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Dance on Loan — Jo Lloyd
Hosted by Oliver Savariego
Screening & Discussion
DATE & TIME
Tuesday 21 April, 6.30pm
LOCATION
Temperance Hall, Front Studio
199 Napier Street
South Melbourne
ACCESSIBILITY
Temperance Hall's Front Studio is not wheelchair accessible, with entrance doorway measuring 80cm.
CONTENT
n/a
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Free, please register to attend here
Our second guest artist to loan a dance is Jo LLoyd, sharing her pivotal work Confusion for Three which premiered at Arts House in August 2015.
During his residency Oliver is developing ‘Slapdash’ a solo dance work that rips, crumples, cuts, shoves, layers and smashes together movement materials sourced from other artist’s work. Dance on Loan seeks to acknowledge stolen materials and provoke conversation surrounding choreographic authorship, extrapolating relationships between choreographers, collaborators, and performers.
CONFUSION FOR THREE
“When we leave the room, the dance will leave with us. In this immediate moment, confusion is the only certainty.” In Confusion for Three hypnotic tension is generated by three dancers as they negotiate a progressively unravelling system of choreography. Navigating their physical histories, both recent and distant – from traces of folk dance to idiosyncratic body rhythms – the performers reveal a series of desperate encounters, in a destabilising flood of movement. The questions remain: can this confusion be sustained, and where does it lead us?
CHOREOGRAPHY Jo Lloyd
PERFORMERS Rebecca Jensen, Shian Law & Jo Lloyd
COMPOSER Duane Morrison
COSTUMES Shio Otani
LIGHTING DESIGN Jenny Hector
DRAMATURGY Nicola Gunn and Anny Mokotow
VIDEOGRAPHY James Wright, NON Studio
Performed Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall, Naarm/Melbourne in August 2015 & Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boorloo/Perth in November 2018
OLIVER SAVARIEGO is a dancer and choreographer based in Naarm/Melbourne. His work questions and queers aesthetic values within dance, blends “high” and “low“ art and examines the lines between inspiration, reference and appropriation. He has been exploring transgressive choreographic perspectives since graduating from VCA in 2017, creating “Untitled” with Stuart Shugg in residence at Bennignton College, performing at Weisacres in New York City, and “Surface Area” with Chloe Arnott at Prahran Skate Park. He developed an online installation “Creche” in 2021, which was reworked for live performance in 2023 at Dancehouse. He is currently working on “Slapdash”, a solo work of choreographic collage, developed in residency at Lucy Guerin Inc.
Oliver has collaborated extensively within the Australian dance community. He is currently working with Lucy Guerin Inc, has performed with Phillip Adams Balletlab, Tasdance and Sydney Dance Company, and has worked with independent artists Shelley Lasica, Jo Lloyd, Melanie Lane, Sandra Parker, Harrison Ritchie Jones among many others. He is a proud collaborator in award winning projects, notably Phillip Adam’s Triptych which received 2023 Green Room Award for Best Ensemble, and Sandra Parker’s “Safehold”, winning the 2024 Green Room Award for Best Choreography. is a Front Studio Resident for 2026.
Oliver Savariego is a Temperance Hall Front Studio Resident for 2026.
Temperance Hall's Front Studio Residency offers six independent artists an artist stipend and two months of exclusive, unrestricted access to the Front Studio at Temperance Hall. At the conclusion of their residencies, artists present a public showing of their work in development, and receive professional photographic documentation.
The 2026 Front Studio Residency has been supported by the Neilson Foundation, the City of Port Phillip, and private donors.