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Out of Theatre

Jo Lloyd

Jo Lloyd is a dance artist working with choreography as a social encounter. Operating across live performance, film and often in collaboration with visual artists, Lloyd’s work frequently employs duration and circumstance to unearth unexpected behaviours and outcomes.

Jo is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts and has performed and presented her work in galleries and theatres in Japan, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Australia. A commissioning artist for the 2020 Keir Choreographic Award, she recently created the film and live work Archive the Archive for the National Gallery of Australia’s Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now. Her work Overture, 2018–19, received three Green Room Awards and a Helpmann Award nomination. Jo has been a resident artist at The Substation since 2018.

 

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    ABOUT THE SHOW

    Out of Theatre, 2023, is a series of four performances taking place in Community Hall. Commissioned especially for Melbourne Now, Out of Theatre is a work devised with the gallery space in mind, allowing for theatrical conventions and traditional notions of the audience to be readjusted and decentred. While choreography is typically a structured pursuit, relying on controlled compositions of space and time, Out of theatre joyfully relinquishes this control to explore the idea of what Lloyd calls ‘non-thinking dance’. Playing with repeated logic and the retracing of patterns, the resulting quartet of performances subtly erodes over time, blurring the lines between the inherent concreteness and ephemerality of movement-based performance.

    Season: Saturday 17 June 2pm
    Venue: The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Fed Square – Community Hall, Ground Level
    Price: Free Entry