimental projects based in ideas and interests that include site responsiveness, labour, the body, feminisms, personal memoir and artistic lineage.

Bedroom

Bedroom explores the space of internalising the pervasive domination and violence that women experience on a regular basis.

Jane Howard

In 2020 our artist-in-residence is writer, critic and Walkley award winning journalist Jane Howard.

Not Today’s Yesterday

This stunning performance blends Bharatanatyam, contemporary dance and theatre in a provocative, politically pertinent and dark fairy tale about colonialism.

ARCHIVAL-POETICS FOR DECOLONISING LABOUR STORIES

Through this project she is tracing a history of Aboriginal women’s domestic labour and servitude, via oral history and the State’s official record.

Sightings

Sightings explores personal and collective mythologies of place through crowd-sourced mapping and storytelling, choreographed site interventions, video works, documentation and public performance.

The Read

The Read will explore the body in service with a performance by a dancer, a sex worker and an athlete.

YES (after Ulysses)

Set within an everchanging and unpredictable physical space, an audience witness the joys and horrors of women saying yes. Part endurance feat, part public debate.