Dance & Physical Theatre

Guild Fringe: Pictures & Ghosts

A contemplative dance performance that moves you from stark photographic memory to nostalgia.

  • Dates 09 - 12 Oct
  • Time 7:30pm (60 minutes)
  • Venues Guild Theatre
$35.00
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A woman wearing a green top and black skirt bent over to the left, photographed from behind. They are facing a white background.
A woman clothed in black top and skirt in the middle of a dance. The picture is black and white.
A woman in green top and black skirt bent from the waist, looking to the left. They are standing against a white background.

Image Credit: Trudi Treble

A woman wearing a green top and black skirt bent over to the left, photographed from behind. They are facing a white background.
A woman clothed in black top and skirt in the middle of a dance. The picture is black and white.
A woman in green top and black skirt bent from the waist, looking to the left. They are standing against a white background.

  • Performed by: Arabella Frahn-Starkie

  • Presented by: Union House Theatre

  • Lighting Design: Giovanna Yate Gonzalez

Pictures & Ghosts gathers the recollections and traces of a dance from a time gone by. Performer Arabella Frahn-Starkie draws upon the relationship between dance, and the means of documenting and archiving performance through video, photography, and notation.

The documentation floods across multiple screens creating silhouettes and visual obstructions, layering the use of analog and digital technology. Arabella’s marking, blurring and overwriting of the documentation, works to undercut the accuracy and solidity of the documentation, giving her tactile control of images of herself as she reasserts authorship over her visual reproduction.

In Pictures & Ghosts, Arabella invites audiences into her process of retracing a dance that may otherwise have sunk into her bodily memory, never to be seen again. The performance is a contemplation on the possibilities and pitfalls of archiving dance, and for Arabella, it is a reminder that no time spent dancing is inconsequential.

Credits:
Choreographer and Performer: Arabella Frahn-Starkie
Photographer: Trudi Treble
Director: Meg Duncan
Composer: Robert Downie
Lighting Designer: Giovanna Yate González
Video Documentation by Takeshi Kondo

This event is part of Guild Fringe: Dance Edit - a two-week festival celebrating dance and movement in all forms, held in and around the Guild Theatre, Arts and Cultural Building, University of Melbourne Parkville Campus. View the festival program here: https://umsu.unimelb.edu.au/express-yourself/theatre/whats-on/guildfringedancefestival/

About Union House Theatre

Union House Theatre is the hub of extracurricular theatre in University of Melbourne, Parkville campus. Through a range of high-quality student shows, guest performances, workshops and professional pathways, we give students a taste of the theatre industry. We prioritise making a space to learn, make friends, and have fun, while creating theatre.

umsu.unimelb.edu.au

  • Duration: 60 minutes

  • Event Accessibility: Deaf or Hard of Hearing Rating: Partially Accessible, English no barrier

  • Age suitability: PG

  • Event warnings: Haze Effects, Sustained Loud Noises.

  • Guild Theatre
    University of Melbourne, Level 2, Arts and Cultural Building (Building 159) Parkville, Victoria, 3010

    Wheelchair Access

    Guild Theatre is wheelchair accessible. We encourage audience to let us know in advance if they a wheelchair using audience member, or to arrive early and alert front of house staff. 

    Assistive Hearing

    Guild Theatre is hearing loop accessible. Please advise of access requirement when buying tickets.

    The venue is located within the University of Melbourne (Parkville Campus) grounds.
    It's a short walk from public transport on Swanston Street. Signage is minimal.
    Please see the 'How to get here' page on our website: https://umsu.unimelb.edu.au/express-yourself/theatre/our-work/findus/

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  • Full: $35.00

  • Hump Day Discount: $26.25

  • Concession: $20.00

  • Group 4+: $18.00

  • Extra Applause: $40.00

  • Blak Tix: $10.00

Sessions: In Person Events

A single $5.50 transaction fee applies to your booking.

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