Thursday, August 1, 2019

Platform Paper No 60

Celebrated choreographer Sue Healey writes about her survival as an independent dance-maker.  She describes the relative wealth of Australian contemporary dance in the 1980s through to the shrinkage of funding and opportunities today.

'Through film I found new frameworks to create dance: short and feature-length films, multi-screen installations; and to show my work in different places: galleries, public art-screens, on TV and in cinemas, and in many countries,' says Healey.

'Film opened up new audiences and with the explosion of visual technology - if not of dance investment - also unimaginable new contexts for my work.'

LAUNCH: Capturing the Vanishing: A Choreographer and film
with Sue Healey, followed by a forum with choreographers and academics 
led by film curator Erin Brannigan

6 pm for 6:30 pm, Tuesday 20 August 2019

Studio 1, E8 Theatres
University of NSW
Gate 2, High Street, Kensington, Sydney

RSVPs to Lucy at info@currencyhouse.org.au 
or 02 9319 4953

Platform Paper No 60 is available on media request.  Purchase at www.currencyhouse.org.au 

Media enquiries to Martin Portus at mportus@optusnet.com.au or 0401 360 806

Posted by Frank McKone
August 1, 2019