Tina Evans was the first dance artist
ever selected for an Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship. From
this spectacular experience she has
created Polarity, a live performance that explores the dynamic movement and extreme nature of Antarctic
ice.
Sailing to Antarctica from Hobart on Australia’s icebreaker ship the Aurora Australis, Evans visited Davis and Mawson stations in 2010. Exceptional highlights of her trip include being lowered into an ice crevasse, sleeping outside in a bivvy bag, helicopter flights to Platcha Hut, an iceberg cruise on a zodiac boat and experiencing sheer silence on the ice plateau.
While there she met Melbourne sound artist Philip Samartzis, another Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship recipient. The sounds he recorded will be a part of Polarity.
Since returning from Antarctica Evans has worked with a group of talented dancers exploring Antarctic ice in the studio, in swimming pools and with blocks of ice.
Polarity is being presented as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival. The venue is the car park roof of Federation Square.
Tina Evans graduated from Dance at the WA Academy of Performing Arts in 2003 and has since worked independently in dance, theatre and film.
View the trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7Ea19HVEOU
WHERE: Car Park Roof - Federation Square
Cnr Flinders & Swanston Sts, Melbourne.
DATES: 5-8 Oct
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