Creative Development 2012
a dance music performance
co-devised by
Jane McKernan & Gail Priest
with Brian Fuata & Lizzie Thomson

One thing follows another was a 6-week creative development, funded by the Australia Council’s Dance-Music Initiative, investigating the compositional methodologies of dance and music, looking at ways in which they can work both together and independently.

Using research into avant-garde performance practices from the 1960s as a starting point, in particular those of Yvonne Rainer (dance) & John Cage (music), we explored compositional structures that challenge ideas of accompaniment, cause and effect, intentionality and narrative expressionism. Along the way we investigated our relationship with time: how we can manipulate it, and how it manipulates us.

The showing took place on December 7, 2012 at the Balmain Town Hall