An Evening Length Performance

Costume design and construction for new work by James Batchelor and collaborators 'An Evening Length Performance'.


With An Evening-­length Performance, Australian choreographer James Batchelor reimagines the baroque ballroom as a place for queer encounters and expression. A new kind of social dance emerges that invites curiosity about the event space and its inherent theatricality. Sensitive, delicate and poised, the performers embody a shared vocabulary with echoes of their own personal movement histories. As doors open and layers are removed, the formality of the space shifts to allow moments of subtlety and intimacy.

Credits:

Choreographer: James Batchelor

With: Jacqueline Trapp, James Batchelor, George Hampton Wale, Giorgia Ohanesian Nardin

Dramaturge, Producer: Bek Berger

Music: Morgan Hickinbotham

Costume: George Hampton Wale 

Lighting: Vinny Jones

Developed with: Natalie Abbott, Arad Inbar

Guest Provocateurs: Zander Porter, Dr. Dorita Hannah

Assistant Patterncutter: Octavia Austin

Sewing: Katy Clark

George special thanks to: Zack Dibe and Hannah Sharp

Photographs: Dajana Lothert, Zander Porter and George Hampton Wale

A production by James Batchelor & Collaborations in coproduction with December Dance / Concertgebouw Brugge and Menagerie de Verre and in cooperation with SOPHIENSÆLE. Supported by the ACT Government, Creative Partnerships Australia through MATCH lab, City of Melbourne and private donors.