LINDA LUKE

NEXT WORKSHOP STARTS IN APRIl 2012...

2012-02-14T23:32:00.001+11:00

BUILD YOUR PRACTICE NO 3

24 APRIL - MAY 22, 2012

Continuing onfrom the first series of Build Your Practice in November 2011 and February 2012,these classes will continue to explore principles of BodyWeather and therelationship between body, environment and performance. Each 3hr sessionwill develop physical articulation, deepen sensitivity, and explore the finerskills required for performance making. The sessions will also provide anenergetic workout as a preparation.

Heffron Hall, 34-40 Burton Street, Darlinghurst

Tuesdaymornings 24 April – 22 May 2012

**Pleasenote: no class Tuesday 15 May
Cost: $120
Early Bird Booking: $90 - paymentbefore FRIDAY 6 APRIL
For more information, bookings and paymentcontact: linda.luke@bodyweather.net

Workshop 2012

2011-12-18T21:02:00.002+11:00

BUILD YOUR PRACTICE - No. 2
Tuesday mornings 24 Jan – 14 Feb 2012

Continuing on from the first series of Build Your Practice in November 2011, these classes will further explore BodyWeather and the relationship between body, environment and performance. Each 3hr session will develop physical articulation, deepen sensitivity, and explore the finer skills required for performance making. The sessions will also provide an energetic workout as a preparation.

Heffron Hall, 34-40 Burton Street, Darlinghurst

Tuesdays 10am - 1pm
24 January – 14 February 2012

Cost: $120
Early Bird Booking: $90 - payment before 6 January
For more information, bookings and payment contact: linda.luke@bodyweather.net

Workshop

2011-09-01T14:51:00.000+10:00

Build Your Practice # 1

Tuesdays 10 – 12noon

November 1 – December 6, 2011

HeffronHall, 34-40 Burton Street, Darlinghurst

A series of 6 classes for beginners and intermediate who are interested toexplore a relationship between body, environment and performance. The classeswill focus on:

- ashort ‘MB’ to build fitness, flexibility and grounding;

- a series of explorations around ourperception of thresholds: for example, the thresholds of one’s skin or bones,or that of a slip of fabric, a length of string, or the layers of ‘empty’space that we traverse through.

The classes aim to increase sensitivity and listening powers and develop themore finer skills required for performance making; as well as giving a solidphysical training ground from which to practice.

Cost: $110 - Early Bird Booking $80 - (Book andPay before October 15)

Post Platform...

2011-08-29T22:17:00.005+10:00

PLATFORM 3 turned out to be an excellent night with some 70 odd peeps clambering through the tiny door and crowding into the grey walls of Frasers Studios. The excellent lighting by Emma Lockhart-Wilson added heaps of atmos to the evening, along with cozy bar and hot sweet potato soup. And the intimate performances unfolded here, there ...over there!, muted colours, bright colours, and an interplay of shadow and light.Thanks to all who performed, played, assisted in a myriad of ways to make for such a wonderful evening.

Stay tuned for the next Platform....!

performer: Cleo Mees

Performer: Lian Loke

performer: Alan Schacher

Photos by Mayu Kanamori

PLATFORM 3 at FraserStudios SATURDAY 27 AUGUST at 7pm

2011-08-13T16:05:00.016+10:00

After the success of PLATFORM 1 in 2010 and PLATFORM 2 in March this year, The Weather Exchange is proud to bring you another fabulous selection of dancers and performance artists in a program curated by Linda Luke:

Alan Schacher; Narelle Benjamin; 
Linda Luke, Vic McEwan & Mayu Kanamori; 
Lian Loke; Kirsty Kiloh; Gideon Payten-Griffiths; Cleo Mees 
video installation by Elena Knox
lighting by Emma Lockhart-Wilson

FRASERSTUDIOS, 10-14 Kensington Street, Chippendale
7pm: $10 donation at the door

Open bar & hot soup

Curator notes:

PLATFORM 3 grew out of my desire to mix it up a bit… and so I invited performersAlan Schacher, Narelle Benjamin, musician Vic McEwan, photographer MayuKanamori, and video artist Elena Knox. Ithen invited several performers who’ve trained regularly with us and we’ve beenin a process over the past month to create short solo works. They are KirstyKiloh, Lian Loke, Cleo Mees, and Gideon Payten-Griffiths.

As a result, I’m very excited to present an excellent line up ofperformances! With hot soup and open bar to boot. Linda Luke

THE WEATHER EXCHANGE is a De Quincey Co initiative to support the development of artists based in BodyWeather and associated disciplines.

Body / Landscape Workshop

2011-03-23T12:54:00.008+11:00

...facilitated by Amsterdam performer/dancer Frank van de Ven.
7 days in Kooyoora National Park, Victoria (Mar 6 - 13). Bush, rock, ground, earth, permeation, shifting perception, borderlines disintegrating, disapearance, half cup of coffee, kangaroo, silent but not silent, thrum of atmosphere, aussie bird calling, centipedes, march flies, buttterflies trilling. Find the impetus to dance wholly on the inside like the outside never existed/ now dance outside like you never existed. The watcher/ being watched. The perceived perceives the perceiver. Receptivity. Immediacy. Availablilty to all that is offered you. The Body/ Landscape workshop: a gentle awakening to the real world...
for more photos:https://picasaweb.google.com/lindalunaluke/KooyooraWorkshop2011#

and visit: http://bodylandscapekooyoora.wordpress.com/

Photo: Frank Ven de Ven

HOODIE

2011-02-15T18:27:00.000+11:00

HOODIE from linda luke on Vimeo.
HOODIE is a 25 min dance performance that reflects upon homeless folk in our society today and is part of a larger project entitled THIRTEEN. THIRTEEN encapsulates several components including: live performance, installation, video and activities inviting people to share their perceptions about teenage homelessness and displacement in our community.

HOMELESS HOODIES

2010-12-05T16:53:00.003+11:00

Performance Action #1: Homeless Hoodies was an event as part of my THIRTEEN: A 3 Day Inhabitation project at Performance Space's LiveWorks Festival (Nov 2010) whereby a bunch of people participated in a 30 minute 'sitting/ lying/ squatting and moving very slowly' performance event - to evoke thoughts about homelessness in our society today. It was an excellent thing to do with heaps of feedback from those who partook and those who observed... I'm hoping to activate 'Homeless Hoodies' on a wider scale around Sydney in the near future. Will keep you posted...
photos: Mayu Kanamori

LIVEWORKS FESTIVAL 2010, Sydney

2010-10-07T10:24:00.021+11:00

THIRTEEN: A 3 DAY INHABITATION

LiveWorks Festival, presented by Performance Space at CarriageWorks, Nov 11 - 14, 2010.

Myself and composer Vic McEwan will present a series of performance installations reflecting upon teenage homelessness, and exploring our relationship to home and displacement.

Thirteen: A 3 Day Inhabitation is a durational work spanning three days in spaces around the CarriageWorks foyer, with scheduled performances at 3pm and 5pm each day of the festival.
Note, the 3pm lecture performance on Sat 13 Nov is a ticketed event in Track 8.

Concept & Dance: Linda Luke
Composer: Vic McEwan
Installation Design: Luke Tipene
Artistic Consultant: Tess de Quincey
Photos in video: Mayu Kanamori

http://www.performancespace.com.au/?p=4396

THE WEATHER EXCHANGE, a part of

Also with assistance from Youth Accommodation Association

THIRTEEN - a 3 day inhabitation

2010-08-13T12:20:00.008+10:00

Creative Development for LiveWorks
Festival, Nov 2010

PEOPLE ARE LIKE VELCRO

THEY’LL STICK TO ANYTHING

EVEN STUFF THEY DON’T LIKE…

photo: Mayu Kanamori

the first PLATFORM...

2010-07-28T22:51:00.011+10:00

PLATFORM 1 went off! Excellent performances, gorgeous lighting by Clytie, sumptous soup, nice big warm audience. So this is the first cab off the rank so to speak and a beginning of many more Platforms to pop up in and around Sydney'.

photos: Mayu Kanamori

PLATFORM 1

2010-07-12T22:07:00.012+10:00

Sat 24 July at 7pm
I'm curating the first of a series of cross art-form 'platforms' presented by THE WEATHER EXCHANGE.
at Fraser Studios: 10 -14 Kensington St, Chippendale
$10 donation

Performance by: Martin del AmO, Nikki Heywood, Victoria Hunt, Lian Loke, Linda Luke, Tess de Quincey

Video by: Mayu Kanamori, Emmanuela Prigioni Alebardi
Lights by: Clytie Smith

DANCE DIARIES progress report...

2010-05-26T23:16:00.007+10:00

The DANCE DIARIES 1 film is in it's final post production phase. An amazing project this was - the workshop and filming occurred in April at Campbelltown Arts Centre. Three teenage boys participated and one sensational dancer, Kiliati Pahulu, stayed for the filming aspect of the project. What we have, I believe, is a inspiring and comtemplative film reflecting teenage homelessness displacement and isolation. The DANCE DIARIES 1 film will be posted up on this blog soon...

Dance Diaries: Reflections on Teenage Homelessness

2010-03-14T00:08:00.011+11:00

Choreographer: Linda Luke

Video Artist: Sean Bacon

Composer: Vic McEwan

Project Commences April 6, '10
Commissioned by Campbelltown Arts Centre in partnership with Mission Australia.

The DANCE DIARIES is a film project initiative inviting teenagers who have experienced homelessness to share their story. This short video will be like a visual dance-diary; whereby a group of young people will dance their tales of the ‘outside’ – the vast, impersonal and intimate public spaces that become so significant when living on the streets. Through a week long series of workshops, the participants will share anecdotes, explore movement sequences which most respond to the highs and lows of their experiences, as well as make the film.

solo performance

2010-03-06T22:24:00.047+11:00

FLOWER OF

THE SEASON

at Electric Lodge, Los Angeles
February 19 - 28, 2010

STILL POINT TURNING
30 min solo dance inspired by TS Eliot's Burnt Norton

'Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the doorway we never opened
Into the rose garden' - TS Eliot

Music: 2 metronomes; Arvo Part’s Speigel Im Speigel; Touch 25’s Quick & Cold

Photos by Moshe Hacmon. For more pics from Flower of the Season go to

http://www.flickr.com/photos/iamuman/sets/72157623427324875/

Flower of the Season is the extension of the Earthbeat series Oguri and Steinberg began ten years ago to foster collaborations between visual artists, musicians, writers and dancers. In its fifth year, the series continues to evolve as a platform for the development of new and important dance explorations by a variety of local and international artists. Yearly these dancers are chosen to train together at Body Weather Laboratory, developing individual interpretations of a common vision. Flower of the Season has become a pilgrimage - drawing dancers, choreographers and musicians to a seasonal offering of blossoming creativity.

Flower of the Season

2010-01-31T05:58:00.006+11:00

If we consider a flower - from seed, to bud, to a revelation of petals unfurling, the scandalous prism of colour and contour, an unconditional surrender to sky, to what simply is… fully blooming, full of grace… full of eternality (forever a bloom) and upon the peak of this sublime summit, there is a still point of magnificence... then the inevitable, the moment occurs, when it cannot quite hold itself… upright, a slow wither as the sun scorches pale petals brown, dehydration, and a bending bending, the unrelenting bending, to kiss, to submit, merge, become one with earth, no longer blooming, no longer petal/ stamen/ stem/ leaf, no longer flower - we can see how fleeting life truly is. LL

Flower of the Season 2010

2010-01-26T16:32:00.027+11:00

Residency & Performance
with Oguri & Roxanne Steinburg
Bodyweather Laboratory, Los Angeles
Performance at Electric Lodge, Venice, CA
Feb 19 - 28, 2010
A series of solo dance works by 5 dancers...
Annelien Goetschalckx (Belguim); Eric Losoya (USA); Linda Luke (Australia); Kim Nakakura (USA); Cat Westwood (UK).

my performance...
working title: Still Point Turning
Inspired by T.S. Eliot's Burnt Norton

"At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest not movement. And do not call it fixity,
Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards,
Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance and there is only dance." T.S. Eliot

Itinerary

2009-12-29T11:25:00.001+11:00

Dec 30/31: Melb>Bris>LA>Tel Aviv
Jan 1-8: Tel Aviv> Jerusalem> Dead Sea
Jan 9 - Mar 3: LA - Flower of the Season residency
Jan 27 - 30: Detroit University

arrival

2009-12-10T21:27:00.000+11:00

well its finally begun a new blog lets see how this little animal mmorphs or not as the case may be....