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.

This is a live webpage, and any private Vimeo links cannot be distributed.

A carousel from the Creative Development is below. Click to enlarge.

Joining the cast from the development is Roya The Destroya. See her perform below.

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Watch Development Full Developments with Q&A:

https://vimeo.com/jonathanhomsey/coffee2026-week2

https://vimeo.com/jonathanhomsey/coffee2026-week1

Project Timeline (funding dependent):

Project Timeline

Activity Details: The activity for which we are seeking funding runs from 22 February 2027 to 1 November 2027. Please note all dates below are provisional and dependent on the outcome of local and federal grant applications.

Dates	Activity	Location	State/Country
22 Feb 27 – 04 Mar 27	Rehearsal for the March period, held part-time to accommodate cast availability	Melbourne	Vic
06 Mar 27 – 20 Mar 27	Three Saturday activations at Rose Chong Windows and Gertrude Street Yoga Studio. The Rose Chong window presentation is free, featuring at least five performances of five minutes each. The Yoga Studio performance is ticketed, with a projected budget of 30% box office return. Two performances per day, 30 minutes each.	Fitzroy	Vic
08 Mar 27 – 29 Mar 27	Two Monday performances at Lulu’s Cheesecake: a 45-minute performance paired with two filter coffee blends and Lulu’s cheesecake. Negotiations with the venue are ongoing; contingency plan is to relocate to another local bakery if required.	Collingwood	Vic
12 Apr 27 – 16 Apr 27	Filming for Scent + Art Latvia, including access roundtables, combining the episodes from the March activities into one full-length work	Melbourne	Vic
18 Jun 27 – 20 Jun 27	Exhibition of Coffee Flight as a film paired with coffee grounds at Scent + Art Latvia	Riga	Latvia
01 Jun 27 – 30 Jun 27	Pride Month activations in the St Kilda area, with a possible donation campaign if required	St Kilda West	Vic
16 Aug 27 – 31 Aug 27	Melbourne Fringe rehearsals and season advertising	Melbourne	Vic
16 Oct 27	Melbourne Fringe theatrical presentation (Saturday or Sunday, date to be confirmed). This is confirmed for Melbourne Fringe Festival and unconfirmed for Melbourne International Jazz Festival, pending funding outcomes to bring the music production to festival standard. Venue also pending a local grant for town hall subsidy.	Port Melbourne	Vic

Past work informing Coffee Flight’s methodology using the design from I Am Carisma and the access from Caca-Capitalismo:

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; it also received critical acclaim from Dance Informa magazine and 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 employs multiple audio sources via earpieces for the dancers and the audience, creating new audio with live captioning in real time.

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 scriptwriter, and this is one of those successes of my methods.

“I delight in things with an unbridled sense of fun, especially those with a satirical element. Despite 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.”

Here are live links to tools, research, and information about Calere.

Live Links to Collaborators’ work:

Samar Uraziee – Three? (Archival)

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

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