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CASTILLO

CASTILLO

Winner BEST PERFORMER Green Room Awards 2023

CASTILLO is new dance performance sparked by an artistic synergy between Prue Lang and Jana Castillo. The work explores the taxonomy of touch and texture through the lens of  choreography and neurodiversity.

CASTILLO danced and described via Pointe Shoes, Socks &…

PROJECT F

PROJECT F

Winner BEST CHOREOGRAPHY Green Room awards 2022

PROJECT F is a kinaesthetic engagement with feminism, felt via a particular focus on female figures from 12th century until now. It uses the parallel stories and music from historic and modern day trailblazing women – Hildegard von Bingen (b. 1102) and Princess Nokia (b.1992) –...

Towards Innumerable Futures

Towards Innumerable Futures

A Commission by SYDNEY DANCE COMPANY as part of New Breed 2018.

Imagine the present era is over. Some predict future humans will be aided, guided and minded over by artificial intelligences, super-capturing their lives, pointing them in useful directions, engineering their serendipity, personalising their remote presence, hapticsizing their intimacy…

NGV Triennial

NGV Triennial

A site-specific performance for the NGV Triennial 2018.

This performance was created specifically for and took place within the dynamic graphic and textile installation of American artist Pae White. It was part of Accumulation – a choreographic takeover of the NGV Triennial in collaboration with Chunky Move, with new performance works…

Stellar Project

Stellar Project

Stellar project explores dual concepts of cosmos and chaos, order and complexity, language and affect, the nameable and the ambiguous. Continuing Lang’s choreographic investigations of embodied and experiential perceptions of space and time, the work probes the duality and coexistance of these concepts. At the heart of the investigation is the shared experience of the human body;...

[...] {...} [...] Handovers + Translations

[...] {…} [...] Handovers + Translations

Handovers + Translations was a collaboration between choreographer Prue Lang, visual artist Fayen d'Evie, sculptor Sophie Takách and blind artist Troy McConnell. Throughout October 2016, Gertrude Glasshouse Gallery in Melbourne was the site for a series of trans-sensory and inter-material translations, accumulating as an evolving haptic exhibition.

Spaceproject

Spaceproject

Suppose we saw a leaf falling from a tree.

The event "the leaf falls on the ground" can be characterized by its spatial coordinates three in number (eg 54 ° N latitude, 20 ° E longitude and 120 m above sea level) and the time coordinate (for example 29 April, 2013 at 1 h 27 min...

Timeproject

Timeproject

Time is the unrecognized partner of the spatial and the intimate of the plastic. If there were only one element in the space it would be motion. And if we map “motion”, one axis represents space and the other represents time. Since the invention of the mechanization of time and the consequent regulation of personal...

Un réseau translucide

Un réseau translucide

Honarary mention award in the PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA -Hybrid Art 2012

Investigating human activity as a renewable source of energy and re-thinking habitual modes of theatre production, Un reseau translucide is an autonomous performance that runs 100% on its own energy. In collaboration with performers Nina Vallon and Vanessa Le Mat and engineer-inventors Amanda...

Timepiece

Timepiece

Created for the MichaelDouglas Kollektiv as part of their ‘One week stand’ series, Timepiece is a response to the collective’s request to create a work in a relatively short timeframe (7days). In order to achieve this Lang chose to create a model, which encompassed autonomy and order whilst focusing on the specificities of the INSTANTANEOUS....

Rubicon

Rubicon

Rubicon was a commission for the 2010 Adelaide International Arts Festival for the Australian company Leigh Warren & Dancers.

Wind moves horizontally, while a draft moves vertically.

Infinite Temporal Series II

Infinite Temporal Series II

In 2003 Prue Lang began a choreographic series inspired by the writings of Jorge Luis Borges. The series came from a desire to create a concise yet dense format of performance, in which the complexity of an idea is explored over many years. Consequently each work develops its…

Did you ever want to be someone else?

Did you ever want to be someone else?

At the invitation of the TATE Modern Prue Lang and Mathieu Briand created a site-specific performance in the Turbine Hall for 100 members of the public. Participants responded to an advertisement in the newspaper inviting them to change their identity and be part of a real-time performance system.

A divided moment of attention

A divided moment of attention

To help bring her own personal examination of new forms of dance and performance theatre to the stage, the 52 year-old actress Elettra de Salvo comissioned two international choreographers and a dance-dramaturge to create a solo for her. Prue Lang, Jochen Roller and Célestine Hennermann were all 33 years old…

La Fleur de Peau

La Fleur de Peau

Something overriding logic and moving between the senses

Lang chose to collaborate with French artist Mathieu Briand –renowned for his fine art in sensory perception- on this work for the Festival Temps d’Images in Paris. Inspired by Duchamp’s Infrathin they together developed a unique sensorial environment…

Iris

Iris

Iris finds its focal point in the subversion of the male gaze on the female body. The eponymous character derives satisfaction working as an undercover call girl to collect photographic evidence for a female client. Exploiting her own fetishistic gaze on the male body, Iris skilfully achieves her…

The Kleine episode

The Kleine episode

EPISODE is a collective formed by Prue Lang, Nicole Peisl, and Richard Siegal, dedicated to the development of extemporaneous performance. In an attempt to re-think the performance-making process, the collective created the Episode dogma through which to develop systems of real-time composition. Each Episode is created in accordance…

Fiftyfourville

Fiftyfourville

Sometimes reality is too complex for oral communication, but legend embodies it in a form that enables it to spread all over the world. Jean-Luc Godard, Alphaville.

In collaboration with video artist Cindy Lee and performers Vanessa Le Mat, Roberta Mosca, Krisha Swiat and Mario Zambrano, Fiftyfourville is…

Infinite Temporal Series

Infinite Temporal Series

Infinite Temporal Series is a choreographic installation created by Prue Lang. Inspired by the writing of Jorge Luis Borges, the work explores performance via experimental narrative structures of simultaneous temporalities. The set is a self-contained performance space consisting of a row of five adjacent rooms with two corridors…

The How episode

The How episode

EPISODE is a collective formed by Prue Lang, Nicole Peisl, and Richard Siegal, dedicated to the development of extemporaneous performance. In an attempt to re-think the performance-making process, the collective created the Episode dogma through which to develop systems of real-time composition. Each Episode is created in accordance…

Uncharted

Uncharted

Uncharted is a short film in which a couple (Crystal Pite and Richard Siegal) contend with the discrepancies between physical and mental space in a cryptic dual occupancy. Ideals and insecurities spin a web in which they search for a thread to self-understanding, while the unknown hovers around…

ScreenPlay

ScreenPlay

A collaboration between Prue Lang, writer David Le Barzic and media artist Cindy Lee, this work is an experiment in choregraphed reading. ScreenPlay posits the implicit (the unsaid, the unseen and the unheard) as a central element of communication, exercising shifting effects on the audience’s experience of a…

The Blueprint episode

The Blueprint episode

Episode was born from a meeting in the Frankfurt Ballett between Prue Lang, Nicole Peisl and Richard Siegal who shared a common desire to rethink their performance-making process. The name Episode refers to two important aspects of their artistic agenda: collectivity and serial process. They believe the idea…

Intervenus

Intervenus

Inspired by the writings of Simone de Beauvoir, Intervenus is a unique performance installation created with five women for the Frankfurt Ballet. Exploring the complexities of the self, the (female) body and the relation to the ‘other’, each performer correlates with a specific text and is linked by…

Narc

Narc

“The image man has of himself is his limit.” Saint Exupery

Created for the Frankfurt Ballett, this duet examines the process inherent in one’s relationship to oneself through the reflection of what is visible. Often used as a self-development tool in dance, the continuous use of a mirror…