Temperance Hall

18/11/2025

Thank you to all who joined us for the Australian premiere of Tremble by Liz Rosenfeld – a three hour immersive performance held in our Main Space on Friday October 24th as part of our TEMPER program.

Joining Liz were local and international artists and performers Amaara Raheem, Jennie Andro, Ellen Davies, Taichi Ishii, Tim Darbyshire and Leah Marojević. It was a great pleasure to host Liz in our Apartment Studio and share their practice with our community across October.

Our 2025 TEMPER program invited 3 choreographic artists/collaborations to develop and show new choreographic work at Temperance Hall, while in residence on-site in the Apartment Studio.

Bringing experimental, radical art/work/ideas/experiences/research/perspectives/practices/dances from farther afield to share with local audiences at Temperance Hall.

#1 Martin Hansen (Melbourne/Berlin): August
#2 Liz Rosenfeld (Berlin/London): October
#3 Juliet Widyasari Burnett (Gold Coast) and Ishvara Devati (Jakarta): November

TEMPER is supported by Creative Australia, the Australian Government's principal arts investment and advisory body.

17/11/2025

After a busy few months at the hall, its a delight to take a moment to look back at what has been – including at this documentation of Gabriella Imrichova's showing on Sunday 2nd of November.

For this public outcome, Gabriella shared what had emerged for them during their time on residence at Temperance Hall's Front Studio. Big thank you to Gabriella for sharing their practice at the hall, and to all who attended earlier this month.

Piloted in 2025, our Front Studio Residency Program offers 6 artists exclusive access to our Front Studio for a period of 2 months, culminating in a public outcome supported by an artist fee, technical support and professional documentation.

Grabriella Imrichova was our 5th artist in residence for 2025. The Front Studio Residency has been supported by the Neilson Foundation, the City of Port Phillip, the Palais Theatre Community Fund, private donors and the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.

Images by Jeff Busby

14/11/2025

The Drama!

CYVASA 2.0 night #2, with post-show Q+A facilitated by Brooke Stamp.

Created and performed by Juliet Widyasari Burnett and Ishvara Devati, in residence at Temperance Hall as our third and final TEMPER program for 2025.

Final show Saturday.

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Images by Jeff Busby.

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This project has been supported by Performance Space and Critical Path's Experimental Choreographic Residency; the Australian Government through @.australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body; and Temperance Hall.

13/11/2025

CYVASA 2.0 opens tonight, Friday and Saturday, 7:30pm.

Created and performed by Juliet Widyasari Burnett and Ishvara Devati, visiting Temperance Hall as our third and final TEMPER program for 2025.

📣📣 Brooke Stamp will host a post-show discussion with the artists following Friday's show.

Come for the exquisite movement, stay for the whole-body sonic submission to the sounds of Indonesian feminist noise duo Metatesis.

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Jeff Busby's beautiful shots from last night's dress run.

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This project has been supported by Performance Space and Critical Path's Experimental Choreographic Residency; the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body; and Temperance Hall.

10/11/2025

"CYVASA 2.0" by Juliet Widyasari Burnett & Ishvara Devati, with music from Metatesis – November 13/14/15, 7.30pm at Temperance Hall.

05/11/2025

TEMPER #3 CYVASA 2.0 premieres next Thursday 13 November at Temperance Hall.

CYVASA 2.0 is a collaborative performance work created and performed by Indonesian and diaspora dance artists Juliet Widyasari Burnett and Ishvara Devati, with a music score by Indonesian feminist noise duo Metatesis.

The trans and cis female bodies are dynamic, sacred entities from a speculative future; untethered from patriarchal history and vessels of new mythologies. The organic hardware of these bodies is a portal: continuously upgraded, reprogrammed and reincarnated.

In the world of CYVASA 2.0, ancient Javanese spirituality merges with techno-fantasy aesthetics and glitch distortion. Here, desire is not only sensual but evolutionary; a driving force that transforms the body’s architecture. The body is a liquid machine containing pulsating circuits of water, blood, sweat, hormones and ancestral data; secreting myths and birthing digital deities. New sacred rituals are built from uniquely female and q***r codes, burying the past. This is not a stage, but a temple, laboratory and server room, where mythologies are rewritten through the flux of flesh, machine and collective longing.

CONCEPT, CHOREOGRAPHY AND PERFORMANCE Juliet Widyasari Burnett & Ishvara Devati
MUSIC Metatesis (Dyah Isaka + Nadya Hatta)
SET Juliet Widyasari Burnett
PRODUCER Michaela Coventry

PERFORMANCE DATES
Thursday 13th November, 7.30pm
Friday 14th November, 7.30pm
Saturday 15th November, 7.30pm

LOCATION
Temperance Hall, Main Hall
199 Napier Street, South Melbourne

ACCESSIBILITY
Wheelchair accessible

TICKETS
$15 General Admission
$25 Pay a little more
Book here: https://events.humanitix.com/temper-3-juliet-widyasari-burnett-and-ishvara-devati-present-cyvasa-2-0

This project has been supported by Performance Space and Critical Path's Experimental Choreographic Residency; the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body; and Temperance Hall.

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TEMPER is a new program inviting 3 choreographic artists/collaborations to develop and show new choreographic work at Temperance Hall, while in residence on-site in the Apartment Studio.

TEMPER is supported by Creative Australia, the Australian Government's principal arts investment and advisory body.

Image Credit: Liz Ham

22/10/2025

Today is the inaugural AusArts Day!

AusArts Day is a new initiative by .australia to encourage private giving to the arts. Organisations from across the continent register as part of a coordinated push to focus donations, and foster a culture of private giving in support of arts organisations.

We forgot to register :-(

Notwithstanding, will you GiveNow to support our program delivery in 2026?

2025 was a landmark year for Temperance Hall’s reassembly. We have delivered a curated program of six Front Studio Residencies, and three Temper commissions for artists working from our new Apartment Studio Residency for visiting artists, and we have supported scores of independent artists with free and heavily subsidised rehearsal space.

Temperance Hall is a micro arts organisation with two part-time staff, and a hard-working volunteer board, and we offer an essential alternative dimensionality to the Australian dance/performance/arts scene.

Your support today will help us to deliver our residency program in 2026, which offers artists:
-Space, time, money, production support, documentation and a self-determined public outcome
-Complete artistic freedom
-A place, context and institutional tradition that promotes and defends diverse, boundary pushing experimental choreographic, dance and performance work.

And offers community and audiences:
-New work you won’t see anywhere else.

Many thanks in advance for your support!

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Image 4: .rosenfeld, by Akseli Muraja

21/10/2025

Expressions of Interest for Temperance Hall's 2026 Front Studio Residency close this Sunday 26 October at midnight.

We will be offering six artists studio residencies across 2026, providing exclusive access to our Front Studio, in addition to a stipend and photographic documentation of a public outcome.

The Front Studio is a 5x7m private studio space with polished wooden floors and optional tarkett. Artists will be given a key to the building, and offered exclusive, unrestricted access 7 days/week for 2 months.

The nature of the public outcome which is determined by the artist in consultation with Temperance Hall. This will serve as an occasion to share your research, and gather community.

We are seeking to support independent choreographic/ dance/ interdisciplinary/ experimental performance artists who will use the space to develop their practice. We encourage applications from First Nations, CALD, Deaf or Disabled, and LGBTQIA+ artists. We will favour artists with established professional practices (3+ years). Individuals and collectives can apply.

We anticipate many more worthy applicants than the six spaces available. Click here to apply: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf1VjCaZ6VSyZoRGqciqZQ9PAcHAFMHNAnXmT7M0cK9kk8Obw/viewform

Please contact [email protected] with any questions or access requests.

Image Credit: When it is finished by Deanne Butterworth – Front Studio Resident 2025, photographed by Jeff Busby

20/10/2025

We are excited to announce the local performers joining Liz Rosenfeld for the Australian Premiere of Tremble: Performers include, Amaara Raheem, Jennie Andro, Ellen Davies, Taichi Ishii, Tim Darbyshire and Leah Marojović.

Tremble is an immersive three hour performance, where audience are invited to roam, cruise around, come in and out, and tremble along with us if they are moved to do so.

Flutter. Shutter. Quiver. Throb. Vibrations oscillate between all the holes and all the folds. Exposed under full house lights, a lone body trembles with the architecture of an empty darkroom.

CREATED by Liz Rosenfeld
PERFORMERS Liz Rosenfeld, Amaara Raheem, Jennie Andro, Ellen Davies, Taichi Ishii, Tim Darbyshire and Leah Marojović
PERFORMANCE Friday 24th October 6-9pm, please note this is a durational work and audiences are free to come and go as they please
TICKETS by donation: https://events.humanitix.com/temper-2-liz-rosenfeld-presents-tremble

Image Credit Fenia Kotsopoulou

16/10/2025

On Sunday 2 November, Gabriella Imrichova will be sharing what has emerged for them during their time in residence at Temperance Hall.

Gabriella Imrichova works with the medium of live performance across theatre, visual arts, and dance. A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts with a BFA in Theatre (2019), their work has been recently presented at Dancehouse, Performance Space (Sydney), Temperance Hall, and Gertrude Contemporary for Contact High, with residencies at Bundanon and the ATLAS scholarship at ImPulsTanz (Vienna).

DATE & TIME
Sunday 2nd November, 5pm

LOCATION
Temperance Hall, Main Hall
199 Napier Street, South Melbourne

TICKETS
Free, please register to attend here: https://events.humanitix.com/front-studio-resident-showing-garbriella-imrichova

Gabriella Imrichova is a Temperance Hall Front Studio Resident for 2025.

The Front Studio Residency has been supported by the Neilson Foundation, the City of Port Phillip, the Palais Theatre Community Fund, private donors and the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.

Image courtesy of the artist

16/10/2025

14/10/2025

If you are hoping to catch .rosenfeld while they are in Melbourne/Narrm, here is your schedule.

Wednesday 15 October, 6pm
Q***R PUBLICATIONS: APHIDs x Temperance Hall
Launch of João Florêncio and Liz Rosenfeld’s Crossings: Creative Ecologies of Cruising
Q&A with Berlin based artist Liz Rosenfeld facilitated by Frances Barrett
Location: Collingwood Yards Level 2 Perry St Building, studios 6, 7 & 8:
Tickets: Free, RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScafkDjmRxUgt2GBlptcGW5PSjzA9uIXbdm3KuDpn7YUS0PzQ/viewform

Friday 17 October, 7.30pm
I LIVE IN A HOUSE WITH A DOOR
A performance work exploring the material of flesh through a narrative of cruising, erotic potential, environmental futures and discursive time.
Created and performed by: Liz Rosenfeld
Friday's performance is followed by a Q&A with the artist facilitated by Brooke Stamp
Location: Temperance Hall, 199 Napier St South Melbourne
Tickets: $20-$25, via this link: https://events.humanitix.com/temper-2-liz-rosenfeld-presents-i-live-in-a-house-with-a-door

Friday 24 October, 6-9pm
TREMBLE
Flutter. Shutter. Quiver. Throb. Vibrations oscillate between all the holes and all the folds. Exposed under full house lights, a lone body trembles with the architecture of an empty darkroom.
Tremble is an immersive three hour performance, where audience are invited to roam, cruise around, come in and out, and tremble along with us if they are moved to do so.
Created and Performed by: Liz Rosenfeld and Narrm/Melbourne based performers to be announced
Location: Temperance Hall, 199 Napier St South Melbourne
Tickets: by donation: https://events.humanitix.com/temper-2-liz-rosenfeld-presents-tremble

Liz Bio

Liz Rosenfeld is a Berlin/ London based interdisciplinary artist and educator who works with performance,moving images, drawing and experimental writing practices. Liz addresses the sustainability of emotional and political ecologies, cruising methodologies, past and future histories in regard to the ways in which memory is q***red. Liz's work deals with flesh as a non-binary collaborative material, specifically focussing on the potentiality of physical abundance and excess, edging questions regarding the responsibility and privilege of taking up space. Embracing an auto- theoretical style, Liz's writing is rooted in questions that contend with how q***r ontologies are grounded in variant hypocritical desire(s.)

Image credit I live in a house with a door: Akseli Muraja
Image credit Tremble: Fenia Kotsopoula
Image credit Artist Headshot: Chirsta Holka