Project 35 - she was the smell of good mud // she is lady grey

She was the smell of good mud // she is lady grey

Paige Jansen, ethical designer and Movement Art Practice
27 – 28 July 2019
Underground Market
Property Partner: Oakwood Properties
Images: Justin Spiers

She was the smell of good mud // She is Lady Grey, is a multi-disciplinary work created by contemporary choreographer Julia Harvie and artist, garment maker Paige Jansen.

Sparked by Paige’s desire to work collaboratively and her interest in creating an intimate multidisciplinary experience for the showing of hand-made garments, together the pair collaborated and choreographed a performance piece alongside six community dancers. Through embodied means of enquiry, intuitively the work explores ideas of repetition and reconciliation of the return through movement, textiles and music.

Together they worked with three local musicians who improvised in response to the work. This collaboration is a part of Movement Art Practice’s yearly community choreograph project whom Julia Harvie is the artistic director.

A special thank you to all involved and who gave their time, especially our community dancers, Jac Coia, Megan Neil, Jenny Postles, Lizzy Guthrey, Virgina Kennard, Ella Rerekura and local musicians, Rosa Cameron, Peter McCall, Jens Moller.

She was the smell of good mud // She is Lady Grey was also performed at CoCa, Toi Morkoi Centre of Contemporary Art, Ōtautahi, 2019

Paige Jansen and Julia Harvie will be in conversation with Grace Ryder, curator and arts administrator currently based in Ōtepoti, and director of Blue Oyster Art Project Space (2017—) - Sunday 28th July. 

Otago Daily Times story