A CONTINUATION
Recently landed: A Continuation
Gracia’s written response to Week Two of the Keir Choreographic Award, especially for Fjord Review.
Returning to Dancehouse’s Sylvia Staehli Theatre for Week Two of the Keir Choreographic Award, let us begin at the end. In a live cross to Carriageworks, Sydney, the 2022 KCA international jury, Daniel Riley (Wiradjuri/Australia), Eko Supriyanto (Indonesia), Laurie Uprichard (Ireland), Lemi Ponifasio (Aotearoa/New Zealand), and Nanako Nakajima (Japan), awards the $50,000 Keir Choreographic Award to Tra Mi Dinh for her questioning of what really is an ending in her work The ___.
As Dinh describes in an interview with Ari Tampubolon: “what I’ve discovered looking at “endings” is that they’re a circular situation. Where something ends is also where something else begins.” Things unfold and become, because time is woven all around us. Time is relative, Einstein circulated. A continuation, Thích Nhất Hạnh disclosed. And so Dinh’s work about the cycle of things does not actually end. As the recipient of the KCA, this short work will generate and become a longer work, and new works, and be part of all things, like “rain is a continuation of the cloud” and “rain is transferred into grass” (No Death, No Fear, Thích Nhất Hạnh).
With the final paper votes counted in Melbourne, Phillip Keir announces that Jenni Large is the recipient of the $10,000 Peoples Choice Award for her work examining the duplexity of stability and instability in Wet Hard, and the audience applauds, whoops, clicks their fingers, and stomps their feet to both announcements in the direction of the screen.
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9th of July, 2022
Exoticism by Lucky Lartey at Week Two of the Keir Choreographic Award (image credit: Zan Wimberley)
