A multi-dimensional dance company whose work is located by it's fascination with artiface, contemporary art and technologie feminine.
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.
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.
In 2008 Jambird, together with Blue Moon Film and Video, was commissioned by iArts, a new initiative of the ABC, ScreenWest and the Department of Culture and the Arts to create Motel Deception (iArts). The project is a multi-platform, multi-artform work including a short dance film which was screened on ABCTV in June 2009 and an interactive website. In 2008 Jambird presented the sell out season of Metdance in Resonant Light, an evening of dance and film as part of the UWA Perth International Arts Festival. Metadance won three Ausdance WA awards in 2008: Chrissie Parrott for outstanding achievement in choreography, Joshua Mu for best male dancer and Parrott, Mustard and Nancy Jones for best design and/or composition. It was also nominated for a 2009 Australian Dance Award and toured to South Korea for the Daejeon Summer Night Dance Festival and 15th ChangMu International Arts Festival in August 2009.
More recently, Jambird presented a sell out season of The Garden at the Moore's Building Contemporary Art Gallery, Fremantle. They are currently in development for Kings and Queens, which is based on the artwork of Patrick Doherty.
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.
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.
In 2008 Jambird, together with Blue Moon Film and Video, was commissioned by iArts, a new initiative of the ABC, ScreenWest and the Department of Culture and the Arts to create Motel Deception (iArts). The project is a multi-platform, multi-artform work including a short dance film which was screened on ABCTV in June 2009 and an interactive website. In 2008 Jambird presented the sell out season of Metdance in Resonant Light, an evening of dance and film as part of the UWA Perth International Arts Festival. Metadance won three Ausdance WA awards in 2008: Chrissie Parrott for outstanding achievement in choreography, Joshua Mu for best male dancer and Parrott, Mustard and Nancy Jones for best design and/or composition. It was also nominated for a 2009 Australian Dance Award and toured to South Korea for the Daejeon Summer Night Dance Festival and 15th ChangMu International Arts Festival in August 2009.
More recently, Jambird presented a sell out season of The Garden at the Moore's Building Contemporary Art Gallery, Fremantle. They are currently in development for Kings and Queens, which is based on the artwork of Patrick Doherty.