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Critical Path and Tasdance Residency Partnership – Sharing

Louise’s recent work uses the symbolism and philosophy from alchemy as an overarching theme and includes an integrated visual description of the work, which describes that which cannot be seen. She is entering into a month of research in Australia spending time in Tasmania (Hobart and Launceston 20 June to 8 July) in partnership with Tasdance and New South Wales (9 to 20 July).

For this residency, Louise will continue the research into alchemy and how a choreographic process can learn from alchemical methods of repetition, distillation and refinement. She will also deepen her practice of using visual description for choreography and to experiment with how visual description can exist in and as choreography. Visual description is a method for providing access to art usually practiced on still works like paintings or sculpture, so the potential for it to exist in live works is to be explored with an open mind through play and improvisation.

Louise will be presenting her research and practice.

Louise Ahl is a Glasgow-based artist originally from Sweden, making experimental and choreographic performance work. She creates both solo and collaborative multi-art-form pieces under the guise of Ultimate Dancer.

Louise makes work around the metaphysical and mystical, using movement, voice, light, sonics and language. Her work has shown across the UK (including, but not limited to Southbank Centre and BALTIC Centre of Contemporary Art), Ireland, Germany, France, USA and Australia and has been supported through Creative Scotland, Arts Council England and the Swedish Arts Grants Committee.

Louise was a New Associated Artist at Yorkshire Dance in 2012 and a Tramway Associated Artist in 2015/16. She is the 2017/18 recipient of the Starter Artist award through the National Theatre of Scotland.

www.louiseahl.com

Supported by Australia Council for the Arts and Creative Scotland.

Tickets: Louise Ahl – Sharing

Date & Location

  • Friday 20 July, 5pm - Friday 20 July, 2018 6pm
  • The Drill Hall

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Critical Path

The Drill, 1C New Beach Rd,
Darling Point (Rushcutters Bay), Sydney