2014
Treasured Altars
Dancer
Choreographed by Yumi Umiumare
Goddesses are treated as treasures and placed on an altar. We observe plurality in female lives - they’re icons of power, but sometimes over protected or locked up.
Treasured Altar aims to recognise and celebrate the beauty and treasure within all forms of feminine energy - from the strong forces of power, the softer essence of beauty and mercy to the mundane everyday woman.
All are equally worthy of being placed on the altar.
Choreographed by Yumi Umiumare
Goddesses are treated as treasures and placed on an altar. We observe plurality in female lives - they’re icons of power, but sometimes over protected or locked up.
Treasured Altar aims to recognise and celebrate the beauty and treasure within all forms of feminine energy - from the strong forces of power, the softer essence of beauty and mercy to the mundane everyday woman.
All are equally worthy of being placed on the altar.
Locker Room Project
Actor
Locker Room Project: Addressing violence against women
Audiences walk into The Locker Room a mobile 12m x 2.4m shipping container. They open a series of school lockers containing stimuli and provocations on the theme of violence against women. Following that they pass through into an audio visual arena where they listen to a gripping local survivor's story, look at a series of projected images, some created by her, and watch three hand drawn metaphoric stories about witnessing or being at the scene of family violence. To this we add a 30 minute performance of a play called SL-T, by award winning playwright, Patricia Cornelius. Workshops, Q and A’s and forums can be a part of the work as a way of speaking to and unpacking the content in your community.
SL_T by Patricia Cornelius: Is looking at gender inequities in society, particularly the early labelling and subsequent self-labelling of girls and young women, the way this erodes identity and the embedding of beliefs which lie in wait beneath the surface of both men and women. We enter a darker terrain, one that brings up the question of our complicity in perpetuating limiting perceptions of women.
Locker Room Project: Addressing violence against women
Audiences walk into The Locker Room a mobile 12m x 2.4m shipping container. They open a series of school lockers containing stimuli and provocations on the theme of violence against women. Following that they pass through into an audio visual arena where they listen to a gripping local survivor's story, look at a series of projected images, some created by her, and watch three hand drawn metaphoric stories about witnessing or being at the scene of family violence. To this we add a 30 minute performance of a play called SL-T, by award winning playwright, Patricia Cornelius. Workshops, Q and A’s and forums can be a part of the work as a way of speaking to and unpacking the content in your community.
SL_T by Patricia Cornelius: Is looking at gender inequities in society, particularly the early labelling and subsequent self-labelling of girls and young women, the way this erodes identity and the embedding of beliefs which lie in wait beneath the surface of both men and women. We enter a darker terrain, one that brings up the question of our complicity in perpetuating limiting perceptions of women.
Artist in Remote Schools Residency: Peppimenarti
Teaching Artist
Sophia spent five weeks in a remote Indigenous community as part of Corrugated Iron Youth Arts artist in remote schools residency program. In this time she worked with the students on an end of year concert utilising her skills in puppetry, dance, theatre, photography and stop start animation as well as liaising with local community artists to share knowledge and culture with the students.
Sophia spent five weeks in a remote Indigenous community as part of Corrugated Iron Youth Arts artist in remote schools residency program. In this time she worked with the students on an end of year concert utilising her skills in puppetry, dance, theatre, photography and stop start animation as well as liaising with local community artists to share knowledge and culture with the students.
