U R G E + C H O I C E S

<body> <div align="CENTER"> <body bgcolor="#000000" link="#ff66ff" text="#ff6600" vlink="#00cc00"> <p align="CENTER"> <table width="424" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="10" height="373"> <tr> <td width="138" rowspan="2" valign="TOP"> <p><img src="http://www.kickarts.org.au/archive/urge/img_home/TITLE.gif" align="BOTTOM"><font size="-2" face="helvetica,arial">welcome to 'urge' interactive cybersite. Here you will find information about a performance / dance project developed in Australia by Leah Grycewicz and her collaborators. This site will be/has been maintained throughout 1998 with further developments and documentation uploaded regularly. If you have comments please feel free to email our producer : <a href="mailto:leahjet@yahoo.com">connect here</a><br> <br> or just make a selection here:<br> </font><font size="-1" face="helvetica,arial"><a href="#description">performance description</a></font><br> <font size="-1" face="helvetica,arial"><a href="#artists">artists</a></font><br> <font size="-1" face="helvetica,arial"><a href="http://www.kickarts.org.au/archive/urge/castFSET.html">interactive artist index</a></font><br> <font size="-1"><a href="#resources">resources<br> </a><a href="http://www.kickarts.org.au/archive/urge/urgenav1.html" target="_parent">reviews</a></font></p> <p>& <font size="-2" face="helvetica,arial">(these still under construction so call back soon)<br> </font><font color="#FF0000" size="-2" face="helvetica,arial">artists statements<br> quicktime download<br> documentation</font> <p align="CENTER"> </td> <td valign="TOP" align="RIGHT" bgcolor="#00cc00" width="279%"> <p align="CENTER"> <img src="http://www.kickarts.org.au/archive/urge/img_home/UrgeTitle.gif" align="BOTTOM"></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="126" bgcolor="#00cc00"> <p><img src="http://www.kickarts.org.au/archive/urge/img_home/lgreen.gif" align="LEFT" border="0" alt="Green Image"><br> </p> <p><font color="#330099" face="helvetica,arial">urge... site- specific performance work seeks to blur the edges between dancer and musician, movement and sound, light and media what is the content? ever shifting, this is live......</font></td> </tr> </table> </p> <p align="CENTER"> <table width="501" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" height="839"> <tr> <td width="114" valign="TOP" height="838"> <p> <img src="http://www.kickarts.org.au/archive/urge/img_home/flower.gif" width="100" height="105" align="BOTTOM" naturalsizeflag="3" alt="Ladder Image"></p> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <p><font size="-2" font="helvetica,arial">find out more about each artist through our <a href="http://www.kickarts.org.au/archive/urge/castFSET.html" target="_parent">interactive index</a> : just click on any of these faces.</font></p> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <p><a name="resources"></a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><font size="-2">look for more information about contemporary performance projects through the<br> </font><font size="-2" face="helvetica,arial"> <p align="CENTER">KickArts Collective <a href="http://www.kickarts.org.au/archive/baggage.html" target="_parent"><img src="http://www.kickarts.org.au/archive/urge/img_home/small.gif" border="0" alt="Baggage"></a> <p></font></td> <td width="322" valign="TOP"> <p><a name="description"></a><font color="#FFFFFF" face="helvetica,arial">Urge is a cutting-edge, multi-media ballet blurring the edges between dancer & musician, movement & sound, light & media. Urge premiered in Cairns at the Tanks Art Centre on Thursday 12 through to Saturday 14 of February and then toured to the The Synagogue @Adelaide from March 2 -5 1998<br> The time has been: Leah Grycewicz brings together Rebecca Youdell, Russell Milledge and Rigel Best with international musician/composers Stevie Wishart, Jim Denley and creative consutltant Anny Fodor. Urge works, are site-specific and seek to locate themselves in diverse archictectural spaces. In Cairns the Tanks Art Centre provides a moody site of concrete proportions, in Adelaide an old Synagogue inferred a space for sacred intentions.<br> Urge intends to break apart the human placement of time, space and choice, through such instruments as violin, hurdy-gurdy, double bass, wind instruments, voice and electronics. The dancers collide butoh dance with ballet amongst media projections, luminous screens, neon light, suspended ladder that bar there, the stairs, the doorway ...your peering eyes...</font></p> <p><a name="artists"></a></p> <p><font color="#FFFFFF" face="helvetica,arial">The Artists:</font> <table width="309" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" height="41"> <tr> <td width="100%" height="40"><a href="http://www.kickarts.org.au/archive/urge/leahbio.html" target="_parent"><img src="http://www.kickarts.org.au/archive/urge/Img_cast/leah.gif" align="BOTTOM" alt="Leah" border="0"></a> <a href="http://www.kickarts.org.au/archive/urge/rebeccabio.html" target="_parent"><img src="http://www.kickarts.org.au/archive/urge/Img_cast/rebecca.gif" align="BOTTOM" alt="rebecca" border="0"></a> <a href="http://www.kickarts.org.au/archive/urge/russellbio.html" target="_parent"><img src="http://www.kickarts.org.au/archive/urge/Img_cast/russell.gif" align="BOTTOM" alt="russell" border="0"></a> <a href="http://www.kickarts.org.au/archive/urge/steviebio.html" target="_parent"><img src="http://www.kickarts.org.au/archive/urge/Img_cast/stevie.gif" align="BOTTOM" alt="stevie" border="0"></a> <a href="http://www.kickarts.org.au/archive/urge/rigelbio.html" target="_parent"><img src="http://www.kickarts.org.au/archive/urge/Img_cast/rigel.gif" align="BOTTOM" border="0" alt="rigel"></a> <a href="http://www.kickarts.org.au/archive/urge/jimbio.html" target="_parent"><img src="http://www.kickarts.org.au/archive/urge/Img_cast/jim.gif" align="BOTTOM" alt="jim" border="0"></a></td> </tr> </table> <font color="#FFFFFF" face="helvetica,arial">Leah Grycewicz weaves the Urge together with her usual flair and physical presence.<br> Rebecca Youdell - a metamorphic ballerina, 5ft tall in real life 12ft tall on stage.<br> Russell Milledge- hybrid artist fusing cyber art with performance.<br> Rigel Best - double bassist extraordinaire.<br> Stevie Wishart - 14th Century art meets 21st Century technologies, composer and performer<br> Jim Denley - resonates vocal breath gestures</font></p> <p><img src="http://www.kickarts.org.au/archive/urge/Img_cast/anny.gif" align="BOTTOM" alt="annie" border="0"> <font color="#FFFFFF" face="helvetica,arial">Anny Fodor - creative consultant, present to see, hear and shape.</font></p> <p><img src="http://www.kickarts.org.au/archive/urge/Img_cast/tech.gif" align="BOTTOM" alt="simon" border="0"> <font color="#FFFFFF" face="helvetica,arial">Simon Tait - visual artist, Kickarts vice-chair and technician for urge</font><img src="http://www.kickarts.org.au/archive/urge/img_home/ryellow.gif" align="RIGHT" alt="Urge Ladder" border="0"></p> <p><font color="#FFFFFF" face="helvetica,arial">An unforgettable experience a unique evening of dance, sound, light and moods. For more information call KickArts on (07) 4051 2234 or 0414 25633. This project is sponsored by the Australia Council for the Arts, </font><a href="http://www.kickarts.org.au/">KickArts Collective</a><font color="#FFFFFF" face="helvetica,arial"> and The Arts Office.</font></p> <p></p> <p><a href="#description"><font size="-1" face="helvetica,arial">performance description</font></a> | <font size="-1" face="helvetica,arial"><a href="#artists">artists</a></font> | <font size="-1" face="helvetica,arial"><a href="http://www.kickarts.org.au/archive/urge/castFSET.html">interactive artist index</a></font> | <font size="-1"><a href="#resources">resources</a></font></td> <td width="64" valign="TOP" align="RIGHT"> <p align="LEFT"><img src="http://www.kickarts.org.au/archive/urge/img_home/jred.gif" align="BOTTOM" alt="Jim Denley Image"></td> </tr> </table> <tr> <td><br> <br> <br> <br> <p align="CENTER"><font color="#FF0000" size="-2" face="helvetica,arial">Creative Producer</font> <font color="#FF0000" size="-2" face="helvetica,arial">grrr grycewicz</font> <font color="#FF0000" size="-2" face="helvetica,arial">connect:by<a href="mailto:leahjet@yahoo.com">email</a><br> </font><font color="#FF0000" size="+1">©</font><font color="#FF0000" size="-2" face="helvetica,arial">opyright</font>   <font color="#FF0000" size="-2" face="helvetica,arial">remains with the artists. photography by Hiedrun Lohr , Glen O'Malley & Andrew Martin<br> cybersite construction:<a href="http://www.ozemail.com.au/%7eend">Russell Milledge</a></font> <font color="#FF0000" size="+2">1998</font><font size="-2" face="helvetica,arial">, at <a href="http://www.kickarts.org.au/">Kick Arts Collective Inc.</a> additional assistance by Werner Burger.</font> <tr> <td></td> </tr> </body>