WORK IN PROGRESS SHOWING Temperance Hall Front Studio Resident Amaara Raheem presents a new work-in-progress, After Agatha.After Agatha is a work-in-progress sharing by Front Studio Resident Amaara Raheem, made in collaboration with contemporary dance duo gemma+molly (Gemma Sattler and Molly McKenzie).Part lecture, part ritual, part spell, all Dance, the work channels the Sick Witch — who emerged from Amaara’s …
help grown temperance hal About this cause Temperance Hall is an artist-run home for independent dance and expanded performance practice. In 2025, we framed our work as a year of Reassembly, stabalising a new model for our beautiful heritage building and community of artists and peers. With the support of private donors, the Neilson Foundation, the City of Port …
WORK IN PROGRESS SHOWING Temperance Hall Front Studio Resident Oliver Savariego presents a new solo work-in-progress, Slapdash.Slapdash is a choreographic collage of stolen materials, and a personal processing of influence and context. The work rips, crumples, cuts, shoves, layers and smashes together movement materials sourced from Oliver’s experiences and inspirations in dance. Leaning into inherent tensions in appropriative practices, …
APARTMENT STUDIO RESIDENT – PerformancE BOOK HERE Luck! interrogates the choreography of nationalism through a perverted study of folkloric dance, song and ritual process. A solo in the pit of crisis and transformation, Luck! performs a guttural dissection on the body of the nation-state. With hyperphysical rigour, the work appropriates gestures of regimentation and violence, only to render them flaccid …
WORK IN PROGRESS SHOWING REGISTER HERE “I will not make another sequel to The Crying Room. I will not make another sequel to The Crying Room. I will not make another sequel to The Crying Room”Marcus is not making another sequel to The Crying Room.Marcus has been living out of a suitcase for six months, but luckily he has had this …
WORK IN PROGRESS SHOWING REGISTER HERE In The Other Room is a work-in-progress, a solo dance that emerged from the Front Studio Residency. The work moves through shifts of attention, where sensation, fragments of thought, and voice interrupt or redirect the body. Passing through physical, internal, and perceptual rooms. Fleur is an Australian dancer, performing artist and choreographer. Her knowledge of …
APARTMENT STUDIO RESIDENCY SHOWING REGISTER HERE In the pandemic, artists Marcus Bergner and Myriam Van Imschoot created a poem of rapidly spoken words, Urge, accelerating intensity and interlocking energies into a dazzling message in which the void coiled. Now they revisit this work to insert and annotate it with other registers and gifts, drunken on words, sliding frequencies, tinkering gaps …
WORK IN PROGRESS SHOWING REGISTER HERE Please join as at Temperance Hall for an informal open rehearsal and work-in-progress showing of CONSEQUENCE, a new work in development by Sandra Parker. This development of CONSEQUENCE has been focusing on notions of loss, deterioration and disintegration. The showing will centre on choreographic strategies that locate the physical effects of accelerated growth, progress, …
WORK IN PROGRESS SHOWING REGISTER HERE 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 …
PERFORMANCE BOOK HERECYVASA 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: …