Tess de Quincey

TESS DE QUINCEY is a choreographer and dancer who has worked extensively in Europe, Japan and Australia as a performer, teacher and director. Based in Japan from 1985 until 1991, she was a dancer with Min Tanaka and his Mai-Juku Performance Co for 6 years which has provided the strongest influence on her performance work, based in the BODY WEATHER philosophy and methodology founded by Min and his company www.bodyweather.net.

Her solo work has toured extensively in Europe and Australia, whilst DE QUINCEY CO presents a range of dance-performance works and interactive environments in metropolitan and outback areas. She has initiated a longterm exchange entitled embrace betweeen Indian and Australian artists and is director of the TRIPLE ALICE Forum & Laboratories which brings together interdisciplinary practices of artists, scientists and thinkers in relation to the Central Desert of Australia (www.triplealice.net).

Her teaching and performance practice in different terrains–from city to desert–around the world has engendered a series of works concerned with inhabitation and the nature of place. Besides her improvisational work with musicians and visual artists, her main emphasis is on intercultural, site-specific and durational performances.

For current and most recent works please see www.DeQuinceyCo.net.

Solo Works

• 2001-02 NERVE 9 Performance Space - Sydney; Dancehouse - Melbourne; Arts Centre - Adelaide; Biennale de la danse - Paris
• 2005 NERVE 9, Mobile States Tour: PICA Perth Institute of Contemporary Art; Salamanca Theatre, Hobart; Performance Space, Sydney; Arts House, Melbourne; Powerhouse, Brisbane; Darwin Entertainment Centre

De Quincey / Lynch Partnership
Performance productions and collaborations with sculptor/dancer Stuart Lynch (selected)

1996

• Compression 100 Sydney, 169 performances & collaborations, Sydney
• Epilogue to Compression for 5 performers, 4th Int. "Dancin' City" Festival, Copenhagen
• Artaud performance for 3, collab. with Thomas Hejlesen, Institut for Teatervidenskab, Copenhagen University
• The Most Black River choreography for 4 dancers, Torpedohallen - Copenhagen; Bohuslän - Sweden
• Week 43: Butoh–A European Tradition Laboratory & Seminar with Katherina Bakatsaki, Christine Quoiraud & Frank van de Ven, Department of Dance Æsthetics and History, Copenhagen University; Performance at Borups Højskole
  Paradance 37 + Document, parallel solos, Pårup Aftenskole, Odense (DK)

1997

• Butoh Product (Segments from an Inferno) Live Video Performance for 4 performers & 3 guests, Antistatic Festival, Sydney
• Segments from an Inferno 6-hour performance installation for 4 dancers, writer & theorists, Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney
• Solo3 + Inferno2 + The Tinsel Devils Artspace, Sydney
  1998

1998

• 24-Hr Performance for 9 performers, dir. Stuart Lynch, Artspace Off-site Event, Sydney
• Identity Revisited Brændstof Festival, Copenhagen

1999

• Butoh Product no.5 & Fuck Trilogy for 3 performers, video Stuart Lynch, Taboo Parlour, The Performance Space, Sydney
• 24-Hr Performance for 12 performers, dir. Stuart Lynch, Artspace, Sydney

Collaborative Performances &/or Short Pieces
1998

• Butoh Product no.1, Ausdance National Conference, Canberra
  StarMist, collab. w. composer Ian Fredericks, Watt ‘98 Music Festival, Sydney

1999

• Butoh Product no.2–Nerve, collaboration with sound artist Amanda Stewart, Antistatic Dance Festival, Sydney
• Triple Alice 1, collaboration with 22 interdisciplinary artists & scientists, Central Desert, Australia
• Walk solo response to Passage installation by Kim Mahood, Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney
• Country 1, collaboration with poet Martin Harrison & sculptor Kim Mahood, Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney

2000

• [ ], collaboration with installation artist Pam Lofts, Alice Springs, Australia
• Triple Alice 2, collaboration with 15 interdisciplinary artists, Central Desert, Australia

2001

• Ancestral Massage–Archaeological Incantations, for Scrapbook ‘Live’, Performance Space, Sydney
• Triple Alice 3, collaboration with 26 interdisciplinary artists & scientists, Central Desert, Australia

2002-2003

• Ongoing Improvisations with musician Jim Denley as part of ‘Rushing for the Sloth, Omeo Dance Studio, Sydney

2004

• Breath with musician Jim Denley site-specific improvisations on harbour, Copenhagen International Theatre Festival

2005

• Bugger We with Stuart Grant, Art Gallery of NSW, for Poetics of Australian Space Conference (arr. University of Sydney)
• 72 PAGES–Notes to a Journey 15-minute solo piece for danish intern Diana Knudsen, performed Darwin, Alice Springs, Sydney

2006

• Premonition 1 improvisation with musician Jim Denley & vocalist Ami Yoshida, Plan B, Tokyo
• Premonition 2 improvisation with musician Jim Denley, Pelt Gallery, Sydney
• PULSE duet with academic Stuart Grant, Graffitti Tunnel, ADSA Conference. University of Sydney
• embrace: GUILT FRAME duet with Peter Snow, ADSA Conference, University of Sydney; Institute of Post Colonial Studies, University of Melbourne
• Impro-Lab @ Club Zho with musician Jim Denley, vocalist Amanda Stewart, video artist Samuel James