and Again

and AGAIN 2023

And Again, gestures towards themes of gendered labour, bodily persistence and resistance, and the interplay between the individual and the group. Forming and reforming, the bodies meet in action and repetition, in order to return what has slipped to the recesses of our attention, back to the light. The work started with propositions of pinning, pulling, pushing, and holding that which is fleeting or often swept away. Considering what has been and what is now, the time between is squeezed and stretched. One moment meets another moment, sometimes these moments are hard to grasp, sometimes they are distinct returns.

Contemporary times present myriad challenges that leave us with the conundrum of rapid human impact and slow change. Tensions from slow sexisms, politics and climate change press up against notions of progress and desires to reframe our cultural memory from a different vantage. These are concepts and themes I continually return to. The work is made of what has been and gone and is here again, and again but in different clothes (Jonathan Burrows, 2022).

Outbound, LINK Dance Company, Geoff Gibbs Theatre, 22 June 2023. and Again was made possible by the support of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University.

Concept and Direction, Costume Design – Emma Fishwick
Creative Collaborator and Assistant – Ella-Rose Trew
Choreography – Emma Fishwick and LINK Dance Company
Dancers - Aly Byrne, Elizabeth Chapman, Annmarie Clifton-James, Ebony Cunliffe, Chelsea Goodchild, Amelie Ladyman, Keana Mislang, Hannah Mitchell, Sophie Sibbons, Kailyn Tang. Music - Nocturne No. 2 in F Sharp Major, Opus 15, composed by Frédéric Chopin, performed by Gennaro Di Donna.

LINK Artistic Director – Michael Whaites
Set and Costume Coordinator – Bruce McKinven
Lighting Designer – Matthew Marshall
Sound Designer – Dale Kerrigan
Costume Realisation – Nicole Marrington
Production Stage Manager – Katy Malacari
Assistant Stage Managers – Rowan Houlton, Stephanie Ierino
Lighting Programmer – Rhys Pottinger
Lighting Console Operator – Brendan Dietrich
Mechanist / Fly – Sam Kirkbride

TOUR - and Again (excerpt) performed at Singapore Night Festival August 2023

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All images by Stephen Health Photography, Film by Emma Fishwick