Coffee Flight

This webpage has some of my past work and research for this new work.

There are live links to external pdfs on this webpage.

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Past work informing Coffee Flight’s methodology:

I Am Series: I Am Maggie, and I Am Carisma –This film work in 2020 and live work in 2022, respectively, celebrated the gamification of dance. Through a word game given to audience members upon ticket purchase, they experienced episodes from the imagined points of view of Maggie and Carisma, respectively. This series solidified my love for creating multiple options for the viewer and performer.

I Am Maggie won the 2021 Green Room Award for Best Dance Production; the production also received critical acclaim from Dance Informa magazine, with press coverage in The Age.

“I Am Maggie employs a palette of Western nightclub moves, East Asian gestural formality and documentary theatre to create its shifting (un)reality.” – Paul Ransom

I Am Carisma was acknowledged in Artshub as “a thought-provoking, stirring performance with so much to say about what it is to be human, yet also so much to invite and encourage.” This work captures the method of using multiple audio sources via earpieces with the dancers and the audience, creating new audio with live captioning in real time.

The excerpt above demonstrates pairing sensation with devised street dance. In the above, the dancers are working with the impetus of shucking and peeling while doing the dance technique waacking. This devised movement is then paired with the ASMR of a corn being shucked.

MaggZ (the dancer on the left in this video) is one of the performers. She is unconfirmed due to possible overseas travel dates. She and I have worked together on these methods since 2020.

Caca-Capitalismo (2020) is my multilingual audio-described film. It has been presented in Romania, USA, Australia and Aotearoa and was funded by Creative Australia. The work received critical acclaim from Witness Performance’s Olivia Muscat. This work demonstrates how I can use aesthetic access, using a creative audio description as the script for dance. I am an accidental script writer, and this is one of those successes for my methods.

“I delight in things with an unbridled sense of fun, especially those with a satirical element. So despite my not wanting to engage with anything related to the pandemic that isn’t absolutely necessary, I completely enjoyed Caca-Capitalismo. The fact that it’s a shining example of accessible, audio-described online performance plays a huge role in achieving that.”

Watch the cast perform. Their explosive power in breaking, waacking, krump and house. They are the perfect muses to unpack flavour.

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See previous practice featuring MaggZ, timestamp 25-27 minutes. In this clip, MaggZ embodies teenagehood and the flavour of Salt & Vinegar Smith’s Chips.

Here are live links that capture some of the tools, research, and information about Calere’s coffee business. The relationship with Calere is confirmed.

Live Links to Collabrator’s work:

Samar Uraziee – Three? (Archival)

Review of Outside Eye Philipa Rothfield’s Dance & The Corporeal Uncanny

Video by Apollo/Artemiz as part of L2R

Media Links:

Calere – Best Coffee nomination

Laura Angelia Blog post

Broadsheet feature on Chinese coffee

Global Times Chinese newspaper features on Yunnan coffee

Academic references:

Subjectivity, culture and the datafication of music

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