Alice Heyward

Mattering (in development) – Alice Heyward & Megan Payne

“You need to build something (in order) to undo”

Alice Heyward

Alice Heyward is an Australian dancer based in Berlin. We cover

  • making objects through composition
  • the ‘tingle’
  • experiential mediums
  • magic
  • relationships
  • capital
  • assets
  • building and undoing

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Works:

CV of Alice Heyward

Education

2013

  • Bachelor of Dance Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne

Selected Work

2019

  • Choreography for Jacqui Shelton in the frame of ‘Octopus’ at Gertrude Contemporary
  • Mattering with Megan Payne, PSAS, Perth, Western Australia

2018

  • Continuous Monument by Alice Heyward and Ellen Davies at MPavilion
  • P∞l with Sam Khoshbin and Asher Shay-Nemirow commissioned by The Watermill Center (US) for Discover Watermill Day
  • Tongue rolls between smiles with Megan Payne, FUR Hairdressing (June), Bus Projects (August) in Lessons from Dancing curated by Zoe Theodore and TO DO / TO MAKE at 215 Albion Street, Brunswick in association with Neon Park, curated by Zoe Theodore and Shelley Lasica
  • Surface Practice with Ellen Davies for ‘EPISODE 6 GUEST, RIGGS (STEPHANIE GUEST + KATE RIGGS) HASTY WORK’ as part of the exhibition WORKAROUND – WOMEN DESIGN ACTION at RMIT Design Hub (Melbourne)
  • A Symmetry Project for St. Michael’s Grammar School, Gasworks Theatre, Melbourne
  • Future City Inflatable with Ellen Davies, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne
  • Solutions with Megan Payne and collaborators commissioned by Practice Studio Practice at Pitch Festival

2017

  • Mutter, Matter (in development at Lucy Guerin Inc. 2018), first iteration November, Prenzlauer Berg
  • Imaginary Dances in the frame of Alternativen zum Selbst with works by Lulu Obermayer and Jule Flierl, Performing Arts Festival Berlin, Kunsthaus KuLe
  • Beyond Before (Woolloomooloo), 2017, curated by Lee Mèir in re-dance, ada studio, Uferstudios, Berlin.
  • Calling You and Yours Truly, Companion Species in the frame of Crystal Anniversary, VULVA CLUB #15, hosted by Female Trouble at Tanztage 2017, Sophiensaele, Berlin

2016

  • Before The Fact, commissioned for the Keir Choreographic Award, Dancehouse, Melbourne
  • Now Is Not The Place, Murray White Room, Melbourne

2015

  • SHIP with Rachell Clark, NAH DRAN, ada Studio, Uferstudios, Berlin

Selected Collaborations

2019

  • FIGURES by Maria Hassabi
  • TOGETHER by Maria Hassabi
  • A Treatise On Limnology a film by Dane Komljen, choreography by Rose Beermann
  • Temporary Title, 2015 by Xavier Le Roy and Scarlet Yu, Haus der Kultur der Welt, as part of the event Life Forms, Berlin and at Centre National de la Danse – Pantin, as part of the series, Repertoire
  • Still Untitled by Xavier Le Roy, Centre National de la Danse – Pantin, as part of the series, Repertoire
  • Affection Play with Rowan Oliver in the frame of Personal Touch at Incinerator Gallery , Melbourne

2018

  • Affection Play with Rowan Oliver at gallery wherelunga, Perth
  • Sinkhole by Jess Gall, Arini Byng and Rebecca Jenson as part of Why Listen to Plants? curated by Liquid Architecture
  • Aggression Play with Rowan Oliver and Jess Gall for group show Itchy at Seventh curated by Lorilee Yang
  • Exoplanets by Alicia Frankovich at Monash University Museum of Art
  • Right of Reply for ‘Brief Sheet’ by Augusta Vinall Richardson
  • Light, colour and quiet conversations by Sarah Aiken, presented as a part of Critical Mass in Melbourne Fringe at Brunswick Mechanics Institute
  • BEHAVIOUR part 7 by Shelley Lasica, TO DO / TO MAKE at 215 Albion Street, Brunswick in association with Neon Park, curated by Zoe Theodore and Shelley Lasica
  • We Can’t Wait Much Longer by Noodlerice + Friends at The Watermill Center for TIME BOMB: The 25th Annual Watermill Center Summer Benefit & Auction (USA)
  • Sinkhole by Jess Gall, Arini Byng and Rebecca Jenson at Irene Rose gallery, Melbourne
  • Line & Curve by Rowan Oliver, Alaska Projects, Sydney
  • Temporary Title, 2015 by Xavier Le Roy and Scarlet Yu, Tanzplattform Deutschland, PACT Zollverein, Essen
  • Replay (2004) by Eszter Salamon, Choreographic Lab and Performance, Abbotsford Convent (Dancehouse, Melbourne, Lucy Guerin Inc. and Balletlab) 2018
  • BEHAVIOUR part 7 by Shelley Lasica, Union House, The University of Melbourne

2017

  • Snails by Grażyna Roguski, Times New Romantic, (M.I/mi1glissé), Berlin
  • Aggregate by Alexandra Pirici, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.)
  • pool (no water), performative reading of Mark Ravenhill’s text with Joel Mu, Lulu Obermayer and Jule Flierl, Kunsthaus KuLe in the frame of #swimminginapooloffriends curated by Lulu Obermayer and Nora Almes, Gallery Weekend Berlin
  • Between Us, or Who Cares About Resolution by Roni Katz, DOCK 11 (Berlin) and Performing Arts Forum (France)
  • We are the Monsters by Colette Sadler (Antwerp, Le Mans, Hardelot, Hull, Nottingham, Jena)

2016

  • outside before beyond by Alicia Frankovich, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen Düsseldorf
  • MANON LESCAUT, MANON LET’S GO (after Puccini, but not really)by Lulu Oberymayer, Uferstudios, SODA graduation at Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin (HZT)
  • The Soft Act of Killing (text) by Agata Siniarska, SODA presentation, Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin (HZT)
  • RADICAL TOGETHERNESS with Stefan Jovanovic, Architectural Association, London
  • Snails by Grażyna Roguski, Potnia Theron. The animal in science and art. An exhibition of the Custody of the TU Dresden Altana Gallery
  • Animal Companion by Hana Lee Erdman, NGBK, Berlin
  • Shine Theory by Alicia Frankovich in collaboration with District and HAU (Berlin), Aesthetics of Resistance programmed by Julia Lazarus and Suza Husse.
  • We are the Monsters by Colette Sadler (Brighton Dome, Nottingham, The Lowry, Manchester)
  • Temporary Title, 2015 by Xavier Le Roy and Scarlet Yu, Festival d’automne à Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou
  • Mommy by Louise Trueheart, House of Xanadutzi. Club H.Ø.D. IMPULSTRANZ, Vienna
  • Signals by Alexandra Pirici, Berlin Biennale (BB9), Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art
  • TRANSCENDING, for peace by Lilach Livne, Sydney Biennale (20BoS), Critical Path
  • Camel by Geoffrey Watson, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne
  • SOFT REALITY by Chloe Chignell, KINGS ARI, Melbourne

2015

  • Temporary Title, 2015 by Xavier Le Roy and Scarlet Yu, Kaldor Public Art Projects, Carriageworks, Sydney
  • Fluids by Alexandra Pirici, a reinvention of Allan Kaprow’s Happening Fluids (1967), Potsdamer Platz, Berlin
  • Reflections by Mia Lawrence, THINK BIG festival, Munich
  • Five Dance Constructions and Some Other Things (1960/61) including Huddle (1961), Slant Board (1961) and Scramble(1961) by Simone Forti, Index Foundation, Stockholm
  • Unser Refrain by Michael Poetschko (Berlin)
  • Title In Process (2015) and excerpts from Low Pieces (2009-2011) by Xavier Le Roy, Venice Biennale (Biennale College-Danza)
  • Animal Companion by Hana Lee Erdman, ‘we, animals / transference (dt)’ exhibition at Meinblau Project space, curated by Anne Hoelck and ‘Erotic Objects’ in the frame of ‘Objects, Animals and Perversions’ at DOCK 11, Berlin
  • Dancing Days by Stefan Dreher, DANCE Festival, Munich
  • THANKSBODYDANCE by Leah Marojevic, ada Studio, Uferstudios, Berlin
  • I Want To Believe – Explorations of Time and Texture #2 by Tarren Johnson, Tatwerk, Berlin

2014

  • Intermission by Maria Hassabi / ‘Framed Movements’ exhibition, ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art), Melbourne Festival
  • DANCERNESS, performative reading of Becky Hilton’s manifesto at Helen Grogan’s ‘Specific In-Between’ (The Choreographic Negotiated In Six Parts): Part 4: Ambiguous edges (philosophy, dance, choreography), Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne Festival
  • An Artist in Your Backyard by Becky Hilton, through Dancehouse, Melbourne
  • Australian Suburban Living Project or Harvest by Geoffrey Watson, developed into Camel, 2016 Next Wave Festival, Melbourne
  • Drift (1974) by Trisha Brown, transmitted by Lauren Jenkins, Le Mouvement – Performing the City festival, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland

2013

  • Groupness by Becky Hilton, Pieces for Small Spaces, Lucy Guerin Inc., Melbourne

Assistance

  • Micro Revolution by Judith Sanchez Ruiz and New Group, ACUD MACHT NEU Berlin, 2015
  • Lilach Livne’s workshop Neo-Abstract & The Non-Image: Issues of Spirit and Embodiment at Impulstanz Vienna

Writing

  • Future City Inflatable, a conversation co-written with Ellen Davies for To Do / To Make 2 at 215 Albion Street, Brunswick in association with Neon Park, curated by Zoe Theodore and Shelley Lasica, October 21st 2018
  • Performing Formats: HYPERLANDS, Performance Paradigm #13, edited by Erin Brannigan, Caroline Wake, Hannah Matthews
  • She remembers, This Container issue 5, hosted by Carrierbag festival, Danse Atelier, Copenhagen
  • Kaya(review) by Yuko Kaseki and Antonis Annisegos, Viereinhalb Sätze (4.5)
  • Before The Fact, This Container issue 2
  • Our disappearing present (contributor) by Benjamin Forster for Next Wave Festival 2016
  • Temporary Title, 2015 by Xavier Le Roy and Scarlet Yu for Kaldor Public Art Projects blog
  • They Come At Dawn – GDF, a collective writing for the future, Indigo Dance Festival, Performing Art Forum (PAF)
  • FRAGMENTS: A Collective Archive of Textual Trouvailles – State of the Art Berlin (contributor)
  • Anti-Obscurantism, Dancehouse Diary #8 ‘ WHAT THE BODY CAN DO – DANCE AND ETHICS
  • Written reflection on An Artist in Your Backyard by Becky Hilton, supported by Dancehouse, Melbourne
  • Shared Division, published in Dancehouse Diary #7 ‘THE SACRED AND THE PROFANE – RITUALS OF NOW’, 2014
  • NAKEDNESS IS A PROCESS NOT A STATE, Dancehouse Diary #6 ‘THE BODY IN THE RAW – NUDITY, TODAY’, 2014

Editing

  • Editorial Assistant to Moriah Evans and John Hoobyar for the 2019 Tanzkongress
  • Betraying Ambition by Diego Agulló
  • In the beginning was a copy by Agata Siniarska for
  • In Between Festival publication, Poland (texts by Hermann Heisig, Peter Pleyer, Agata Siniarska)

Host/Guest

  • Initated P0$$€ dance and reading group MELBOURNE with Rebecca Jensen and Sarah Aiken
  • co-producer of ‘Being a Pig – or a questionable formula for the practice of dance’ a workshop by Deborah Hay at Abbotsford Convent (2019)
  • Delegate Speaker at Revision Summit #18 at Kraftwerk Berlin, November 2018
  • P0$$€ dance and reading group host, with text by Superstudio (1971) and Deborah Birch (2018), October 2018, Stockholm
  • Panel presenter at PROCESS LOOP: ATMOSPHERE: Time, Space and the Senses, May 2016, Melbourne

Teaching

  • Currently undertaking a Klein Technique™ Certification Program with Susan Klein (TCP5)
  • Workshop at State Theatre of Western Australia (2019)
  • The Center, Berlin (2014-2017)
  • St. Michael’s Grammar School, Melbourne (2012 and 2018)

Residencies/Collective structures

2019

  • danceWEB Scholarship Programme (‘frog’ recipient) in the frame of ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival with mentors Anne Juren, Annie Dorsen and Mette Ingvartsen
  • Choreography-Gallery-Practice: Workshop, UNSW
  • Kaldor Public Art Project 34: Asad Raza, ‘Absorption’ research workshop
  • Residency at Freemantle Arts Centre for Tongue rolls between smiles with Megan Payne

2018

  • Full time residency at Lucy Guerin Inc for the development of Mutter, Matter
  • Within Practice 7-day meeting and symposium, Stockholm
  • ‘Body Politics’ at Bus Projects, Melbourne, with Shelley Lasica, Bridie Lunney and Torie Nimmervoll, and Eugenia Lim and participants
  • International Summer Residency project at Watermill Center with Robert Wilson (USA)

2017

  • Belgrade AIR residency with Leah Marojevic
  • Performance Lab with Anna Halprin, Mountain Home studio, Kentfield, California, 2017
  • Poetry Week, Performing Arts Forum, Summer University, St. Erme, France, 2017
  • Elsewhere & Otherwise, Performing Arts Forum, St. Erme, France, 2017
  • Arts House 4 Walls residency

2016

  • CND (centre national de la danse) residency (Paris) with The Pool (collective)
  • Centro per la Scena Contemporanea: Choreographic Research Week (Bassano, Italy), supported by BMOTION festival (Roberto Cassarotto) and Dancehouse, Melbourne
  • danceWEB Scholarship Programme 2016 in the frame of ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival with the mentorship of Tino Sehgal and Louise Höjer
  • Zagreb Dance Centre (Zagreb Plesni Centar, ZPC) residency
  • 2016 ‘Out-Of-Time’ Residency at Lucy Guerin Inc.

2015

  • Indigo Dance Festival, PAF, Performing Arts Forum, Summer University, St. Erme, France, 2015

Awards/Support

2019

  • Tanja Liedtke Foundation
  • American Australian Association

2015/16

  • Graduate Mentorship Scholarship (Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne), mentored by Sandra Parker

2014

  • Ian Potter Cultural Trust
  • Attestation sur l’honneur – Centre National de la Danse, Paris
  • Artstart grant from the Arts Funding Division of the Australia Council for the Arts

2011

  • Victorian College of the Arts and Music Endowment Scholarship for Dance

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Matt Cornell is based in the Asia-Pacific region and grew up in Darwin, on Larrakia land. He works through dance, choreography, sound, photography, and discussion to question the arbitrary configuration of systems, and is passionate about overcoming cognitive bias... to ask better questions… to dissolve malignant social narratives.

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