Projects
Selection of work from the 1990s to the present.
Featured
Selection of work from the 1990s to the present.
Twilight was a multi-site outdoor performance set in the tropical city of Townsville. Created for and with the community to celebrate its natural beauty and unique socio-cultural attributes
An international program of conference presentations, performances, masterclasses and choreolab, which explored the many ways in which dance engages us in a world of digital transformations, interdisciplinary and transcultural practices and pedagogies, and evolving cultural and social identities.
A multi-site promenade performance in which the audience joins the artists in physically exploring the notion of ‘ascent’ through their upward journey from Fort A Famosa at the base of the hill to St Paul’s church at the summit.
An investigation into key issues and challenges in developing flexible guidelines lines for best practice in Australian Doctoral and Masters by Research Examination, encompassing both written and multi-modal (practice-led/based) theses.
Presented by Ausdance Queensland & the World Dance Alliance – Asia Pacific in partnership with QUT Creative Industries, Queensland Performing Arts Centre and Ausdance National. The aim of this multi-platform event was to privilege both the voice and the practices of our emerging and experienced artists and to encourage interdisciplinarity of practice and academic scholarship.
A dance-led creative project initiated during a development process in 2005. It was conceived, directed and produced by Cheryl Stock in collaboration with six interdisciplinary teams, who each responded to a detailed creative/research brief based on notions of connectivity and the investigation of the body ‘as site and in site’.
In 2002 director and producer Cheryl Stock, in collaboration with the artists, created four performance installations to inhabit the Brisbane Powerhouse. Not its massive and imposing structures but its more intimate, hidden spaces.
Unravelling re-choreographed for the Vietnam Opera Ballet Theatre, designs by Michael Pearce. Hanoi, October 2000. Originally entitled Traces of Home, music traditional Japanese and Vietnamese, Pasakorn Suwanaphan, Joseph E.E. Peters, it was first performed in 1998 at QUT Theatre, Brisbane, in Manila for the 1998 Philippines International Dance Festival and remounted in 2001 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
A dance, theatre and music collaboration which draws on Vietnamese folk opera and court styles, French colonial social dances combined with Asian pop styles and contemporary dance.
An episodic narrative of rural life celebrating the strength of women at war, drawing on Vietnamese traditional folk and operatic forms as well as contemporary techniques.
Dancing lives tells the story of lives, careers, tragedies and heroic achievements of three great legends of Australian dance. Picking out the glass: A personal journey of fragments of experience, as remembered by the body.
A brutally honest portrayal of violence against women, the abuse of power, the silent screams and the living nightmare of those whose reality is hidden from a society which prefers to keep its victims invisible.
“..in every scene of the large-cast Fuenteovejuna, it seemed as though each individual had been not only precisely placed, but meticulously choreographed..”
An affectionate tongue-in-cheek look at some of nature’s tropical eccentricities as an alternative to the cliché of swaying palms in tourist brochures.