LEG UP 2024
Our 2024 Leg Uppers were Anisah Collins, Courtney Allerton, Danni Cook, Joshua Doctor, Kai Taberner, Remy Rochester & Will Bartolo
LEG ROOM 2024
Kicking off the start of the year was Phaedra Brown, a 2023 Leg Upper, with her collaborator Haley, working on a cross disciplinary work that explores the multifaceted experience of feminine friendship. Then we welcomed Dorothea Csukai and her collaborators Mim Wheeler & Robyn Simpson to continue on their 2023 residency for Hanging by a Thread. Followed by Emily Lecky and team, integrating their vertical dance learnings into more refined set of movement phrases, before venturing back outside to film on Tasmania's striking sea cliffs
Then, we had Glory Tuohy-Daniell, a proud Indjalandji Dhidhanu and Alyewarre artist centring her work around the expression “let’s just put this conversation to bed“, and Reina Takeuchi asking the question: how can the body become a living vessel of culture, an embodied and breathing site of intangible cultural heritage?
In February, we welcomed Catherine Wait and the Cirque X collective of circus/cabaret performers headed by Missy (Catherine Wait) and J Twist (J Miller). Following on from the success of their show TENDER at Sydney Fringe where they won Best In Circus 2024, Cirque X spent some time in the Red Box before presenting at Adelaide Fringe in March 2024.
Finally, 2023 Leg Upper Sabrina Muszynski had some Leg Room for her project Second Skin which was presented as part of Double Bill, Brand X’s Season 8 of the Flying Nun.
Pictured: Cirque X rehearsing in the Red Box as part of Leg Room 2024
LEG UP 2023
2023 residencies were taken up early in the year by Natasha Sturgis towards her work Clambake and Josh Freedman towards Dialogues with my Butt, both of which were performed as part of March Dance 2023.
Later in the year, Gina Limpus spent time on her work in development ALL BODIES, JUST ONE BODY, which will see further development in Brisbane/Meanjin, while Robyn Simpson’s Hanging by a Thread, with herself, Mim Wheeler, and Dorothea Csukai explored the emotions and expectations that both bind us and free us.
Our 2023 Leg Uppers were Jemima Smith, Linda Corazza, Phaedra Brown & Sabrina Muszynski
