'THEM, RELOADED' a workshop intensive with Ishmael Housten Jones

04/12/17

Phillip Adams Balletlab in conjunction with Dancehouse and the 2018 Keir Choreographic Award public program are proud to welcome esteemed American dancer and Choreographer Ishmael Houston-Jones to Temperance Hall. 

THEM is Ishmael Houston Jones's seminal work examining intimacies and violence between men, made amidst the rising tides of the AIDS epidemic in the mid-'80s. Through the process of reconstructing and transmitting THEM to a younger generation of dancers, Houston-Jones will excavate unregistered details about the work and the context in which it was originally created, in resonance with the Australian context, while uncovering powerful resonances with the present.

'THEM, RELOADED' is open to choreographers, dancers, other practitioners with a movement-based practice

Where: Temperance Hall, 199 Napier St, South Melbourne 
Date: 5-9 March 2018 
Time: 10am - 2pm (incl. 30 minute lunch break)
Price: $150
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Image: THEM, photo by Dona Ann McAdams

ON SCORES FOR THE DEAD & THE POLITICS OF DANCING

Ishmael Houston-Jones in dialogue with Phillip Adams

Ishmael Houston-Jones's artistic practice, his curation and his teaching are inseparable from his activism. He makes provocative work that has examined and memorialised the impact of AIDS on numerous communities as well as work that fiercely supports queer artists and/or artists of colour. In this conversation with long-time Melbourne friend Philip Adams, they will be talking AIDS, loss, scores for the dead, the context of politics, the politics of dancing and potential prologues for the end of everything.

Where: Temperance Hall, 199 Napier St, South Melbourne
Date: 4 March 2018
Time: 2-3:30pm
Price: FREE (bookings essential)
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