Lady Example
2018 / 2019
“Lady Example is a bewildering bricolage of behaviours and performances, knitted together with total assurance. You feel that it ought to crumble beneath the weight of its own spiralling aspirations. Instead, I found myself enthralled by a precision of judgement and execution that draws together this unclassifiable work into a fascinating unity.”
- Alison Croggon, Witness Performance
A sweeping, operatic dance of bodies, words and women. Created and performed by Alice Dixon, Caroline Meaden and William McBride, with an ensemble of collaborating artists, Lady Example undertakes a deranged and exquisite stocktake of our histories and mythologies to propose a litany of new, glorious, shuddering worlds. Combining contemporary dance and theatre, this shimmering and mischievous performance considers the historical and contemporary feminine – on our stages, on our screens and in the performance of everyday life – and explores with poignancy and wit the lady examples that made us, and the lady examples we are making still.
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Choreography and Direction: Alice Will Caroline
Performers: Fleur Conlon, Alice Dixon, Patrick Durnan Silva, Scott Elstermann, Luke Fryer, Ben Hurley, William McBride, Caroline Meaden, Hannah Monson, Emma Riches, Jo White
Sound Design: Emah Fox
Lighting Design: Jason Crick (Next Wave season), Jenny Hector (Dance Massive season)
Costume Design: Matilda Woodroofe
Producer: Erin Milne, Bureau of Works
Presented by The Substation, Next Wave Festival (2018) and Arts House, Dance Massive Festival (2019)
Nominated for Green Room Awards for Sound Design, Ensemble Performance, Performer (Caroline Meaden), and Choreography
Supported by: the Substation, Arthouse, Vitalstatistix Adhocracy Residency, City of Melbourne Boyd Studio Residency, Bluestone Church Artist Residency, Creative Victoria, Next Wave Festival, Dance Massive Festival, Besen Foundation, the Australia Council for the Arts and private donations
Images by Bryony Jackson (Dance Massive 2019) and Mischa Baka (Next Wave 2018)
Review by Alison Croggon, Witness Performance (Next Wave Festival, 2018)
https://witnessperformance.com/next-wave-lady-example-turning-the-gaze-back/
Review by Jana Perkovic, Sydney Morning Herald (Dance Massive Festival, 2019)
