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 queer 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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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

30/09/2025

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. The video component of this work was shot during the COVID-19 lockdown, in the shutdown darkroom of one of Berlin’s oldest gay cruising bars. Through tableaus of nuanced movement, the artist's body proposes an ambiguous future towards abundance and desire. Skin and flesh palpitate with unknown anticipation against porous materials soaked with stale fluids, ghostly utterances, and queer potentials. This is not a memorial to what was once possible, but rather, a proposal to what this space can still become. Always an infinite hole. Always a threshold. The vibrant material of fat and flesh rock in service to ecologies and bodies not yet known.

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
Liz is calling for performers for this work – express your interest before Sunday 5 October: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeXEFvzxIgC0iyEfyiR5xlorTzwFG0BqOXPjtfPcR0rS9g-Ew/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=114048670017417178534

PERFORMANCE DATE
Friday 24th October 6-9pm

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

CONTENT WARNING
Nudity, sexual content

ACCESSIBILITY
Wheelchair accessible

TICKETS
Ticket by donation: https://events.humanitix.com/temper-2-liz-rosenfeld-presents-tremble

Liz Rosenfeld is a Temperance Hall TEMPER Artist for 2025

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

Photo by Fenia Kotsopoulou

23/09/2025

After a tremendous inaugural program in 2025, the Temperance Hall Front Studio Residency is returning in 2026.

Across the calendar year, Temperance Hall is pleased to offer six 2-month studio residencies in our newly refurbished Front Studio.

Thanks to generous seed funding from private supporters of Temperance Hall, as well as support from the City of Port Phillip, we will be offering six choreographic artists studio residencies across 2026, providing exclusive access to our Front Studio, in addition to a minimum* $2K stipend and photography documentation.

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 residency will culminate in a public outcome self-determined by the artist in consultation with Temperance Hall. This will serve as an occasion to share your research, and gather community at Temperance Hall.

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. Individuals and collectives can apply.

EOIs OPEN Tuesday 22 September
EOIs CLOSE Sunday 26 October, midnight
OUTCOMES mid-late November

We anticipate many more worthy applicants than the six spaces available.

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

Submit your EOI: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf1VjCaZ6VSyZoRGqciqZQ9PAcHAFMHNAnXmT7M0cK9kk8Obw/viewformhttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf1VjCaZ6VSyZoRGqciqZQ9PAcHAFMHNAnXmT7M0cK9kk8Obw/viewform

23/09/2025

TEMPER #2: Liz Rosenfeld presents I live in a house with a door

"I live in a house with a door" is a performance work exploring the material of flesh through a narrative of cruising, erotic potential, environmental futures and discursive time.

Rosenfeld explores their flesh as a collaborative material moving in its own time and space. Through dancing with breath and flesh, Rosenfeld culminates this experience with a science-fiction text, where they implicate themself in an erotic cruising scene with an invisible gas called the Shimmer. The Shimmer effects both the physicality and emotionality of their relationship to flesh as material, while also implicating bodies of flesh in questions of climate change, natural disasters, and queer sexuality. Through this work, Rosenfeld arrives at the realisation of their non-binary identity through the materiality of their body, rather than through the marker of her gender. In a resistant relationship to metaphor, Rosenfeld collaborates and experiments with their own flesh and the possibilities it presents within its own autonomy and rhythm. In this dialogue with matter, they pose questions of assumption and responsibility regarding environmental shifts, while also offering a body of excess, their own flesh, as an alternative energy source for a future. The title for this work references the text, Time is a thing a body moves through by T Fleischmann.

CREATED & PERFORMED BY Liz Rosenfeld
With an excerpt from the short film " What's at the Bottom?" by Liz rosenfeld, featuring the voice of Jón Albert Méndez

PERFORMANCE DATE
Friday 17 Oct, 7.30pm

TICKETS
$25 Full
$20 Conc

Book here: https://events.humanitix.com/temper-2-liz-rosenfeld-presents-i-live-in-a-house-with-a-door

Image credit Akseli Muraja
rosenfeld