Dance & Physical Theatre

Ode to Being

At what moment do strokes compose a painting, pixels assemble a picture and cells make up a person?

Dates 12 - 14 Oct
Time 6:15pm, 12:00pm (60 minutes)
Venue Abbotsford Convent - Industrial School

$28.00

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A panel of glass with multiple cracks, each crack reflecting a different image, some clear some blurred. Below are some major and identifiable image and their location in relation to the glass: the central crack, reflects a black haired person with white outfit kneeling with drooped head and purple side light; the top left corner, a back-lit hand reaching towards shadows of branches and leaves; middle left crack, a person with white top, spiralling their body and dancing; the middle right, a person with white top sitting and playing Pipa - a guitar-like traditional Chinese instrument with four strings and a pear-shaped body. The rest of this whole image may be too blur to identify content but consists a dark-toned colourful palette.

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Dance & Physical Theatre

Image Credit: Urban Artistry, Gregory Lorenzutti, =w=(Jiawen Feng)

Created and Performed by: Jiawen Feng

‘Ode to Being 存在颂歌’ is a contemporary dance work featuring installations, a palette of projections and colours and snippets of live music played from the traditional Chinese instrument Pipa.

You are invited to a ritualistic journey of an autobiographical, thoughts-provoking story by Jiawen(Wendy) Feng - a young Chinese diasporic artist, whose movement practice conjures improvisation, release-based contemporary, groovy things and Chinese Classical Dance.

Here will be a hideaway for anyone that decides to join, to feel welcomed and safe, to share a moment together, to be emotional, to think and reflect; if they will, or not.

About Jiawen Feng

Jiawen Feng(any/all), a Naarm-based emerging dance artist, originally from Shanghai, China.

Graduated from BFA(Dance) at Victorian College of the Arts in 2022, they have in their coursework experience working with acclaimed choreographers and artists including Kialea-Nadine Williams, Kimball Wong, Brianna Kell and Daniel Riley(RISE), Gregory Lorenzutti(Theatrum Botanicum), Carol Brown and Jordine Cornish(Mental Space); Lucy Guerin(Splinter Groups); Ngioka Bunda-Heath(Footprint).

Jiawen has a strong interest in multimedia performances and interactive technologies and has experiences working with technologies as a capturee/performer. They were a part of Swinburne University’s Siggraph Asia Project(Motion Capture) and Volumetric Capturing project(2021-2022) organised by Kim Vincs. Most recently they worked with Megan Beckwith for “Parallax”(choreographed and artistically directed by Megan), a 40 minute long solo integrating rigorous movement score, animation and 3D illusions, which was performed at the Castlemaine Fringe Festival.

Jiawen’s movement vocabulary is a conjure of improvisation, release-based contemporary techniques and Chinese Classical Dance.
Their current work in creation is “Ode to Being”, an autobiographical work, planning to be premiered at Melbourne Fringe 2023.
In their practice, they endeavour to further incorporate their cultural identity and challenge the way art communicates to an audience.

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Duration: 60 minutes
Event Accessibility: Blind or Low Vision Rating: Partially Accessible, Deaf or Hard of Hearing Rating: Partially Accessible, English no barrier
Age suitability: G
Event warnings: Haze Effects, Some Infrequent/Low Pressure Audience Interaction.

Abbotsford Convent - Industrial School
1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VICTORIA, 3067

Wheelchair Access

Abbotsford Convent - Industrial School is wheelchair accessible.

There is step-free access to the venue. Wheelchair users enter at the main entrance. There are uneven footpaths throughout the grounds.

There are 2 two-hour accessible on-street parking spaces located on St Heliers Street, beside Gate One. There are six accessible parking places are located at the front of the car park on the northern side of St Heliers Street. There is also a car park located within a short distance of Gate One. The entrance is near a dedicated pedestrian thoroughfare and road cross over.

There are accessible toilets at this venue, though not all toilet doors are automatic.

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Full: $28.00
Concession: $23.00
Blak Tix: $18.00

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Date	Time	Venue
Thursday, 12 October 2023	6:15pm	Abbotsford Convent - Industrial School	Past Event
Friday, 13 October 2023	6:15pm	Abbotsford Convent - Industrial School	Past Event
Saturday, 14 October 2023	12:00pm	Abbotsford Convent - Industrial School	Past Event
Saturday, 14 October 2023 Sold Out	6:15pm	Abbotsford Convent - Industrial School Sold Out	Past Event