Name: Folding, presented by Forest Collective
Start: 2024-10-18T19:30:00+11:00
End: 2024-10-18T21:00:00+11:00
Location: Eleventh Hour Theatre

Curated by Forest Collective’s Kim Tan, Folding explores modern subjectivity and the inexorable relationship creativity has with the past. This entanglement is a metaphor for Kim’s own creativity and the expression it finds within her body. Folding is layered with musings on the dialectic between past and present, which find voice through early and new music, period instruments and contemporary dance.
The centrepiece is a new commission for baroque flute and percussion by Evan J Lawson, which reimagines period instruments beyond their historical context, giving them contemporary expression through New Music.
Folding will reach back in time to return the staid form of the ‘Baroque dance suite’ to its historical origins in movement and the body, and will be given visceral modern expression through the haunting choreography of Ashley Dougan. This tension between stasis and fluidity will be further explored through interwoven improvisatory works, with drone, based on excerpts from Jordi Savall’s Lachrimae Caravaggio.
Program:
Échos – Jacques Hotteterre
Suite No. 1 - Michel de La Barre
Conversation I (improvisation)
The present makes relevant the past – Evan J Lawson (world premiere)
Conversation II (improvisation)
Suite op.1, no.5 – Pierre-Danican Philidor
Artists:
Kim Tan: Traverso flute, performer and curator
Meredith Beardmore: Flute
Rosanne Hunt: Cello
Evan J Lawson: Artistic director, composer
Ashley Dougan: Dance and choreography
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Eleventh Hour Theatre
170 Leicester St, Fitzroy VIC 3065
Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country
Located roughly 50m from corner of Leicester and Gore Streets
Public Transport:
11 Tram to stop Leicester St/Brunswick St and 8 min walk on Leicester Street
86 Tram to stop Rose St/Smith St and 3 min walk to Leicester Street
96 Tram to stop Rose St/Nicholson St and 10 min walk on Leicester Street
200 Bus to stop Napier St/Johnston St and 7 min walk on Gore Street to Leicester Street
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$35/30
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