Cloud Split (Development)
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Tracks Dance Studio, Darwin Gulumerrdjin, Larrakia Country
2023 Oct / Nov - In Development
2024 - Performance Premiere
Creative Development
A group artistic exploration initiated by Jess Devereux in conversation with Britt Guy.
Investigating fields of movement improvisation in varied-sized groups. Beginning languid conversations about process and environment, and arriving at a curiosity about about the movement potential of unpredictable phenomena and the tension and tenderness between being reflective and projective... in dance, in life and in nature.
A core collective of interdisciplinary artists simultaneously undertook Cloud Split intensives to inform the project, through soft sharings of their various practices with each other, to start to imagine a sound and visual landscape to support the future performance work.
"We imagined clouds, then swallowed them. Breathed them, conducted and channelled them in our hands. We found new pulses in repetitive movements, hovered amongst each other. Wrote poetry, stretched our bodies with three-dimensional awareness, tuned in, tuned out. Awakened and remembered places while moving, responded to offers as schools of fish in aerial oceans, shared movement in close proximity, cloudscaped, splitting energy, made waves between people, and, found ruptures within formlessness." Jess Devereux and Britt Guy cloud Split notes combined
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Creative Team
Concept and Facilitation: Jess Devereux
Creative Producer and Collaborator: Britt Guy
Artists Collective: Kelly Beneforti, James Mangohig, Britt Guy, Mikaela Lee Earnshaw, Matty van Roden, Spillett, Jess Devereux
Dance workshop participants / researchers
Jenelle Saunders, Maari Gray, Tara Schmidt, Spillett, Kate Boston Smith, Flynn, Shenagh Gamble, Serina Pech, Crystal Thomas, Kate Mornane, Anokai Susi, Alex Jordan, Kelly Beneforti
Company Partners
Tracks Inc. is proudly sponsored by the Northern Territory Government.
Tracks 2023
Artistic Director: David McMicken
Associate Artistic Director: Jess Devereux
Creative Producer: Britt Guy
Production Manager: Duane Preston
Dance Animateurs: Kelly Beneforti and Spillett
Administrator: Debbie Micairan
Bookkeeper: It Figures
Auditors: Brian Tucker Audit
Committee Members: Chairperson: Max Dewa Stretton. Treasurer: Glenn Bernardin. Ordinary Members: Andrea Wicking, David Taylor, Ken Conway, Lachlan Peattie, Rachael Wallis, Anna Lindsay. Ex-Officio: David McMicken, Tim Newth (On leave 2023)
Public Fund Trustees: Maari Gray and Michael Grant