For all those who avidly read our website, you might just be wondering what on earth has been going on in the world of Fondue with a whole year passing without an update... Well we have been working on our life experience outside of dance so that we can channel it right back into our dance and make all of us all the richer, which aphorisms aside quite literally means that these things happened in this order. 1. Our Emma gave birth to the very lovely and very pretty and awesomely clever Audrey Emma Saunders Steffen, the first of the fondue set offshoot offspring. 2. Our Elizabeth became a married lady, tying the knot and exchanging rings with the handsome Shane Carn in splendiferous style. 3. Our Jane, not wanting to be left out, gave birth to the very lovely and very pretty and awesomely clever Ada Pipilotti Martin, the second of the fondue set offshoot offspring. Absolutely no pressure on Elizabeth to complete the set with a girl of her own...
And we have also been making some art outside of our life changes, albeit in a solo way with curations, creative developments, performances and improvisations a go go.
But we are very excited to announce that we'll be getting the old gang back together in December to begin a creative development on new material in collaboration with the most fabulous Miguel Gutierrez from New York City at Campbelltown Arts Centre. And next year marks the tenth anniversary of our premiere work, Evening Magic (oh we were so much younger then), and we are going to celebrate it with our very own 'Retrospectacle' where we may or may not attempt to remember all ten years of our work together in retrospectacular style. Stay tuned for details...
We can now proudly say we are award winning, being happily awarded a Green Room Award for our show No Success Like Failure. The category was Innovation Of Form in Cabaret, which now we come to think of it is exactly what we were doing, though we might call it variety. Our big thanks to all our collaborators, Agatha Gothe Snape, Neil Simpson, Julie Anne Long, Rosalind Richards and, of course to our director, Wendy Houstoun for helping us along our path of innovation.
Yes, thats right. Right now we are managing to be in three places at the one time, including Eastern Sydney, Inner Western Sydney and Inner Western Brooklyn. Thats Sydney, NSW and Brooklyn, NY. And one of us is feeling very pleased with herself that she managed to set her eyes on Merce Cunningham in the Brooklyn parts. He was onstage. She was quite far back in the auditorium. He was wearing a rather marvellous velvet suit. She was wearing a new H&M blouse. The Fondue Set will be all the better for it. We've always loved a chance procedure.
Its hot. Its cold. Its blustery. Its calm. Or so we've been told. We've been too busy in the theatre to notice as we go about bringing about the show that is No Success Like Failure for Dance Massive...the festival that is!
Buy a ticket, come and see the show!
See you after for a drink,
Emma Jane Elizabeth xxx
Well Oh my goodness, welcome to our website and our new weekly, or is it an annual? Maybe it will end up as a daily. Who knows, lets start with a monthly, but then actually write a quarterly. So, here goes!
We were overwhelmingly excited to have gathered so many extra special guests to perform our Hoofer routine for Festival First Night at the opening of Sydney Festival 2009. With no jazzy lights and the redefining of community dance we contributed an en masse event so rocking the stage almost fell over. Luckily, it didn't and we're now busily preparing to work with 130 more hoofers (this time schoolkids) for the 2009 Program Launch at Campbelltown Arts Centre, Feb 20. After that, we'll take our dance miniscule and head to the Dance Massive in Melbourne where we will don our headpieces, dust off the pantsuits and perform the work that is by no mean feat No Success Like Failure. Oh yeah. See you there!
Dates:
2009 Program Launch,
Campbelltown Arts Centre forecourt
7pm Feb 20, 2009
Dance Massive
Mar 5 to Mar 8, 2009
www.dancemassive.com.au
