Dance & Physical Theatre

STAUNCH ASF

Experience fierce, BLAK and mesmerising storytelling through contemporary dance.

Dates 12 - 15 Oct
Time 7:30pm, 6:30pm (50 minutes)
Venue Meat Market - Cobblestone Pavilion

$26.00

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A close up image of Amelia's face and upper body. She is holding grass-straw and emu feathers up to her neck, with her head back and with her hand on her face as she looks up into the dark space around her and the light shines on her.

Past Event

Dance & Physical Theatre Fringe Fund

Image Credit: Alliah Nival

Created and Performed by: Amelia Jean O'Leary
Lighting design: Giovanna Yate Gonzalez
Set Design: Savanna Wegmen

This new contemporary dance work immerses itself in Amelia Jean O’Leary’s experience of growing up as a Gamilaroi Yinarr in the suburbs and constantly having to reclaim her Blakness. O’Leary reclaims her autonomy, agency and ancientness through healing and expression.

What happens when you own all of you and nothing of you belongs to someone else? When your body is your body, your time is your time and your space is your space.

"To fight, to rest, to make decisions, to be ignored or crucified. I am sacred yet constantly demystified. Sculpted by the coloniser, wired by the ancestors. Dipped in nutrients, soaked in essence, this is my body right, my life, my dance, our dance." - Amelia O'Leary

STAUNCH ASF was developed with the support of Dancehouse and the Sidney Myer Fund. This project received Cash to Create through the Fringe Fund, as part of Deadly Fringe.

About Amelia O'Leary

Amelia O’Leary is a First Nations Gamilaroi Yinarr from Northern New South Wales and has lived in Naarm (Melbourne) for the past eleven years. O’Leary’s dance practice is grounded in the duality of power and softness. It breathes freedom and honesty of exploration and human experience, becoming a product of both the digital and physical realms. As an independent artist, O’Leary is interested in creating her own soundscapes and projections as part of an integrated practice. O’Leary has created multiple dance works and films including 'Yinarr' the film that was presented at Yirramboi festival 2020 and Dance (Lens) Festival 2021. After graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2021, O’Leary performed her first full-length work ‘Yinarr’ in Adelaide Fringe and Dancehouse in 2022. She was also a part of ‘Collision’ by Jo Lloyd presented at Junction Arts Festival and ‘Garabari’ by Joel Bray at Arts House in 2022. In 2023 O’Leary shared her second full-length work ‘A Certain Mumble’ in Frame Festival at the Northcote Town Hall.

Duration: 50 minutes
Event Accessibility: English no barrier
Age suitability: MA15+
Event warnings: Contains Strobe Lights And Sustained Bright Lights, Haze Effects, Some Nudity, Strong Coarse Language, Both Sudden And Sustained Loud Noises, Some Infrequent/Low Pressure Audience Interaction.

Meat Market - Cobblestone Pavilion
3 Blackwood St, North Melbourne, VIC, 3051

Wheelchair Access

Meat Market - Cobblestone Pavilion is wheelchair accessible.

This venue is wheelchair accessible. There are no steps in this venue and there are accessible toilets.

Please note that there is a smoothed out cobblestone path leading up to the venue.

There is on-street parking available for permit holders.

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Full: $26.00
Concession: $22.00
Group 4+: $15.00
Extra Applause: $30.00
Blak Tix: $10.00

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Date	Time	Venue
Thursday, 12 October 2023	7:30pm	Meat Market - Cobblestone Pavilion	Past Event
Friday, 13 October 2023	7:30pm	Meat Market - Cobblestone Pavilion	Past Event
Saturday, 14 October 2023	7:30pm	Meat Market - Cobblestone Pavilion	Past Event
Sunday, 15 October 2023	6:30pm	Meat Market - Cobblestone Pavilion	Past Event