Creating hybrid performance work which experiments with new media technologies and sound.
Jambird
Jambird
Jambird is a small and easily transportable performance company determined to break traditions. Integrating concepts and techniques from dance, music and theatre, and applying them in new and unusual ways with new media technology, they create hybrid works which go beyond formal choreographic techniques.
Jambird was co-founded in 2001 by Chrissie Parrott - a highly prolific, multi-award winning dance choreographer, and Jonathan Mustard - an experienced composer, working with computer music, mixed media and visual arts.
Technology has significantly influenced the aesthetics of Jambird's creations. Rather than focusing on the cleverness of dance techniques and moves, their work often engages with the possibilities virtual imaging can have on bodies in space. Experimenting with computer generated dancers and sound, their latest work explores the unification of human and the humanoid.
Jambird's style spans a broad range of musical, choreographic, visual and theatrical presentations, and their creative process is driven by a reflexive conversation between all media deployed in each work. They use strong technological elements including: texturally dense sonic and visually responsive performance environments through to sparse, lyrical and abstract dance-theatre work, and installation and music that go beyond the usual form, but is enhanced by the excitement of being in the midst of those forms.
What did 2009 hold for Jambird?
In August 2009 Jambird toured Metadance to Korea for the ChangMu International Arts Festival and Daejon Summer Nights Dance Festival, and in November they premiered The Garden, a new performance and installation at the Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery, Fremantle.
Jambird was co-founded in 2001 by Chrissie Parrott - a highly prolific, multi-award winning dance choreographer, and Jonathan Mustard - an experienced composer, working with computer music, mixed media and visual arts.
Technology has significantly influenced the aesthetics of Jambird's creations. Rather than focusing on the cleverness of dance techniques and moves, their work often engages with the possibilities virtual imaging can have on bodies in space. Experimenting with computer generated dancers and sound, their latest work explores the unification of human and the humanoid.
Jambird's style spans a broad range of musical, choreographic, visual and theatrical presentations, and their creative process is driven by a reflexive conversation between all media deployed in each work. They use strong technological elements including: texturally dense sonic and visually responsive performance environments through to sparse, lyrical and abstract dance-theatre work, and installation and music that go beyond the usual form, but is enhanced by the excitement of being in the midst of those forms.
What did 2009 hold for Jambird?
In August 2009 Jambird toured Metadance to Korea for the ChangMu International Arts Festival and Daejon Summer Nights Dance Festival, and in November they premiered The Garden, a new performance and installation at the Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery, Fremantle.