ROS WARBY: DOUBLE BILL
Ros Warby presents a double bill including her new solo, Court Dance, plus, her adaptation of Deborah Hay's solo work No Time to Fly (2010).
ROS WARBY is one of Australia's leading dancer/choreographers. She has been creating and performing solo dance since 1990 and her award winning work has been presented in Australia, Europe and the USA. Warby has also performed with numerous companies and artists including Dance Works, Dance Exchange, Lucy Guerin Inc. and the Deborah Hay Dance Company, bringing her heightened and unique approach to performance to each of these contexts.
Court Dance (2014)
Choreography and Performance: Ros Warby
Court Dance is Warby's new solo currently in development. Underlying this work is a consideration of our relationship to hierarchy and its impact on our systems through its constant presence, however subtle. Within the work Warby attempts to eliminate hierarchy within individual movement and performance vocabularies in order to expand these vocabularies to include what has not yet been imagined.
The development of this solo has been supported by UCLA World Arts and Cultures / Dance through the creation of an ensemble work for 9 students under the same title. This work was based on Warby's recent trio work, Tower Suites (2012). The UCLA ensemble version was performed in the spring of 2014.
No Time to Fly (2010)
Choreography: Deborah Hay
Adaptation and Performance: Ros Warby
No Time to Fly is choreographed to provide clear and comprehensive instances of non-linear reality for the performer and audience alike. The dancer is practicing a continuity of discontinuity within her unique experience of the choreography – thus engaging the depth of her dancing. The dancers choice to perform much of the choreographed material that determines No time to fly requires catastrophic acts of perception as she dis-attaches from a multitude of former behavior. (D.Hay)
In 2011 Hay re created her solo No Time to Fly into a trio, As Holy Sites Go, which was the first contribution to the Forsythe Company's Motion Bank Project, the groundbreaking choreographic mapping initiative. Each dancer, including Warby, entered this process having practiced and prepared the work as a solo. A year later in 2012/13 the work came to fruition as a duet with Ros Warby and Jeannine Durning.
Warby now brings her solo adaptation of No Time to Fly back into play after practicing the choreographic underpinnings of No time to Fly across 3 years.
