All the nonsense, all the love, all the relativities

In an ever evolving, ever shifting duet, ‘All the nonsense, all the love, all the relativities’, is a dance work which gives embodied expression to the negotiation that exists in the coming together of two people. The work considers the complexities of finding shared ways of relating in the context of our own layered histories and personal narratives.

Created by Alexandra Ford and Saskia Ellis as a first stage development, ‘All the nonsense, all the love, all the relativities’, engages dance and movement to personify the perpetual exchange of literal and emotional languages through their physiologies.

Saturday 25th March

7pm

Catapult studio (880 Hunter Street, Newcastle West)

Image by Ashley de Prazer

⁠PROPEL FOSTERS EXPERIMENTATION, AND ARTISTIC INTERCHANGE, CREATING A PLATFORM FOR ARTISTS TO DEVELOP NEW WORK

Alexandra Ford: Originally from Newcastle, Alexandra is an independent contemporary dance artist currently working with Catapult Dance Choreographic Hub. After graduating from the New Zealand School of Dance in 2013, Alexandra has danced professionally with many international companies, including Footnote New Zealand Dance, Danses en l’R, and Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company.

Upon moving back to Australia in 2018, Alexandra joined Catapult Dance Choreographic Hub as a member of the company, and has since worked alongside many national and international choreographers, including Cadi McCarthy, Craig Bary, Jasmin Sheppard, Omer Backley-Astrachan, Adam Blanch, Rachel Erdos and Israel Aloni, in addition to gaining choreographic residencies with Catapult Dance Choreographic Hub and Critical Path.

Saskia Ellis: Saskia is a queer, neurodiverse performance artist and choreographer, currently based on Gadigal Land. Their practice presently inquires of illimitable orthogonality and⁠ curvilinear time in poetic physiological encapsulations. Saskia pertains a multidisciplinary approach to accessibility and intersectionality through inquisitive emulations of language, movement, improvisation, installation, and theoretical⁠ embodiment.⁠

Saskia’s most recent choreographic works include “flesh concealing scaffolds of dreams” in uNCOILEd eXposed 2022, and “Spoons” via The Flying Nun by BrandX, for Sydney World Pride.⁠ Saskia graduated Sydney Dance Company’s Pre Professional Year in 2021, and has since performed, collaborated, and choreographed works amongst Museum of Contemporary Art, Carriageworks, Riverside Theatres, IPAC, BrandX, ReadyMade,⁠ March Dance, MerrigongX, and in movement, film and tangibility.

There will be a showing of the work at Catapult (880 Hunter street, Newcastle West) on Saturday 25th March at 7pm

Choreographed/performed by Alexandra Ford & Saskia Ellis.

Propel Choreographic Residency Series 2023

Alexandra Ford and Saskia Ellis have been developing a stage 1 choreographic process. Come to the studio and see artists at work, see the seeds of this development and hear about the artists process through the Q and A.