Dance Performance – Michelle Mahrer Films

Dance Performances

michelle — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:10:44 +0000

Director / Camera / Editor

Michelle Mahrer’s passion and skill for filming dance has led her to work with leading Australian contemporary choreographers including Lucy Guerin, Gideon Obarzanek, Meryl Tankard and Stephen Page.

Lucy Guerin – Corridor
Lucy Guerin – Structure & Sadness
Lucy Guerin – Aether
Chunky Move – Two Faced Bastard
Chunky Move – Tense Dave
Chunky Move – Crumpled
Gravity Feed – Bland
Shaun Parker – This Show is About People

Other Selected works

Gravity Feed – Babel
Meryl Tankard Dance Theatre – Two Feet
Bangarra Dance Theatre – Fish
Lucy Guerin – Plasticine Park
Lucy Guerin – Ends of Things
Chunky Move – Three’s a Crowd
Dance works – Symptomatic
Australian Ballet School 40 Anniversary Gala

Lucy Guerin – Corridor

michelle — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 06:04:34 +0000

Choreographed by Lucy Guerin, Corridor looks at our ability to live together according to the accepted laws of humanity.  The relationship between movement and language is examined through the body as a transmitter and receiver of information.  The audience sits in a corridor formation of two long single rows facing each other, effectively becoming part of the set. Each viewer has a unique perspective of the work, with the performers seen at very close range, or at a distance as they move up and down the corridor.

Lucy Guerin – Structure & Sadness

michelle — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 06:19:01 +0000

The collapse of the West Gate Bridge in 1970 is an event that remains imbedded in the public psyche of Melbourne. Thirty-five men lost their lives when a span came down during its construction. Structure and Sadness explores an event in recent history not as a factual narrative, but as a physical, emotional and visual response to a devastating accident. Choreographed by Lucy Guerin.

Lucy Guerin – Aether

michelle — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 08:59:21 +0000

Choreographed by Lucy Guerin, Aether is a full-length dance work, which explores the integration of projection, sound and movement. It examines the overwhelming sophistication of contemporary communication and the problems that still remain with expressing ourselves in simple human interactions. 

Chunky Move – Two Faced Bastard

michelle — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 09:00:35 +0000

On either side of a dividing curtain a group of performers juggle two simultaneous shows played to two opposing audiences. Each exit through the curtain becomes an entrance on the other side. As one world bleeds into another a unique performance emerges, cut loose from the rules that determine a performer’s onstage/offstage life. Created by Gideon Obarzanek and Lucy Guerin.  

Chunky Move – Tense Dave

michelle — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 09:01:39 +0000

Dave journeys through strange and fractured versions of a recognisable world distorted by fears, paranoia’s and unfulfilled fantasies. Created by some of Australia’s most celebrated artists, Gideon Obarzanek (Artistic Director Chunky Move), Lucy Guerin (Choreographer) and Michael Kantor (Theatre Director).

Chunky Move – Crumpled

michelle — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 09:02:25 +0000

An early work by Gideon Obarzanek features his signature style of
highly physical choreography.

Gravity Feed – Bland

michelle — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 09:03:26 +0000

Directed by Visual artist performer Alan Schacher founder of Gravity Feed, the Bland project is a contemporary movement work performed within a video landscape. Taking divergent perspectives on blandness found in Oriental and Occidental culture, the work explores what the bland mask conceals. Beneath mild unassuming inscrutable personas the performers pit the high refinement of traditional Eastern aesthetics and culture against a western angst and dissatisfaction.

Shaun Parker – This Show is About People

michelle — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 09:04:22 +0000

Video coming soon…

Innovative Australian choreographer Shaun Parker collaborates with renowned musicians Mara and Llew Kiek in this uplifting dance theatre work.