A Visceral Kind of Understanding

McKenzie, Vahri (2014). A Visceral Kind of Understanding. Dancewest, December 2014, 18-19. The work is an artists’ profile of Michael Whaites, Artistic Director of LINK, WAAPA’s graduate dance company, drawing on my case study of Whaites to show how embodied knowledge and physical sensation inform 

Freedom in Surrender

McKenzie, Vahri (2014). Freedom in surrender. Dancewest, September 2014, 22-23. The work is an artists’ profile of Claudia Alessi published in dancewest, the WA edition of the Australian Dance Council magazine. Alessi is a leading independent dancer and choreographer. It draws on my case study 

Telephone

McKenzie, Vahri (2014). Telephone performance text, inConversation. Perth, Australia: Spectrum Project Space. A cloze script designed for an interdisciplinary collaboration of four artists who tailored the script to perform personal dating advertisements in a video installation. Relationships between the characters emerge and dissolve; themes include 

Underscore Alchemy: Extending the Underscore for creative artists

McKenzie, V. (2014). Underscore Alchemy: Extending the Underscore for creative artists. Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices 6(2), 159-173. Underscore Alchemy is a research project designed to investigate how artists from disciplines outside the performing arts might engage with Nancy Stark Smith’s collaborative improvisation model, 

Extending Underscore Alchemy

McKenzie, V. (2014). Extending Underscore Alchemy. Brolga: An Australian journal about dance 39, December 2014, 35-42. ‘Underscore Alchemy’ is a research project designed to investigate how artists from disciplines outside the performing arts might engage with Nancy Stark Smith’s collaborative improvisation model, the Underscore. As