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Out of Bounds 2024: Meet the Artists! ⚡️ Out of Bounds is an exciting choreographic ideas sharing platform presented by Lucy Guerin Inc and Temperance Hall. This April, 36 independent Victorian dance artists will develop and present a short showing of their recent choreographic investigations to local audiences and fellow artists at WXYZ Studios. The initiative also provides participants with the opportunity to receive creative feedback about their work, with post-showing discussions facilitated by experienced Victorian dance practitioners. Congratulations to the artists joining the Out of Bounds 2024 program: Aimee Schollum, Alec Katsourakis, Amélie Logan & Jake Ware, Arabella Frahn-Starkie & Oliver Cox & Samuel Kreusler, Callum Mooney, Chiharu Valentino, Chung Nguyen & Gav Barbey, Daniel R Marks, Ebony Olsen & Alyse Canton, Gabriel Sinclair & Jazmyn Carter, Gabriella Imrichova, Gemma Sattler, Jack Birdseye & Anjelica Menta, Jackie Sheppard, Karlia Cook & Danni Cook, Manjusha Manjusha, Naavikaran, Nadiyah Akbar, Raina Peterson & Marco Cher-Gibard, Rebecca Jensen, Ren Milera & Yianna Dorward & Enzo Nazario, Ronan Armstrong, Siobhan McKenna & Tra Mi Dinh, Walt Isaacson. 🌟Out of Bounds 2024 will be held Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 April, WXYZ Studios. 🖱Registrations to attend the event will open soon! ♾️Find out more about the artists at the link in bio. Images: Supplied. [Image ID: A moving gif showing headshots and performance photographs of a diverse group of dance artists, in both colour and black and white.]

In case you missed it... here's a snapshot of our recent program captured by @_nonstudio. @midsummafestival at Temperance Hall Odd to be beings, by =w= Slow City Moving, Mitch Spadaro Sybylla, Rachael Wisby AMPLIFY, Valentina Emerald big foot pink eye, Mara Galagher Sexual Violence, Alexander Powers Immense gratitude to those who made this season possible, The City of Port Phillip, The Palais Theatre Community Fund, Custom Fleet, and the Nielson Foundation. Thanks to @heapsnormal for keeping us refreshed. Most importantly, thanks to the artists for their brilliance. @female_wizard @rachaelwisby @wwwendyfeng @mitch_spadaro @maragalagher @val.emerald

“ …a poetic musing on the uniqueness of life, Taoist cosmogony, Confucian humanistic philosophy, while deep diving among the cultural planktons of celebrity obsession (Lu Xianren, Balenciaga, etc.)” Temperance Hall’s 2023 @melbfringe program kicks off with a new dance work by choreographer-auteur @shian_law. Known for their audacious, rule-bending and badass attitude to art making, this work titled ‘《一》’ is a stylish rendering of the artist’s autobiography and burning passion for calligraphy. 11 – 14 Oct, 6:30pm, Temperance Hall- Upstairs Studio Tickets available here: https://melbournefringe.com.au/event/《一》by-shian-law/ Catch ‘《一》’ by Shian Law and ‘Dunes Rolling Down Dunes’ by Benjamin Hurley in the same night and receive a 30% discount. Use the code HOTSTUFF at checkout. Photo credits: Peter Rosetzky #melbournefringefestival #contemporarydance #experimental #temperancehall #southmelbourne

An excerpt from the documentary AVES- a deeply moving and personal insight into the story and artistic ponderings behind the solo by José Navas/Compagnie Flak. In the second week of our Melbourne Fringe program, we excitedly and warmly welcome AVES into the Hall- a work that celebrates the importance of love and art by internationally renowned, Bessie award-winning Montreal-based artist, José Navas. 19 – 21 Oct, 7pm , Temperance Hall- Main Hall Tickets available via the Melbourne Fringe website: https://melbournefringe.com.au/event/aves/ Check out the full 20-minute micro-documentary here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0XN5nlh2p0 #melbournefringefestival #contemporarydance #temperancehall #southmelbourne

... A boot. A feather. A relic... A bag full of useless stuff. In the first week of our @melbfringe program, Temperance Hall presents ‘Dunes Rolling Down Dunes’, a new experimental dance work by Benjamin Hurley. ‘Dunes Rolling Down Dunes’ spirals deeply into the meeting point of a conjured mythology. Stuck in a relentless state of dissolving choreography and purpose, performers swoop through their embodied and imagined histories like Icarus falling from the sun... Time vacuumed into a blurry visioned vortex, pulsing in other worldly priestess tempos. Two musicians sync in and out of rhythm, as they weave together sound scores from symbolic narratives. An eerie vocalisation captured within a textural world that continuously folds in on itself. Created by: Benjamin Hurley Performed by: Benjamin Hurley and Arabella Frahn-Starkie Composers: Robert Downie and Oliver Cox Set Design: Matthew Bird and Jason Crow Costume Design: Geoffrey Watson 11 – 14 Oct, 8pm , Temperance Hall- Main Hall Tickets available here: https://melbournefringe.com.au/event/dunes-rolling-down-dunes/ Or via link in bio. Catch ‘Dunes Rolling Down Dunes’ by Benjamin Hurley and '《一》’ by Shian Law and receive a 30% discount. Use the code HOTSTUFF at checkout. #melbournefringefestival #contemporarydance #expeimental #temperancehall #southmelbourne

Today is your last day to Donate, for Temperance Hall's Sake. Over the past week, you've heard first-hand from our artistic community on their relationship to Phillip Adams BalletLab and Temperance Hall in dialogue with the broader arts sector. The artists' testaments highlight Temperance Hall as a space for artistic agency, choreographic rigour, queer-ing of the form, and countless creative opportunities. That's why this End of Financial year, we are asking you to Donate, for Artists' Sake. In boldly centring LGBTQIA+ experiences, we are a first-of-its-kind flagship cultural organisation in the history of Australian dance and performing arts. We campion queer radicalism, artistic non-compliance, and artform reinvention. And we couldn't keep doing it without your support. Donate for Temperance Hall's Sake: https://www.givenow.com.au/donatetemperancehall

Only a few days left until the End of Financial Year, and we are asking our supporters to Donate, for Temperance Hall's Sake. Geoffrey Watson is a Melbourne-based artist, whose work is rooted in choreography and has branches in wearable design, text, sculpture and photography. Geoffrey is a long-term friend of Temperance Hall having previously worked as a dancer and wardrobe consultant for Phillip Adams. This year, Geoffrey performed at Temperance Hall with choreographer Nana Bilus Abaffy in her work 'A Bestiary of Unimaginable Animals' for FRAME: A biennial of dance. As Geoffrey says, Temperance Hall provides a space for "...exploratory, experimentation driven, human-driven, failure driven..." dance. We push hard into these areas so that this kind of work continues to be platformed, and remains a part of the broader dance landscape. We can't keep doing this without your support. Your donations, however small or large, will directly contribute to Australia's experimental dance landscape. Please Donate, for Dance's Sake: https://www.givenow.com.au/donatetemperancehall

There are only a few days left until the End of Financial Year, and we are asking our supporters to Donate, for Temperance Hall's Sake. Marco Cher-Gibard is an artist working with sound to explore contemporary culture, expression and experience. His solo and collaborative performances have explored live sampling and electronics, home made software and most recently prepared guitar and objects. In 2022, Marco performed at Temperance Hall with choreographer Raina Peterson for their award winning Melbourne Fringe work, 'Narasimha - ManLion'. He was recently awarded a Green Room Award for composition in Lilian Steiner's Siren Dance, presented at Dancehouse in 2022. Temperance Hall provides a space for artistic experiementation and freedom of expression. Our programs platform work that sits at the fringes of contemporary culture, and the broader dance landscape. But we can't keep doing what we do without your support. Your donations, however small or large, will directly contribute to artists, enabling them to continue developing and presenting work that transforms the art of today. Please Donate, for Artists' Sake: https://www.givenow.com.au/donatetemperancehall

This End of Financial Year, will you Donate for Choregraphy's Sake? Nana Biluš Abaffy is an artist with a background in philosophy and a foreground in experimental performance and choreography. She is interested in the pursuit of knowledge through embodiment and wants to know what her body is looking for. Nana's relationship with Temperance Hall dates back to 2018 when she presented 'One Hundred and Four' as part of the Festival of Live Art. This year, Temperance Hall commissioned Nana to develop and present an experimental and choreographic visual work 'A Bestiary of Unimaginable Animals', for FRAME: A biennial of dance. At Temperance Hall, we recognise bravery in choreographic practice and provide support for artists like Nana to pursue these ideas wholeheartedly. Your donations this End of Financial Year will allow us to continue to platform choreography that sits at the fringe of the broader dance landscape. Please Donate, for Artists' Sake. Any amount helps: https://www.givenow.com.au/donatetemperancehall

This End of Financial Year, will you Donate for Temperance Hall's Sake? Benjamin Hurley is a queer independent dancer, choreographer and teacher based in Naarm. They have performed in three major BalletLab works including, Ever 2017, Glory 2019, and Triptych 2023. From 2020-21, they were a part of Temperance Hall's Exquisite Corps Cohort, where they commenced the seeds of development for ‘UpAndUpAndUpAndUp’, a solo work presented as part of Temperance Hall's Triple Bill Program, 2022. Your donations this End of Financial Year will, will allow Temperance Hall to continue supporting the independent sector through ongoing employment, development and presentation opportunities. Please Donate, for Artists' Sake. Any amount helps: https://www.givenow.com.au/donatetemperancehall

Will you Donate for Artists' Sake, this End of Financial Year? "Temperance Hall has been an important space for my development as an artist and choreographer. My relationship with the hall has meant that my artistic practice can have the flexibility to shift and change as it demands. Having a space that I can go to simply be in a working space, researching choreographically and engaging in experimentation has meant that my creative life remains unstifled by the structural demands arts workers are so afflicted by. The hall itself is special, it’s architecture (physical and the space created by administrators who are themselves artists) is such that it allows anything to unfold inside of it. The space created accepts the reality of creativity, that it is unpredictable and that given room it will grow to fill the space allowed for it." – Rachael Wisby, Temperance Hall Resident Artist Donate, for Temperance Hall's Sake. Link in Bio.

Donate for Artists' Sake. Hamish McIntosh is an artist and researcher living and working on Wurundjeri Country. Born in Aotearoa New Zealand, Hamish has recently completed his PhD in dance at the University of Melbourne, researching queer theory, ontology and death. In 2022, Temperance Hall supported Hamish's exhibition 'They Spent Their Youths Dreaming of Ever New', the creative component of his PhD, 'To an End: Death as a Queer Theory of Dance'. Hamish also presented durational performance-installation, 'Like a Knife, the Horizon' for Midsumma Festival at Temperance Hall. The work saw four dancers attempt a five-hour marathon, connecting fatigue and obliteration to questions around queer experiences and embodiments. Temperance Hall is commited to supporting artistic non-compliance and artform reinvention. Your donations this End of Financial Year will help support this vision. Donate, for Tempearnce Hall's Sake. https://www.givenow.com.au/donatetemperancehall

Donate, for Artists' Sake. Harrison Hall's work situates contemporary dance in experiential art environments. For Temperance Hall's Midsumma Festival 2020, @infernaulfaun presented 'The Venusian Slip', which exposed states of flux within present day masculinities, inverting dominant perspectives. Harrison also performed 'Triptych', Phillip Adams' new contemporary dance work which premiered in this year at Phoenix Central Park in association with Sydney WorldPride, and at Temperance Hall for FRAME: A biennial of dance. Temperance Hall is an artist-led space., where artistic agency and freedom of expression is prioritised. Your Donations this End of Financial Year will continue to support Temperance Hall's comunity of aritsts. Donate for Temperance Hall's Sake. Donate for Artists' Sake. https://www.givenow.com.au/donatetemperancehall

Donate, for Artists' Sake. Phillip and Ryan premiered their collaborative performance work SICK at Temperance Hall's 2022 Midsumma Festival. For Ryan, a person with autism, ‘sick’ implies an impulse to act out of the ordinary with his body and thoughts; to arrange things the way he feels and sees them. "SICK is an absurd, crazy and nonsensical exploration that challenges our perception of “normal” and highlights that all human beings are a conflation of weird and wacky and confronts us with the weirdness of what it is to be human." - Brendan Daynes, Dance Life Your donations this End of Financial Year will directly enable artists to freely develop and present their artistic ideas at Temperance Hall. This End of Financial Year, Donate, for Artists' Sake. https://www.givenow.com.au/donatetemperancehall

Lucy Guerin Inc and Temperance Hall are thrilled to announce the following artists joining the Out of Bounds 2023 program: Alex Dobson, Alexander Powers, Alec Katsourakis, Bek Coates, Carmen Yih, Chiharu Valentino, Enzo Nazario, Erin O'Rourke & Georgia Rudd, Giovanna Yate Gonzalez, Iris Elgar, Jiawen Feng, Karlia Cook, Loxy (Lachlan Purcell), Mara Galager, Mitch Spadaro, Mitchell Aldridge, Opal Russell, Paul Jay, Sarah Saxon, Shian Law, Valentina Emerald, Vourneen Ni'Cainin, Yuiko Masukawa, Zoë Bastin. Find out more about the program and participating artists: https://www.temperancehall.com.au/events/out-of-bounds-expressions-of-interest-august-2023-showcase/ Out of Bounds is co-presented by Lucy Guerin Inc and Temperance Hall Saturday August 12 & Sunday August 13 Temperance Hall 199 Napier St South Melbourne Free! Registrations opening July 2023

Donate, for Temperance Hall's Sake. Donate, for Artists' Sake. Raina Peterson creates moving, experimental dance works that respect and challenge both traditional and contemporary dance. Drawing on their training in mohiniyattam, classical Indian dance of Kerala, Raina is critically acclaimed for their subversive and visceral approach to exploring the diasporic experience, cultural identity, colonialism, gender diversity and sexuality. In 2022, Raina was a panelist for EXPRESSION OF INTEREST - QUEER GESTURES: Where is the queer body in dance, now? curated by Luke George for Midsumma Festival at Temperance Hall. Temperance Hall also presented Raina's debut solo work, 'Narasimha - ManLion' for Melbourne Fringe Festival, for which they were awarded the Melbourne Fringe Award for Best Dance. This End of Financial Year, can you Donate for Artists' Sake? https://www.givenow.com.au/donatetemperancehall

Donate for Temperance Hall's Sake. Temperance Hall's Artistic Associate, Luke George, has made a vital contribution to our artistic programming and operations since he stepped into the inaugral position in 2020. Luke's CARE TACTICS program is an artist-centred series of gatherings, discussions, workshops, screenings, creative developments, performances and celebrations. CARE TACTICS projects such as COURTESY OF THE ARTIST, QUEER GESTURES, and ALIENS OF EXTRAORDINARY ABILITY are focused on the act of gathering, particularly in a time when our communities and arts sector need healing, and on care as a radical strategy, to build social capital, to survive, sustain and transform. Your donations this End of Financial Year will directly contribute towards Temperance Hall's artistic program. Can you donate for the sake of the last CARE TACTICS event you attended at Temperance Hall? Donate for Temperance Hall's Sake: https://www.givenow.com.au/donatetemperancehall

Donate for Temperance Hall's Sake. Phillip Adams reflects on his 25 year career as Artistic Director of BalletLab, and the establishment of experimental performing arts venue, Temperance Hall. Your donations this End of Financial Year will directly support our creative community through employment, commissions, festival programs, residencies, exhibitions and professional development programs, providing opportunities to hundreds of artists each year. Any amount helps. Donate today: https://www.givenow.com.au/donatetemperancehall