Performance History

2011 Residencies

Residency Showing

2011 STRUT SEED residency artist, Michelle Outram's showing of her project THE PNG WORK.

The work uses Australian archival film and sound materials from Papua New Guinea in the 1960s and 1970s; performance and film installation work focusing on the visceral and sensory response, creating unique experiences of the present moment for audience participants.

Imagine a piece of 16mm film as it runs through a hefty film projector. The film is being pushed and pulled between a light and a lens. The light, the heat that burns, the flecks of dust that scratch the surface, the rubbing of surface on surface, the possibility of snagging and ripping.

Now imagine a dancer. She is dancing a sensation remembered from memories of her first home. She touches the crumbling surface of the wall. She responds, she catches your eye, she responds. She flickers in the rhythm of the projected image.- Michelle Outram, 2010

This is a unique opportunity to be part of the final stage of Michelle Outram's residency with showing and artist talk leading into future plans for creative development. The ideas are presented to a mobile audience as they journey through a series of filmic environments within the architectural site. Live performers also inhabit this space, leading the audience 'inside' the projections, while interacting, responding and moving.

In 2007 Michelle was awarded one of the inaugural Fellowships at the Centre of Scholarly and Archival Research, National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra. THE PNG WORK is a result of this research.

Artists: by Michelle Outram with performer/ collaborator Adelina Larsson
Additional performers: Hellen Russo, Jessica Lewis, James Berlyn & Bianca Martin
Production manager: Simon Wise
Date: Monday 5 December
Time: 8pm
Venue: Fremantle Arts Centre, 1 Finnerty St Fremantle WA
RSVP: to STRUT dance Producer Jo Pickup by Thursday 1 December.

STRUT dance regards SEED residencies as critical to its role as a choreographic development centre, building a dynamic contemporary dance culture and community in Western Australia.

This project has been supported by the State Government's investment in Future Moves, a strategic initiative to develop and vitalise contemporary dance in Western Australia.

Virtual Showing

A STRUT dance virtual showing of 2011 residency artist, Aimee Smith's creative development for her project Wintering.

Thanks to the WA Department of Culture and the Arts Future Moves initiative STRUT dance is able to offer support to independent WA choreographers through a specialised contemporary dance-artist residency program.

These residencies fund WA choreographers to work on their projects with their creative teams in the studio towards the creation of new contemporary dance work.

In September 2011, WA choreographer Aimee Smith, undertook a STRUT creative development residency for her project Wintering - a new contemporary dance duet work.

Wintering was originally inspired by Aimee's 2010 trip to the Arctic Circle, and the coexisting elements of beauty & destruction, hope & fear, and strength & fragility she observed within this environment.

The piece uses imagery and sounds collected by Aimee from the Arctic, together with moving, dancing bodies to explore the complex relationships between humans & the natural world.

This project was initially supported by STRUT dance in 2010 with a SEED residency (residencies for the development of new ideas/ work). This work has also received arts development funding from the WA Department of Culture at the Arts, allowing Aimee to undertake an additional development in preparation for its premiere at the 2012 Next Wave Festival in Melbourne.



STRUT dance regards its residency program as critical to its role as a choreographic development centre, building a dynamic contemporary dance culture and community in Western Australia.

This project has been supported by the State Government's investment in Future Moves, a strategic initiative to develop and vitalise contemporary dance in Western Australia.