Performance/ Showing
Frankie NO.1 is the first iteration in a series on grief and the body. Frankie NO.1 thinks of choreography as speculation, an open question.
Like feeling the texture of something through a glove Frankie NO.1 frames the body as the imperfect and troubled mediator of emotion. Hansen acts as a conduit for a tentative offering, an unfolding of figures and fragments of dance, utterance, affect and tune.
Looking as grief as taboo and as monstrous, Frankie NO.1 emerges in the body of the dancer, before etching a story of monstrous grief from the world of Romantic literature toward today. Reasmbling a Frankenstein lecture performance, an assemblage of effected parts is sewn together through association, through digression. Frankie NO.1 uses performance to search for a moment that is porous and leaky, where meaning can be complicated, unfinished, frayed, a conduit performance in hope of transgressions which may spill forth, come to, and awaken, again.
CHOREOGRAPHY & PERFORMANCE by Martin Hansen
SOUND by James Rushford
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PERFORMANE DATES
Wednesday 20th, Thursday 21st, Friday 7pm
LOCATION
Temperance Hall, Main Hall
199 Napier Street, South Melbourne .
ACCESSIBILITY
Wheelchair accessible
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Martin Hansen is a Temperance Hall TEMPER Artist for 2025.
Martin Hansen is a choreographer and artist working primarily in theatre and gallery contexts. Throughout their body of work, they have sought to unfold temporalities, queer and otherwise around the body, dance and the economies of the theatre. In their practice, archives in the form of photography, film, video and GIF collections are used to critically explore memory and time, with ghosts recurring as generative figures upon which works are built. Since 2015, Martin’s solos and group works have been presented at venues such as Tanzfabrik, Sophiensaele, Radialsystem and Bärenzwinger (Berlin), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Rencontre Chorégraphique Internationales De Seine Saint Denis (Paris), Charleroi Danse and KANAL Centre Pompidou (Brussels), Hong Kong Arts Festival (Hong Kong), Dance Massive, Dancehouse, Frame Biennial (Melbourne), Aerowaves (Aarhus), and Carriageworks (Sydney). Martin has performed internationally for Sergui Matis, Tino Sehgal, Ligia Lewis, Christoph Winkler, Laurie Young, Chunky Move and Not Yet Its Difficult and in Australia for Sarah Aiken, Chunkymove and Not Yet It’s Difficult.
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.
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.
Temperance Hall's activities in 2025 are 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.