(Salvaged Relatives on the wall at Milly Sleeping, Carlton.)
Gracia's collaged lovelies now come as a brilliant and glossy poster featuring all sixty-three of the Salvaged Relatives from editions I, II, and III (2014–2015) in their modified Ballet Russes costumes.
You can purchase the whole dance troupe for $50 though our online store.
And speaking of dance, you can also read G's thoughtful and beautiful response to Chunky Move's new work Depth of Field, here, on Fjord Review. It is the first of many Dance Massive 2015 pieces, which I have been lucky enough to see as well. From Meeting to Catalogue and a preview of Tiny Slopes, a work in progress, it is proving a massive blast.
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Establishing who is a performer and who is actually walking home or on a grocery dash (or crashing the party with their Jack Russell) was a chief part of the playfulness of this piece. Asked to look closely at the obvious and the less obvious, it became a game of ‘spot the performer’ that actually made everyone within frame a part of the work. The mother and toddler that rested under the tree near the corner — were they a part of the piece, like the woman in the red scarf seen purchasing a parking ticket? The joggers too — that was orchestrated, right? My imaginary cast sheet for Depth of Field includes the motorists on the freeway, more than likely oblivious to the work they were a part of. Their credit: moving tail light providers. It also includes commuters on the tram. Their credit: neck ‘crickers’. And a windblown plastic bag seen rising and settling in own reenactment of a scene from Sam Mendes’s film American Beauty (1999).
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