Maintain. Rest. Value.

inDevelopment Project

Maintain. Rest. Value. is an episodic choreographic project that stems from an ongoing shared practice between established choreographers, Ade Suharto and Alison Currie.

At each location the artists offer participatory actions of maintenance, rest, and value, and document the process as their investigation accumulates over time and places.

Created By
Alison Currie
AND
Ade Suharto

Ade & Alison are developing a format for an episodic body of work that is responsive to location and community. Each iteration sees the work replicated with content accumulated at each site. The title 'Maintain, Rest, Value' represents the qualities imbued through their shared studio practice, and how they connect with locations and people who use/d those spaces. 


Maintain. Rest. Value. will be presented in chapters:


CAKED 

Dance Hub SA, Fowler’s Lion Arts, Adelaide | August 2023


BREAD & ROSES

Waterside Workers Hall, Port Adelaide for Adhocracy | September 2023


TIME & SPACE 

Parndo Yerta/Charles Cane Reserve, Prospect | TBC


ROOM REHEARSING 

inSPACE Adelaide | April, 2024


This model sees Ade & Alison maintain and value a site (e.g. room, building, park), another artist’s work (e.g. written accounts, photographs and/or public art work on location) and their own dance practice. 

At each location, they share dance with a local audience and offer participation in actions of maintenance, rest and value. Processes and performances are documented at each site for presentation at the next, so that the history of the project is presented as part of each event and accumulates over time.


Ade & Alison's process takes time to distill the essence of the work and identify a model to recreate the work in a site responsive way. They are now ready to implement and share the values they have been developing with the public, inviting the community to feel a sense of ownership, lineage, responsibility and care over the shared public spaces.


Media

THE MELBOURNE CRITIQUE

“Choreographer Alison Currie is masterful, her vision is reflective and does not force itself.”

GRACE LOWRY

Credits

Created By
Alison Currie
Ade Suharto
Dancers and Choreographic Collaborators | ROOM REHEARSING
Tammy Arjona
Georgia Goodwin
Jasmine Williamson-Gray
Abbey Harby
Rachel McKenna
Kála Melegh-Higginson
Sound Recording & Operator | ROOM REHEARSING
Sascha Budimski

Supporters

Contact

Producer
Penelope Leishman → Email