Fieldworks Performance Group (1988 - 1996)
de Prazer, Ashley: Sue Peacock in 'Traces', Fieldworks Performance Group, 1993
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Fieldworks Performance Group was founded in Perth in 1988 under the direction of Jim Hughes. The group aimed to ?investigate areas of new dance, performance, theatre and new media?. Founding dancers were Bill Handley, Lynne Williams, Janine Burchett and Michael Johnson and Hughes, who was also the company's main choreographer.
The repertoire of Fieldworks Performance Group included Reflections (1990), Poets, Lunatics and Dreamers, Crossings (1991), Traces (1993), Scenes in a Prison (1993), Solos (1994), Why Can?t Emus Fly (1994), The Lost Ones (1994), Odd Couple (1994), Rites of Passage (1996), and Time Out (1996).
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- Dancing Lives, 1996 (Moving picture)
- Choreography: Stock, Cheryl
- Choreography: Aldous, Lucette
- Choreography: Dalman, Elizabeth
- Director: Hughes, Jim
- VHS videocassette, directed by Jim Hughes of Fieldworks Performance Group
- colour, sound, PAL, 23 mins
- Three dances grouped under the umbrella title Dancing Lives. The works are Sunset (Segment title: 402953) with choreography by Lucette Aldous, Leading to Flight (Segment title: 402941) with choreography by Elizabeth Dalman and Picking out the Glass (Segment title: 402951) with choreography by Cheryl Stock.
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Aldous, Lucette ;
Dalman, Elizabeth Cameron ;
Stock, Cheryl
- Location:
- The Keep Dancing! Collection
- National Film and Sound Archive
- Title no: 402937
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- [Green Mill Dance Compilation], 1993 (Moving picture)
- Cast: Various including artists of Dance Works, Fieldworks Performance Group and Chrissie Parrott Dance Collective.
- VHS videotape, compiled for Green Mill Dance Dance Project
- colour, sound, PAL, 240 mins
- This compilation comprises twelve separate works Knee Deep in Thin Air (Sue Healey), Crush (Hellen Sky), Possessed Dispossessed (Entr'acte Theatre), The Memory Room (Entr'acte Theatre), Acqua Azzurru (Entr'acte Theatre), Human to Human (Helen Herbertson), Poets Lunatics and Dreamers (excerpts) (Jim Hughes), Crossings (Jim Hughes), Software Dragon (excerpts) (Chrissie Parrott), Terminal Velocity (excerpts) (Chrissie Parrott), Factory (excerpts) (Chrissie Parrott), If War Were a Dance (incomplete) (Richard Allen and Karen Pearlman).
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Green Mill Dance Project ;
Dance Works ;
Healey, Sue ;
Allen, Richard James ;
Pearlman, Karen ;
Parrott, Chrissie ;
Entr'acte Theatre ;
Herbertson, Helen
- Location:
- The Keep Dancing! Collection
- National Film and Sound Archive
- Title no: 433200
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- Leading to Flight, 1996 (Moving picture)
- Choreography: Elizabeth Dalman
- Music: Riley Lee and Matthew Doyle
- VHS videocassette, directed by Jim Hughes of Fieldworks Performance Group
- colour, sound, PAL, 5 mins
- Is part of: Dancing Lives (Title no: 402937)
- A piece tracing personal movement memory choreographed and performed by Elizabeth Dalman.
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Dalman, Elizabeth Cameron
- Location:
- The Keep Dancing! Collection
- National Film and Sound Archive
- Segment title no: 402941
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- Papers of Cheryl Stock, 1973-2000 (Manuscript)
- 7 boxes
- This collection comprises papers and other material relating to Cheryl Stock's career as a dancer, teacher and choreographer. There are two components to the collection. One comprises papers relating to Stock's career in general, the other to her work as founding artistic director of Dance North.
The collection includes working notes, research notes, programs, scripts, publicity material, press cuttings and photographs relating to various productions with which Stock has been involved. Those productions include works for Australian Dance Theatre, New Moon Theatre Company, Human Veins Dance Theatre, One Extra Company, Kinetikos Dance, North Queensland Ballet Company, Queensland Theatre Company, and Fieldworks Performance Group as well as Dance North. The photographic component consists of images of works made for Dance North by Stock and other choreographers including Nanette Hassall and Graeme Watson. They include Playground, Mangoes, Reconnect and talk to me, Heatwave, Neurotica suburbia, Sun, sea and sandwiches, Signs of the times, Ochre Dusk, Passenger, Sun-hunters, Desert magic, Windprints, A moon of our own, Women's war too, If war were a dance, World cafe, Taking Flight, Broken Places, and Please no more palms. There is also a small amount of correspondence relating to specific productions and copies of journal articles, keynote addresses and seminar papers by Stock.
Further information relating to the scope and content of the papers can be found at MS 8354 - Papers of Cheryl Stock (1973-2000)
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Stock, Cheryl ;
Dance North ;
Australian Dance Theatre ;
Human Veins Dance Theatre ;
One Extra Dance
- Location:
- National Library of Australia
- MS 8354
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- Picking out the glass, 1996 (Moving picture)
- Choreography: Cheryl Stock
- Music: Sarah Hopkins
- VHS videocassette, produced by Fieldworks Performance Group
- colour, sound, PAL, 7 mins
- Is part of: Dancing Lives (Title No: 402937)
- A piece about personal movement memory choreographed and performed by Cheryl Stock.
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Stock, Cheryl
- Location:
- The Keep Dancing! Collection
- National Film and Sound Archive
- Segment title no: 402951
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- Sunset, 1996 (Moving picture)
- Music: Strauss, Richard
- Choreography: Aldous, Lucette
- Director: Hughes, Jim
- VHS video cassette, directed by Jim Hughes of Fieldworks Performance Group
- colour, sound, c. 5 mins
- Is part of: Dancing Lives (Title no: 402937)
- A dance tracing personal movement memory choreographed and performed by Lucette Aldous.
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Aldous, Lucette
- Location:
- The Keep Dancing! Collection
- National Film and Sound Archive
- Segment title no: 402953
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