Future History began as a research project to investigate the influence of personal history and artistic lineage on the way we work and the art we make. From this a strategy for collaborative devising was developed and the raw material for this new solo was born. An award-winning team including, Australian artists Luke Smiles, Martin del Amo, Kristina Chan and Joshua Thomson along with international artists Rasmus Ölme and Vania Vaneau have contributed to this collaboratively devised work.
Weaving notions personal and universal, Future History reflects the precarious nature of the human body and the natural world. The work manifests the cyclic quality of global uncertainty throughout time in response to threat – conflict, epidemic, escalating climate events – and illuminates the vulnerability and resilience implicit in life on earth.
Although conceived and developed long before the spectre of COVID-19 entered the scene, this project and the conversations it provokes feels decidedly urgent when facing our current predicament as artists and a society.
A new ritual.
Melancholic resolution. Unresolved continuance. Grieving something we haven't yet lost. Losing something we only just have a sense of. An endless oscillation between hope and despair, fear and courage, past and future, life and death.
When: Friday, July 2, and Saturday, July 3, 2021, 7:30pm
Where: Australian Dance Theatre, The Odeon, 57a Queen St, Norwood
Cost: $30 + booking fees
Credits
Made by Gabrielle Nankivell in collaboration with Luke Smiles, Martin del Amo, Kristina Chan, Joshua Thomson, Rasmus Ölme and Vania Vaneau, with contributions by Harriet Oxley and Meg Wilson.
Supporters
The creative development of this work has been generously supported by:
The Government of South Australia Arts South Australia, Australian Dance Theatre’s International Centre for Choreography, The Mill’s Emerging Producer Xchange, Stockholm University of the Arts, Lieues Lyon and Legs on the Wall.
