Folding performance notes
Forest Collective presents
Folding
Friday 18 Oct 7:30pm
Eleventh Hour Theatre, Fitzroy
Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country
Program
Échos – Jacques Hotteterre
Suite No. 1 - Michel de La Barre
Conversation I (improvisation)
The present makes relevant the past – Evan J Lawson (world premiere)
Conversation II - Musette - (improvisation)
Suite op.1, no.5 – Pierre-Danican Philidor
Artists
Kim Tan Traverso flute, performer and curator
Meredith Beardmore Traverso flute
Rosanne Hunt Cello
Evan J Lawson Artistic director, composer
Ashley Dougan Dance and choreography
Jane Noonan Costume Design
Event Partners
Eleventh Hour Theatre and 3MBS Fine Music Melbourne
Forest Collective acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we live, meet, create, and perform this performance, Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country. We pay our respects to their Elders, past and present, and extend our respects to all Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders, past and present. We recognise and respect their cultural heritage, beliefs, and relationship with the land. We recognise Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first inhabitants of this nation.
A message from curator and performer, Kim Tan
“It is not the emanation of an ‘I’, but never the other who is a double in the doubling process, it is a self that lives me as the double of the other: I do not encounter myself on the outside, I find the other in me.” - Gilles Deleuze
This performance is folded in many ways. It has layers, each layer an experience, a memory, an influence, an invention, a whim. It is folding-in and folding-out, consuming, ingesting, responding, expressing, and sharing. It is a fold among folds.
Folding has two threads of ideas that intertwine throughout the evening. One thread explores the integral mutual interplay between music and movement, the feeling of sound in the body, hearing the flight of gestures. The other thread is a conversation about being creative and the creative process, musings on the dialectic between past and present, fluidity and stasis, and deviation around what cannot change.
The program opens with Jacques Martin Hotteterre’s Echos; a call to attention and an invitation to follow. Pairing the old with the new, the Baroque suites by Michel de La Barre and Pierre-Danican Philidor are reimagined in contemporary dance. At the centre, Evan Lawson’s The present makes relevant the past transports the traverso, giving it a voice in contemporary expression through new music. These are interspersed with migratory improvisations that traverse the space between.
Thanks:
Special thanks to the Forest Collective artists and guest artists Evan, Ash, Meredith, Rosy, Jane, and Gabe.
The Forest fam
Eleventh Hour for the use of space, 3MBS for archival recording
Joel for love and support
- Kim Tan
