The Substation/ Artist/Alisdair Macindoe & Alison Currie/
Alisdair Macindoe and Alison Currie are dynamic co-directors whose creations chart new territory in contemporary dance, weaving themes of technology, climate, consumerism, and the ever-shifting relationship between objects and bodies. Their work fuses Macindoe’s multidisciplinary expertise in dance, sound, and coding with Currie’s practice of converging visual art and performance, whilst challenging our collective social conscience.
ALISON CURRIE
Alison Currie is based between Meanjin/Brisbane and Tarntanya/Adelaide . After 10 years predominately working at the nexus of visual arts and dance, a Research Masters in Choreography and Performance from University of Roehampton, UK in 2015 enabled Currie to deepen her core investigation into object and subject in performance.
This led to significant creations Concrete Impermanence, I can relate (Carriageworks), and Of All Things commissioned and performed by ADT. As well as several collaborative works including Somewhere, Everywhere, Nowhere, co-directed and performed with Yui Kawaguchi, 2020 Keir Award Finalist De-Limit co-directed with David Cross, and Alisdair Macindoe and Currie’s first co-directed creation Progress Report.
An ongoing practice with Ade Suharto, beginning in 2021, has led to an iterative series of performance moments entitled Maintain, Rest, Value (2023-ongoing).
Currie is the Pre-Professional Program Director at Australasian Dance Collective.
ALISDAIR MACINDOE
Alisdair Macindoe is a multidisciplinary choreographer based in Naarm/Melbourne, whose creative practice encompasses dance, sound, and technology. His recent works explore technology, climate change, and death, and have featured in Now or Never Festival at Arts Centre Melbourne, FRAME Biennale of Dance at The Substation, Brisbane Festival at QPAC, Unwrapped at Sydney Opera House and PIECES at UMAC.
As a performer and sound designer, Macindoe has collaborated with notable choreographers including Lucy Guerin, Antony Hamilton, and Stephanie Lake, touring over 50 cities worldwide. Macindoe has received six Melbourne Greenroom awards, an Australian Helpmann Award, and a New York Bessie Award. He was the 2019 Resident Director for Lucy Guerin Inc, a 2020-21 Sidney Myer Foundation Fellow, and a 2022Chloe Munro Mid-Career Fellowship recipient
IN DEVELOPMENT
Building on the success of their previous collaboration, Progress Report, presented at The Substation during Frame Festival 2023, Currie and Macindoe are developing a new work Multi-Solo.
Multi-Solo is an experimental contemporary performance work, exploring the age of narcissism, self-centred philosophy, and genius mythologies, in a choreo-situational social metaphor where four performers do the same solo at the same time on the same stage.
MULTI-SOLO TEAM
Co-direction, Choreography, Concept, Writing: Alison Currie & Alisdair Macindoe
Performers/co-choreographers: Geoffrey Watson, Rachel Coulson, Raina Peterson, Kyall Shanks, Alisdair Macindoe
Sound Design: Alisdair Macindoe
Producers: Penelope Leishman & Seb Calabretto, Insite Arts
SUPPORTERS
Multi-Solo has received support from:
Creative Australia
Arts South Australia
Insite Arts,
Chloe Munro Fellowship
Dance north
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